Author: Steven Sahiounie

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator April 24, 2020, marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which was the first genocide of the 20th century. The starting date is held to be April 24, 1915, in a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire, which resulted in at least 1.5 million deaths by 1923. The Ottoman Empire is the direct predecessor of modern Turkey. The Armenians were the first nation in the world to make Christianity their official state religion. The Turks were Muslims, and this holds today. Not only Armenians were targeted…

Four Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems were able to force several Turkish F-16 warplanes to retreat from their zone of operation in Libya, the Russian publication Avia.Pro reported on Thursday. “A day earlier, it became known that on April 18, 2020, at least 16 Turkish fighters approached and partially violated Libyan airspace, intending to strike at the advancing forces of the Libyan National Army. Nonetheless, the four Pantsir-S air defense missile systems, immediately put on full alert, forced the Turkish pilots to retreat instantly, as the latter were warned of immediate firing,” the Russian publication reported. The Libyan National Army has used…

installing RT’s extension for Chrome. Never miss a story with this clean and simple app that delivers the latest headlines to you.RTLIVE searchMenu mobile facebooktwitteryoutubeinstagram HomeBusiness News The oil market crash is far from over 24 Apr, 2020 08:54 / Updated 6 hours ago A flare burns excess natural gas in the Permian Basin in Loving County, Texas, US. © Reuters / Angus Mordant 15 Follow RT onUS crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices may have steadied somewhat after a wild couple of days, but the physical market for crude is still collapsing. Energy stocks posted sharp gains on Thursday as WTI prices “surged”…

Jobless claims continued stockpiling in the US, having topped 26 million over the past five weeks. The government is working to improve stimulus measures as the pandemic continues to ravage the global economy. Boom Bust is joined by the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff, who says the US Federal Reserve is just doubling down on its failed monetary policy: “In order to prop up the market, the Fed hastened to destroy the purchasing power of the dollar.” According to Schiff, investors “should be buying gold stocks because gold and gold stocks would be the biggest beneficiaries of monetary policy.” The veteran stockbroker explains that “precious…

The Saudi-led coalition said on Friday it was extending a unilateral ceasefire in Yemen by one month to support efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. “The coalition’s command reaffirms that there is still an opportunity to focus all efforts in order to achieve a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire,” coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki was quoted as saying by the the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA). UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last month called for ceasefires in conflicts across the world to allow countries to focus on the pandemic. A two-week ceasefire announced by the coalition, which is battling the Iran-aligned Houthi group…

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar addressed the Libyan Nation. In his speech, he held the Presidential Council fully responsible for losing the sovereignty of the country to Turkish invaders and terrorists and called for the complete rejection of the Libyan Political Agreement. Below is the English translation of his entire statement: “To all the Libyan people,“Operation Dignity” was launched in 2014, and today it has become a revolution due to the pivotal changes that have led to a better future. Your Armed Forces have sacrificed everything to free your country from terrorism. This has come at a cost of hundreds martyred…

The Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) announced on April 21 that its units had carried out three new attacks on Turkish-backed militants in the northern Aleppo countryside. In an official statement, the Kurdish guerilla group claimed that six militants were killed and five others were injured in the attacks. “On April 15:Our forces detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a gathering of Turkish occupation’s mercenaries in the outskirt of the town of Kafr Nabu in Shirawa district, killing two mercenaries and injuring two others.On April 17:Our forces sniped a mercenary of the Turkish occupation in the vicinity of the town…

Turkey has suspended support to Faylaq al-Rahman, one of its proxy groups in Syria, for refusing to send militants to Libya, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on April 24. According to the UK-based monitoring group, the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA), an umbrella group for Turkish proxies, ordered Faylaq al-Rahman to prepare lists of militants willing to go fight for the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya more than two months ago. However, Faylaq al-Rahman’s commanders didn’t fulfill the order. The SNA quickly responded by halting all support for the group. “The SNA’s response was to…

heavy clashes broke out between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and ISIS remnants in the eastern countryside of Hama. According to pro-government sources, army units destroyed a vehicle of the terrorist group near Sad Abu Fayad, east of the city of Salamiyah. At least two fighters of the group were killed as a result. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that a Syrian service member was also killed in the clashes. However, this is yet to be verified. ISIS cells increased their activists in the mountainous regions of eastern Hama over the last year. The terrorists may…

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group says Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi has agreed to form a committee to probe the US assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. In a statement on Thursday, the group said the decision was taken after al-Kadhimi, currently the director of Iraq’s National Intelligence Service, requested to have a meeting with the group to explain his position on the assassination. The formation of the committee was decided during the meeting, the statement said, adding that “we requested that the work of the committee be done with complete transparency”. The US assassinated General Soleimani,…