Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Iraqi intelligence announced on Saturday that it had seized the main storage for the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) explosives in the Al-Anbar Governorate. The intelligence agency said in a statement obtained by Sputnik Arabic that its detachments represented by the Anbar Intelligence Directorate in the Ministry of Interior have seized the main storage of ammunition and explosive materials for the terrorist organization in between the districts of Heet and Kbisa. The agency noted that ISIS fighters were intending to use the warehouse to carry out terrorist operations in the districts (Heet, Fallujah and Ramadi) within the Anbar Governorate. Furthermore, they…

sources reported that the Turkish-backed “Sultan Murad” faction had seized private properties and shops in the city of Ras al-Ain in Hasakah countryside, threatening the sons of those properties’ owner with arrest. The sources pointed out that “the shops belong to a citizen receiving treatment in Hasakah, meaning that he is not present in the city, but his sons supervise the work of these properties.” The sources also pointed out that the faction’s militants seized these properties under the pretext that the owner was absent and claiming “protection”, even though the sons were present and they were working and supervising those…

sources stated that a German gunman from the “Hurras al-Din” faction was assassinated on Monday in the city of “Jisr Al-Shughour” in Idlib countryside, after targeting him for the second time within a week. The sources pointed out that the gunman, “Abu Yunus Al Almani”, was one of the well-known figures in the city of “Jisr Al-Shughour”, and he was subjected to a failed assassination attempt two days ago by planting an explosive device in his car which he managed to escape. The sources indicated that the second assassination attempt, which killed him, was an attack carried out by two…

The source pointed out that the army forces spotted the bus on the “Khirbet al-Naqus” axis in the “Plain al-Ghab” northwest of Hama, and targeted it with a guided missile, killing 8 of the faction’s members who had Syrian nationality, in addition to wounding 8 others badly. The source stated that the clashes between Syrian army units and armed factions in Idlib countryside broke out from the other side on the axis of the village of Al-Ruwaiha, north of Maarat Al-Numan, in the southern countryside of Idlib, after the militants attempted to breach the contact lines. The areas of Idlib…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday declared the court has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories. “The Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine … extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” the ICC Judges said. “Today, Pre-Trial Chamber I of ICC decided, by the majority, that the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine, a State party to the ICC Rome Statute, extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967,” ICC said in a statement.…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Yemen has suffered through a violent war on its population by forces backed by Saudi Arabia for nearly seven years, during which 233,000 people have been killed, and has left the majority of the civilians’ dependent on aid, according to the UN. The Saudi-led Arab coalition, supported by the US government, is responsible for Yemen’s economic and humanitarian crises. To understand what might be next for Yemen, Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse reached out to Yousra Abdulmalik who is a Yemeni journalist. She covers the war in Yemen for local Yemeni media. Steven Sahiounie (SS): …

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has been forced to step up their military operations in central and eastern Syria this week, following another ambush on a passenger bus by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist group. According to a field source in the Homs Governorate, the Syrian Arab Army and Russian Armed Forces sent reinforcements to the Palmyra Triangle region, amid a new campaign to eliminate the last remnants of the Islamic State. Among the areas the Syrian and Russian reinforcements were deployed to were the Palmyra, eastern Hama, and southern Al-Raqqa regions, which were previously occupied by the Islamic State…

By:Khaled Iskef, Syrian Journalist Sources reported that 6 militants of the Turkish “Hamza Division” were killed, on Sunday afternoon, as a result of targeting a military checkpoint in the vicinity of the town of “Bza’a” in the Al-Bab area in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo. The sources pointed out that the targeting was carried out by a bombed car that exploded directly near the checkpoint on Umm Shaqif of the division, which led to its complete destruction, killing 6 militants, and wounding a number of others. The “Bza’a” bombing took place within less than an hour of the similar bombing…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will order a major review of asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border and the legal immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline policies, Reuters quotes two senior administration officials as saying. Biden on Tuesday will also create a task force to reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by Trump’s 2018 “zero-tolerance” border strategy, the officials said on a call with reporters. Overall, Biden will issue three executive orders dealing with regional migration, legal immigration, and reunifying families, the officials said. As part of…

Nangarhar, [Afghanistan] At least one border police officer was killed and two more were injured in an explosion in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, TOLO News reported citing local officials. According to the officials, the explosion took place in Surkh Rod district when a police vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED). No group including the Taliban has yet claimed responsibility for the blast. (ANI)