Author: Steven Sahiounie

A new military operation along the Quneitra-Damascus axis is looming, an army source told Al-Masdar News from the Syrian capital city on Friday.According to the source, another batch of reinforcements was dispatched from Damascus to the town of Kanaker earlier today.The source said the Syrian Army is preparing to cordon off the town and begin an attack on the remaining militants that are holed up inside.He added that the 200 some militants will be offered some terms to avoid a battle, which likely means they will be given the option to be transported to northwestern Syria.Over the last two weeks,…

The Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsron Hovhannisyan announced Friday that the Artsakh Defense Army shot down five more planes and three helicopters of the Azerbaijani military.In a statement published on his official Facebook page, the spokesman said:“The precise strikes of the Karabakh Defense Forces’ units at around 16:00 shot down five enemy aircraft and three helicopters.”No further details were released by the Armenian Ministry of Defense.The Armenian Ministry of Defense had announced earlier that two planes belonging to the Azerbaijani Air Force had been shot down.In turn, the Press Secretary for the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Shushan Stepanyan, released an…

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard unveiled its new kamikaze after a year of development, the Fars News Agency reported on Friday.The idea of ​​a suicide drone was just a suggestion made by the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guard, Major General Hossein Salami, in September 2019 and a year later, the IRGC unveiled their new weapon.“If light drones are combined with speedboats, they can hit their targets from 10 km away,” Soleimani said last year. Last week, 188 new Iranian combat drones joined the naval force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as three new classes of drones, bearing the names “Sepehr”, “Shahab…

The Armenian forces in the Karabakh region have reportedly captured an Azerbaijani tank that was abandoned near the line of contact this week.In the photos shared on social media, the tank abandoned by the Azerbaijani military appears to be a Russian-made T-90 tank.The photos show the tattered T-90 tank parked in an undisclosed area near the line of contact in the Karabakh region. The Armenian forces, also known as the Artsakh Defense Army, have captured several of the Azerbaijani military’s armored vehicles over the last five days, including some armored personnel carriers (APC).

The Armenian Ministry of Defense claimed on Friday that the Azerbaijani forces have suffered massive losses within their ranks.The losses reported by the Ministry of Defense indicated huge losses within the ranks of the Azerbaijani military, along with the destruction of a significant amount of equipment.According to the Press Secretary of the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Shush Stepanyan, the Azerbaijani military has suffered 1,750 casualties since the start of the clashes on September 27.Furthermore, the Armenian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of ten enemy helicopters, 107 drones, 205 armored vehicles, five planes, and one Smerch missile launcher.Azerbaijan has not…

The chief assistant to Iran’s foreign minister for private political affairs, Ali Asghar Khaji, issued a statement that demanded the U.S. leave Syrian territory. The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported this week that Khaji condemned the illegal U.S. presence and control of Syria’s oil fields.Khaji stressed the need for Washington to withdraw and to continue the war against terrorism until it is completely uprooted from Syrian territory .The agency indicated that Khaji’s statements came during a telephone conversation that took place with the Japanese Special Coordinator for Syrian Affairs, Akira Anju, in which the two sides reviewed the latest…

Germany will attempt to add Hezbollah on the European terrorist list, a new report indicated this week. The German Broadcasting Corporation Deutsche Welle quoted the German magazine Der Spiegel as saying that the terrorist classification only applies to the military wing of Hezbollah, but this new move will include its political party as well.“Hezbollah is a terrorist organization,” said Hans-Georg Engelke, Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry, indicating that efforts will be made during Germany’s presidency of the European Union to include the party as a whole on the terrorist bloc’s list, according to the mentioned magazine.The German Interior Minister, Horst…

On Friday morning, the Armenian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of a plane and an unmanned aircraft belonging to the Azerbaijani Air Force in Karabakh. The spokeswoman for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, said on her Facebook page:“Units of the Armenian air defense forces on the northeastern side of the contact line shot down an enemy drone and plane.”Stepanyan did not provide any details about the downing of these aircraft.She did confirm that hostilities are still ongoing in Karabakh, noting that “the enemy’s attempts to penetrate the defenses of our forces were thwarted.”In addition, officials in the Karabakh…

Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, sat down for an interview with the Russian Zevzda TV channel on Friday to discuss a number of topics, including the Russian military’s presence in Syria. During the interview, the Syrian President stressed the importance of the Russian military bases on the territory of his country, pointing out that their importance lies in ensuring security and stability in Syria and combating global terrorism.“In Syria today we are dealing with international terrorism and Russia is helping us to achieve security and stability, but after the elimination of terrorism there is another role that Russia will play at…

A U.S. military drone crashed between the positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Turkish-backed militants in the western countryside of the Al-Hasakah Governorate on Wednesday.Citing a high-ranking Syrian military source, Sputnik Arabic reported that the U.S. drone fell near the village of Dardara, which is located approximately three kilometers away from the key town of Tal Tamr in western Al-Hasakah.“The plane fell while wandering in the sky of the area separating the control of the Syrian Arab Army and the Turkish army points and the (armed Syrian opposition) militias affiliated with it,” the source said.The incident reportedly took…