Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ten people have been killed in the Arab coalition’s airstrike in northwestern Yemen, the Houthi-run Al Masirah broadcaster reported on Sunday. The strike reportedly hit a residential building in Washhah district of Houthi-controlled Hajjah province. Women and children are among the victims. Earlier this week, the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah broadcaster reported that the Saudi-led coalition had carried out over 60 intensive airstrikes on the positions of the Shia rebel Houthi movement in four western Yemeni provinces. For over five years, Yemen has been engulfed in an armed conflict between the government forces, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, and the Houthi rebels. Despite…

Last month, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadran announced that Tehran would soon start manufacturing a new class of supersonic cruise missiles known as the Talaeey-e to complement the subsonic weapons currently in service. General Yousef Qorbani, Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force’s Airborne Division told a military conference on Sunday that his forces would be equipped with new missiles in the immediate future. “We will soon obtain missiles with a range of 20-km and 100-km”, Qorbani said, referring to fire-and-forget type and pinpoint accuracy missiles that entered service with the Airborne Division earlier this year. He also…

Screenshots posted in a video published by the Egyptian Armed Forces on Saturday showed the moment their Navy sank an enemy landing ship in the Mediterranean with one blow. During the “Decisive 2020” exercise, a frigate launched an anti-ship missile, which has a range of 124 km to 140 km. The Egyptian forces fired a Harpoon missile at the target, destroying the ship with only one projectile. The Egyptian Army announced on Saturday that the military maneuver “Decisive 2020” in the western strategic border comes in light of the sharp and rapid changes the region is going through. Brigadier Tamer…

A supply convoy heading to a U.S. military base in Iraq came under attack last night, an Iraqi security source said. “Four trucks were attacked in the Najme region between Diwaniyah and As-Samawah”, the source said. According to the security source, the trucks were carrying supplies from Basra to one of the US bases in Iraq. Unknown assailants on pickup trucks attacked the supply convoy, forcing it to stop, got the drivers out of the vehicles, and set the convoy trucks on fire. All the convoy drivers were Iraqi citizens, the source said The unknown assailants then left in an…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Ankara’s stance in Libya foiled the plans of the Libyan National Army’s commander, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. According to Erdogan, Turkey’s intervention saved the city of Tripoli from falling to the Libyan National Army and their commander Erdogan continued in his interview with the Turkish magazine that “the Government of National Accord managed to get the revolutionaries out of Tripoli in a short time and these field gains heralded peace and security in all Libyan lands. Turkey’s determined stance stifled the plans of Haftar and his supporters to occupy Tripoli.” He…

Steven Sahiounie journalist and political commentator Palestine 5 million Palestinians live under brutal ‘Israeli’ military occupation, without any human or civil rights. The call to “Free Palestine” is now over 70 years old, and the world and its leaders sit idly by without action.  Palestine is the only country on earth occupied by a foreign government.  The obstacle to a peaceful solution for both sides is the US foreign policy on the region, as the US Congress and State Department support only the Israeli side in the conflict, while Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies pump money into the various…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator There are over 40,000 Syrians living in Denmark, a nation of 5.8 million, and the Danish government is reviewing residence permits for 900 Syrian refugees from Damascus who had Temporary Protected Status (TPS). With Damascus now safe from terrorist attacks there is no reason they can’t return home.  In December 2019 Denmark became the first country to deny a Syrian asylum seeker on the basis that Syria is now safe. Recently, the Refugee Board has intervened in five cases of Syrians from Damascus, saying the area doesn’t warrant protection. The Syrian central government at…

Turkish military troops and allied militants have once again cut off drinking water supplies to about a million people living in and around the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah by stopping a border water pumping station, a report says. In an interview with Syria’s official news agency, SANA on Sunday, Director General of Hasakah Water Company Mahmoud al-Ukla said that Turkish soldiers and Ankara-baked militants stopped Alouk Water Station on Saturday evening and barred workers of the station from entering the facility. The major water station is located in the vicinity of the border town of Ra’s al-Ayn, which Turkish troops and…

Iran is planning to sue the United States over the impact that their sanctions have had on the Islamic Republic’s ability to fight the illness. According to the Fars News Agency, Iran’s Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laya Joneydi said on Saturday that her country has filed a complaint against the United States regarding the impacts of sanctions on the fight against coronavirus. Joneydi said that Iran will take the U.S. to the International Court of Justice. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States offered to help Iran fight the illenss, especially after it spread quickly through the…

The Iran-based agency “Noor News”, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran, said Israel was responsible for fire that broke out at the Natanz nuclear complex last Thursday. In the article published on Saturday, the agency said Israel had targeted the nuclear reactor as part of their campaign against the Islamic Republic. The news agency said that “despite the silence of Israeli officials as a result of the incident, media campaigns, an important part of which is directly or indirectly related to Israel, may cause consequences for Israel.” The article said that journalists and researchers…