Author: Steven Sahiounie

North Korea has boosted its ballistic missile program with a new secret facility, according to a Washington-based think tank being cited by the media. The scary story follows now-debunked rumors that Kim Jong-un had died. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has claimed that commercial satellite imagery shows a building near Pyongyang International Airport has “the capacity” to store North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which experts believe are capable of reaching the United States. Construction on the facility purportedly began in 2016, and includes an “unusually large covered rail terminal building,” according to the think tank. The facility is also…

On Wednesday, the foreign jihadists in northwestern Syria dismantled and looted the Zayzoun Thermal Station. According to a field source, the jihadists of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) had brought engineering machinery and equipment this morning to the town of Zayzoun in the northwestern countryside of Hama, and began to dismantle the rest of the thermal power station to generate electricity. The source added that the dismantling process comes after the decline in the funding of the TIP militants in the region who sought to steal electrical transformers and agricultural crops for civilians, and sold them to traders who left…

The spokesman for the coalition forces in Yemen, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, announced that the Ansarallah (Houthis) forces fired two ballistic missiles from Sana’a on Tuesday morning. Al-Maliki stated that the first missile fell after a distance of 121 km in the Amran Governorate, and the second missile fell after a distance of 148 km in the Saada Governorate. Houthi continue the violation of international humanitarian law by launching ballistic missiles and their indiscriminate missiles fell on civilians as well as population gatherings, which threatens the lives of hundreds of civilians,” he said. “These hostilities and launches using ballistic missiles represent…

A new video has been released showing the destruction of two Turkish-supplied bulldozers in the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate. The bulldozers, which were likely operated by the Turkish-backed militants, are used to dig trenches along the front-lines with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA). In the video shared on social media and YouTube, the viewer can see the bulldozers inflamed after the Syrian Arab Army destroyed the equipment near the city of Saraqib in eastern Idlib. The Syrian Arab Army has become increasingly aggressive in the Idlib Governorate, as they have warned the militant forces that they will be…

“Israel” will be leasing reconnaissance drones to Greece for the protection of borders under a three-year agreement signed on Wednesday by the two countries’ respective ministries of defence, the Israeli Defence Ministry said in a press release. This agreement is the first one ever signed between the defence ministries of Israel and Greece. Due to the coronavirus-related restrictions, it was signed electronically. “Under the agreement, the Israeli Ministry of Defense will provide Greece with an IAI Heron unmanned aerial vehicle system in its offshore configuration for three years with the possibility of purchasing the system after the completion of the…

Tensions have been running high between one militant faction and the Turkish Armed Forces in northern Syria, especially after the group refused to send any more fighters to Libya. A source close to the Ahrar al-Sharqiyah organization confirmed to Sputnik Arabic that it had taken place because of the differences that broke out against the background of their refusal to send their fighters to Libya, in addition to the internal clashes between them on a regional and ethnic basis. Collective Defection The Sputnik correspondent in the Al-Hasakah Governorate said that several military brigades belonging to the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad group…

In May 2019, the US Commerce Department blacklisted Huawei, restricting sales of US goods and technology to the Chinese company. The US Department of Commerce appears poised to sign on to a new rule which, if adopted, would essentially allow US companies to work with Chinese tech giant Huawei on working out standards for the next-generation 5G networks. This move comes about a year after the Commerce Department blacklisted Huawei, placing it on their “entity list”, restricting sales of US goods and technology to the latter and leading engineers in some US tech companies to stop working with the Chinese…

After Prime Minister Boris Johnson allowed Huawei to build “non-core” parts of the UK’s 5G networks, the US has ramped up pressure on the country to reconsider, claiming the Chinese firm posed a security hazard, with Donald Trump previously suggesting that future intelligence-sharing with America’s “Five Eyes” allies could be at risk. US Republican senators are seeking to use legislation to block the stationing of two squadrons of F-35A Lightning II aircraft in the UK, scheduled for next year, over its decision to grant China’s Huawei access to the country’s 5G network, according to The Telegraph. The move, which is being led…

According to the Iraqi army, the attack has caused no casualties. It follows a series of rocket attacks on oil sites in Iraq, one belonging to a Chinese oil company and another to an American company. Three Katyusha rockets fell near Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday morning, the Iraqi military said in a statement. The rockets were reportedly launched toward the military part of the airport, causing no casualties but damaging the prison guards’ cafeteria and a water tank. The military published photos of the rocket launcher with a timer system it said was found in Baghdad’s al-Bakriya neighborhood, located north-east…

In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an address to the nation via a video conference on the situation around the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, stressing that self-isolation measures should be extended until at least 11 May. In a live video, Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding an online meeting with the government on the implementation of previously-adopted novel coronavirus (COVID-19) response measures and is set to discuss recommendations on the easing of the self-isolation regime. Russia’s overall number of coronavirus cases has topped 155,000, while the death toll is over 1,450. More than…