Author: Steven Sahiounie

An ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Riyadh has exchanged views with Tel Aviv on importing natural gas from the occupied territories, as the two regimes speed up normalization efforts. Citing conversations with senior regional officials, former Israeli communications minister Ayoob Kara, said on Thursday that the two regimes had discussed building a pipeline that would connect Saudi Arabia to Eliat, a Red Sea resort city in the southern tip of the occupied lands, Bloomberg reported. Referring to the gas pipeline project, Kara said, “This is about mutual interest.” He also claimed that support for Palestine had begun to…

-Russian President’s Special Envoy to Syria, Head of the Russian delegation to Astana, Alexander Lavrentiev, affirmed that terrorist organizations in Idleb continue their attacks and provocations, adding this is unacceptable. “We can evaluate the outcomes of the first day of the 13th round as positive in general… we discussed the situation in Syria, particularly in the de-escalation zone of Idleb and the need for combating terrorism there,” Lavrentiev said in a press statement on the sidelines of the 13th round of Astana talks on Syria. The terrorist groups are besieging hundreds of thousands of hostages and preventing them from coming out as…

Steven Sahiounie, Middle East observer More suffering has been ordered up by the US President Trump for the innocent Syrian civilians. The end of the war was in sight, and they could begin to rebuild their lives, but the US has ordered their only source of fuel to be seized. Syria used to be energy self-sufficient, with oil and gas wells in many locations, pumping out the national needs. When the terrorists took control of the oil and gas wells, the products were sold to Turkey, and in some cases, Turkey re-sold them to Europe. The Pentagon hired the Syrian Kurds as a…

Yemen’s Ansarallah forces have unveiled a new long-range missile that is set to enter service in the next few days, Al-Masirah News reported on Friday. Dubbed the “Borkan-3”, this long-range missile has increased the military capabilities of the Ansarallah forces, who currently control a large portion of Yemen, including the capital city of Sanaa

The Syrian Arab Army has resumed their artillery strikes on the “Jaysh Al-Izza” town of Al-Zakah after the militants remained inside the demilitarized zone. According to a source near the front-lines, the shelling came in response to the Syrian Arab Army’s calls for the militants to immediately withdraw their forces from the demilitarized zone. He would add that the terrorist are not likely to abandon their posts inside the demilitarized zone, as some of these areas are important militarily. However, a short while ago, “Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham” announced that they were willing to comply the ceasefire, but warned they would…

Steven Sahiounie, Middle East observer The Syrian population residing in Syria is suffering from having barely survived eight years of war. They didn’t leave for camps in Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon, or they are those who have returned to Syria from having been in camps. They did not take a smuggler’s boat ride to Greece and did not end up in Germany with a free house, food, education, and job prospects. For one reason, or another, they are the Syrians who stayed, had hope of the war ending, and they outnumber those who left the country. They turn on the…

Four civilians were killed and 25 were injured when NATO- and Gulfies-backed terrorists bombed the al Zibdyiah neighborhood of Aleppo, on Wednesday. The murder victims were all children. At this writing, no MSM has reported on the atrocity. One might wonder if this attack is a ‘thank you’ from al Nusra Front to the imperialist members of the UN, who on 30 July, claimed to speak for Syrians, and barked support for the protection of hospitals that do not exist in Idlib. The rockets were fired from al Rashidin. This town in Aleppo governate became famous on 15 April 2017, when Qatar’s guarantee…

Sarah Abed, political analyst It’s always been about regime change. Washington’s ultimate goal in Iran for the past 40 years has been to bring down the Mullah’s leading the Islamic Republic of Iran. As much as the current administration and specifically President Donald Trump try to hide or deny it, causing the collapse of the Iranian government would be seen as an incomparable “accomplishment” for the current (and even past) administrations. Unilaterally withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 and imposing harsh sanctions, soon after, wasn’t truly meant to bring Iran back to…

The US Treasury Department has placed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, after threatening to do so for several months. Zarif is a vocal and public critic of American policy towards Iran. The Treasury Department announced the sanctions on Wednesday, after declining to blacklist the outspoken diplomat earlier this month. The move comes at a critical time for US-Iran relations, with Washington currently putting together a multinational maritime mission to protect shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf and combat “Iranian aggression.” “Javad Zarif implements the reckless agenda of Iran’s Supreme Leader, and is the regime’s  primary spokesperson around the…

Syrian Arab Army units managed to restore two strategic posts in the northern Hama countryside after fierce battles with the terrorists killing over 50 of them. Tal Meleh hill and the town of Jibeen are now clean from terror, once again, from terrorists loyal to Receb Tayeb Erdogan, the Turkish pariah, and Caliph wannabe. The terrorists killed rank under Nusra Front aka HTS (Al-Qaeda Levant), and so-called National Liberation Front, both radical terrorist groups and both are commanded by NATO member state Turkey. The terrorists carried out a counter-attack in order to retrieve the two posts and collect the bodies…