Author: Steven Sahiounie

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,…

Syria’s UN ambassador says the Security Council has failed the Palestinian and Syrian people by not enforcing its resolutions on the Israeli occupation due to pressure from certain permanent members of the council. “The UN, due to pressure by some permanent members of the Security Council, has so far failed to enforce resolutions calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, particularly Resolutions 242, 338 and 497,” Bashar al-Ja’afari said at a UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East via video link on Thursday. Ja’afari also described the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as an integral part of…

A major human rights group has urged authorities in the English Premier League to dismiss a bid by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and allies to take over the ownership of a club, saying the controversial figure fails the very basic tests of ownership rules in the competition. The Fair/Square Projects’s recent plea is a second by a rights group to urge the dismissal of a bid by bin Salman and others to take over Newcastle United amid reports the ambitious Saudi prince is trying to use a recession caused by the new coronavirus pandemic to buy the dominant…

Washington’s plans to win a market share in the nuclear technologies sphere from Russia look strange and show that the United States is yet not aware of the new reality of the coronavirus, Russia’s permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said. “From the political point of view, the presentation of such tasks looks at least strange and shows that the US energy sector representatives have not yet understood the new reality emerging in light of the coronavirus, which, I believe, calls for cooperation instead of tough competition”, Ulyanov said. The diplomat also expressed the belief that it…

by Tim Korso The US earlier pulled the plug on its donations to the World Health Organisation citing the latter’s alleged mismanagement in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and purported conspiring with China to hide facts about the outbreak during its initial stages. The US will not take part in the launch of a new global initiative by the World Health Organisation (WHO) designed to organize the joint development of medicine against the coronavirus, a spokesman for the US mission in Geneva said. “There will be no US official participation. We look forward to learning more about this initiative in support…

On 22 April, the Iranian military said that its first military satellite Noor (Light) had been successfully placed into an orbit located 425 kilometres (624 miles) above the Earth’s surface, using a Qassed (Envoy) carrier. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doubted the launch’s compliance with UN resolutions. An Iranian satellite that was launched on 22 April is inconsistent with a United Nations Security Council resolution, the UK’s Foreign Office said in a statement. “Reports that Iran has carried out a satellite launch – using ballistic missile technology – are of significant concern and inconsistent with UN Security Council Resolution 2231”, a…