Author: Steven Sahiounie

Syrian warplanes, with help from Russia, launched a number of airstrikes over the Al-Raqqa and Homs governorates on Wednesday, as they heavily targeted the Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) positions.According to a field report from the Homs Governorate, the Syrian Air Force began the day by targeting the Islamic State positions in the Badiya Al-Sham region.The report specified airstrikes on the Sukhnah area, where the Islamic State has repeatedly launched attacks near the desert city and as far north as the Al-Raqqa Governorate.The Syrian and Russian air forces then targeted a number of Islamic State positions between Sukhnah and Al-Rusafa, inflicting heavy…

The U.S. Army tested a LIDAR robot during training in Yuma, Arizona, and the target was a Russian T-72 tank, according to the Breaking Defense online publication.These small-drone-equipped robots identified a T-72 tank using the Aided Target Recognition (ATR) algorithm, based on more than 3.5 million images of the tank.“Then the robot’s onboard Aided Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms identified another enemy, a T-72 tank. But this target was too far away for the robot’s built-in weapons to reach. So the bot uploaded the targeting data to the tactical network and – again, with human approval – called in artillery support,”…

The spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Artsron Hovhannisyan, said that Turkish F-16 fighters are flying bilaterally, over the conflict zone in Karabakh.“I do not want to talk about the number of F-16s in our region, but they fly in bilaterally,” Hovhannisyan said in a press statement today.He said that Armenia has evidence that a Turkish F-16 plane shot down an Armenian Su-25 attack plane over Armenia’s airspace yesterday. He expressed his readiness to present this evidence to the international experts.“Only the F-16 can shoot down an attack aircraft flying at such altitudes at a distance of 60 kilometers.…

A massive blast rocked the area around the line of contact in the Karabakh region on Tuesday evening, when the Armenian forces struck a column of Azerbaijani vehicles carrying ammunition.“The Artsakh Defense Army, the eastern direction; the destruction of a column of adversary vehicles with ammunition,” the Press Secretary for the Armenian Minister of Defense, Shushan Stepanyan, tweeted on Tuesday evening.In the video released, a large fire can be seen engulfing the area where the vehicles were destroyed by the Armenian forces.

The Armenian released more footage on Tuesday of the Republic of Karabakh’s forces destroying several mechanisms belonging to the Azerbaijani military in the Karabakh region.In two of the most recent videos released, the Armenian forces can be seen targeting the positions of the Azerbaijani military near the line of contact in Karabakh. The attacks by the Armenian forces managed to score several direct hits, resulting in the destruction of armored vehicles, military posts, and bases around the Karabakh region The destruction of these Azerbaijani military positions come at a time when tensions between Baku and Yerevan are at a four-year-long…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Hezbollah owns a precision missile factory near a gas company in downtown Beirut.Netanyahu’s statements came during his speech on Tuesday evening at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly.The Israeli Prime Minister warned that if this armament is not prevented, the disaster of Beirut Port will repeat.Netanyahu released pictures of homes and civilian facilities in Lebanon, in which he claimed that Hezbollah had hidden the missiles in them.Not long after Netanyahu’s speech, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah responded to the Israeli leader’s allegations.The Hezbollah leader challenged the media to head…

Onn Tuesday, the Armenian Ministry of Defense released a video of the wreckage of a helicopter belonging to the Azerbaijani Air Force in the Karabakh region.Commenting on this video, the Armenian Ministry of Defense spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan stated that the Armenian Igla air defense system shot down two Azerbaijani helicopters.In the video below, the Armenian Ministry of Defense showed the remains of an Azerbaijani helicopter that was shot down in the Karabakh region this morning. Clashes broke out in the Karabkh region on Sunday, prompting both the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces to launch several attacks over the last 72 hours.

Israel has not ruled out a preemptive strike against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a memorial service on Tuesday for those who fell in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, an Arab-Israeli military standoff.“A preemptive strike is a difficult thing to do. I know that if Iran wants to base itself in the north, we are ready to fight them. This is a direct lesson of the Yom Kippur War”, noted Netanyahu, asserting that they “will do everything in order to protect the State of Israel; we are not ruling out a preliminary strike”.The prime minister went on to…

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry threatened on Tuesday, to destroy Armenia’s S-300 missile systems, which are being transported towards Karabakh.“According to our information, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems that protect the airspace of Yerevan have been removed from combat service and are heading towards the occupied territories,” Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman Waqif Darkahli said at a press conference .He added, “We announce that it will face the fate of the Armenian army’s military equipment that was destroyed in Karabakh … The recent battles show once again that the legend of the invincible Armenian army is not based on any basis.”The Armenian…

On Tuesday, the Iranian air defenses shot down a drone near the city of Malakan in the East Azerbaijan province, amid the ongoing tension between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno Karabakh region.Military sources said on Iranian state television, “The Iranian defenses shot down the enemy drone while it penetrated the country’s airspace in the northwest part of the country in East Azerbaijan province.”The sources did not specify the identity of the drone that was shot down.On Monday, the Iranian Internal Security Forces warned Azerbaijan and Armenia that any mortar shells would fall by mistake near the Iranian border during…