Author: Steven Sahiounie

by Lilia Dergacheva President Donald Trump earlier said he would ban the wildly popular app in the country, but has apparently reconsidered, months before the presidential vote in November President Donald Trump has purportedly approved a 45-day window for the Chinese firm ByteDance to agree to sell its now popular short-video app TikTok to Microsoft Corp, according to three people familiar with the potential deal, as quoted by Reuters. The time lapse will ostensibly serve as a transition period for Microsoft to develop technology for TikTok that will be completely separate from ByteDance, one of the sources said. US officials have insisted a…

The military spokesman for the Ansarallah-aligned Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’a, posted on Twitter a video of a U.S.-supplied drone that was shot down over southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday.According to the spokesperson, the drone shot down by the Ansarallah forces was an RQ-20 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).The spokesman said: “The air defenses managed to shoot down an American reconnaissance plane (RQ-20) in the airspace of the Haradh district off Jizan with an effective weapon.” The video shows that most parts of the plane are intact, and that some damaged appeared at the front of the plane, and…

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, that it objects to what was mentioned in the navigational warning issued by Turkey regarding the deployment of a Turkish ship for seismic.Commenting on this warning, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez expressed Egypt’s objection to the interference of Point No. 8 mentioned in the navigation warning with the Egyptian exclusive economic zone.He stressed that this measure is not consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and violates the provisions of international law, “rather it constitutes a violation and an assault on Egypt’s sovereign rights in its exclusive…

On Sunday, the first Iranian fast response drone vehicle with special communications equipment based on advanced technologies was unveiled.According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the Iranian vehicle is equipped with advanced technologies, including surveillance balloons with operational capacity in all circumstances of accidents, natural disasters and crisis areas.The agency quoted by the Director General of Communications and Information Technology in the Iranian province of Qom, Syed Reza Mousavi, that this aerial vehicle was designed and produced for the first time by one of the companies for drones in the province.Mousavi said: “So far, many innovative and unique projects…

Khaled Iskef, Syrian Journalist On Wednesday July 29 , the competent security forces arrested a group of US-backed militants after they infiltrated from “Al-Tanf” area towards the Syrian Army’s points in Homs countryside. The arresting was carried out in cooperation with the residents of the region, a special source said, as they were arrested and their weapons were seized.The source pointed out that the militants belong to terrorist organizations supported by the American forces stationed in “Al-Tanf” area at the border triangle between Syria, Iraq and Jordan, and under American instructions, they infiltrated outside “Al-Tanaf” area heading west towards the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator St. Elijah Maronite Cathedral in Aleppo re-opened after years of disuse due to the severe destruction the 18th century cathedral endured during battles in the period of 2012 to 2016.  Aleppo had been Syria’s largest city and its commercial and industrial hub before the conflict which began in March 2011. Syria is a secular nation, with the pre-war population ratio standing at about 80% Sunni Muslim, and the remaining divided between Christians, Jews, and other Muslim sects. It is estimated that only 30,000 Christians remain in Aleppo, compared to a pre-war population of 180,000. …

Khaled Iskef، Journalist The joint Russian-Turkish patrol on the international “Aleppo-Lattakia” highway is cancelled for the second consecutive day, according to a field source, and the Turkish forces conducted an individual patrol from “Al-Nairab” village on the international highway to “Ain Al-Hour” area, the last point under ​​the militants’ control on the road towards Lattakia. By this, the Turkish forces are trying to secure the highway completely in anticipation of any attack by militants or planting explosive devices before the Russian forces join the patrols.According to the source, the Turkish forces were deployed extensively yesterday in the areas surrounding the…

Saint Sophia Cathedral converted to a Mosque by force Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Europe is historically a group of Christian nations, now banded together as an economic unit known as the European Union (EU). Turkey is a Muslim nation, on the edge of Europe, with a long stated goal of entering the EU, but consistently denied on the basis of religion. Turkey’s President Erdogan decided to benefit by the crisis in Syria, by using migrants flooding into Europe as a method to change the demographics to Turkey’s favor. Turkey has been sending boat loads of asylum seekers and…

Police Department of Portland, a city in the US west coast Oregon state where public unrest has been on for almost two months, said in a press release on Sunday they had declared a fresh wave of protests overnight a riot and conducted arrests, with no specific number provided. “Portland Police declared a riot based on the conduct of people in the crowd and gave repeated warnings that anyone who remained may be subject to arrest or citation and may be subject to force including impact weapons or tear gas”, the press release read, adding that police followed to disperse…

An unknown group launched an attack on the small town of Al-Seen in the Al-Salamiyeh countryside of Hama last night.According to reports, the group, which is suspected to be the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh), attacked Al-Seen last night, killing one person and the town’s cattle before burning the area down.Furthermore, there were reports that the group also stole vehicles and supplies from the townspeople before fleeing to an unknown area.Armed groups carry out attacks from time to time in the Hama countryside, which has since prompted the redeployment of troops from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and National Defense Forces (NDF).ISIS…