Author: Steven Sahiounie

The south Yemeni secessionist movement seeks to undo the Yemeni unification of 1990 and restore a separate independent state of South Yemen. Separatists from the Southern Transitional Council in southern Yemen took control of 64 billion Yemeni riyals (equivalent to roughly $255.5 million US) on Saturday, with a convoy carrying the cash intended for the central bank in Aden commandeered by militia and redirected to a nearby military base. In a statement cited by Reuters, the STC, which controls Aden, called the action “part of several measures to end sources of corruption and to prevent the use of public money…

The Palestinian government cannot pay salaries to its employees, as it did not receive tax deductions from Israel, spokesman Ibrahim Milhim said on Sunday. “The government did not receive tax deductions from Israel. The Palestinian leadership will not be subject to Israeli blackmail. When the necessary funds for salary payment appear in the Ministry of Finance, then the government will pay all salaries”, Milhim said at a press conference. Last week, Milhim said that the Palestinian government refused to accept Israeli monthly tax transfers for goods produced within its territory, as the country cut its ties with Israel. The spokesman…

Russian Tor air defence missile systems have downed more than 45 drones used by militants in Syria, the chief of the Russian air defence forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov, said. “Since the start of combat duty, the calculations of the Tor combat vehicles targeted over 45 UAVs crafted by militants”, Leonov said in an interview with the Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence) magazine. According to Leonov, the short-range Tor air defence systems of various modifications are used together with the S-400 and Pantsir-S systems in protecting various facilities in Syria. The Russian armed forces will be supplied with the Tor-M2 air…

Although Sheikh Abu Khalil Al Tamimi, an influential religious figure from the West Bank, strives for a two-state solution, he says he realises it is impractical, and therefore calls on the Israeli authorities to establish one state, where Palestinians and Israelis would share equal rights and responsibilities. Israel’s civil administration is gearing up for the possibility of conducting a population census for Palestinians living in Area C of the West Bank to determine their exact number and avoid a situation where the extension of the Jewish state’s sovereignty, planned for early July, would attract an influx of new residents, who…

As George Floyd protests continue to rage on, another black man was killed by a white cop in Atlanta in what prosecutors suggested might have been an unnecessary shooting. The hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the website of the Atlanta Police Department in the wake of the killing of Rayshard Brooks. Atlanta media report that the department’s website went offline for three hours on Sunday morning, local time, but was later recovered. It appears to be unavailable again, as of 1:00 a.m. on Monday. Anonymous, who have organised cyberattacks on the police in the past, said they targeted…

By:shahzada Rahim, international scholar Tomorrow, people all across Russia will celebrate the Russia day with both enthusiasm and repentance. Basically, the Russian people celebrate the Russia day to honor the establishment of modern day Russia after the disintegration of Soviet Union. It was on June 12, 1990, when the Russian Federation emerged as the successor state out of the USSR.  Similarly, a year later on June 12, 1991 the first presidential elections were held in Russia, in which Boris Yeltsin became as the first president of the Russian Federation. Perhaps, the day is historical for every Russian, who celebrate it…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator United States Special Envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, announced on Sunday that Washington had offered Syria a proposal to end the US sanctions. The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry in Damascus said that the statements by James Jeffrey constitute a clear admission by the Trump administration of it being directly responsible for the suffering of Syrians.  The Syrians see the increasing sanctions as economic-warfare after the US failure to bring about ‘regime change’, by using terrorists supported by the CIA. Damascus declares the sanctions violate human rights and international law as they affect the Syrian…

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a counter-offensive against the group of jihadists that stormed their positions in the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate on Monday. According to a field source nearby, the Syrian Arab Army launched a counter-offensive near the town of Tanjara in the Al-Ghaab Plain following a brief infiltration by the Hurras Al-Deen group in the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate. The source said the arrival of reinforcements, coupled with the participation of the Russian Air Force, helped drive back the jihadist rebels. The Russian Reconciliation Center said the Syrian Army units at the Tanjara…

The Egyptian Armed Forces announced that the Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces, Mohamed Farid, met a number of commanders, officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers in the western military region near the Libyan border. Lt. Gen. Mohamed Farid, Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces, conveyed a message to the forces from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Mohamed Zaki, to the men of the Western Military Region. The Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces has praised the protectors of the western border and their efforts in carrying out their tasks assigned to them, to confront criminal elements, smuggling…

The Iranian authorities announced on Tuesday, the arrest of six people so far in the case of shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane in January. “The judiciary of the Armed Forces has so far arrested six people as part of investigations into the incident of the downing of the Ukrainian plane,” the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported, quoting the judiciary spokesman, Gholam Hussein Ismaili. They continued: “Concerning the file of the Ukrainian plane, teams of experts conducted investigations about the accident,” stressing that the families of the victims can submit complaints to the judiciary. Ismaili explained that “70 families…