Author: Steven Sahiounie

Syrian army units have repelled a massive attack launched by terrorist groups at Zakat-Hasraya axis in the northern countryside of Hama and have inflicted heavy losses upon them . Terrorist groups, holed up in the northern countryside of Hama, sent yesterday at 11:00 pm a huge number of armed gunmen and car bombs to launch an attack at Zakat-Hasraya axis, so the army units positioned there withdrew from some of their posts .” The source stressed that the terrorists’ attack was repelled and the army units carried out a counter-attack and returned to their posts after inflicting a heavy toll…

Sarah Abed, independent journalist and analyst In what would be Turkey’s third cross-border military operation in Syria since the war began, in as many years, Erdogan announced on Sunday that he would be launching a military operation east of the Euphrates river, to push back Kurdish militias on Turkey’s southern border. Although Erdogan did not set a timeframe, preparations have been underway for well over a month. Increased deployment of Turkish military forces along with weaponry, and tanks, etc. have been reported by various sources, on the Turkish side of the southern border with Syria. Preparations are also underway by Kurdish militias, to counter…

By: Lilly Martin  the ceasefire In Syria has been broken by the Al Qaeda terrorists in Idlib, who attacked the Hmeimim Airbase , which injured 4 civilians living nearby. They also attacked using missiles area north of Hama. There is loss of life. The ceasefire was supposed to remove the missiles and heavy weapons from Al Qaeda, which Turkey had agreed upon. We were all hopeful, but now the ceasefire is broken, and our side has no alternative but to bombard Idlib. Not all the people inside Idlib are terrorists, but they are all under the control of Al Qaeda…

The Israeli occupation authorities at dawn arrested ten Palestinians in the West Bank including a child and a girl. Palestinian WAFAA Agency said that the occupation forces broke into town of Issawiya in occupied Jerusalem and arrested seven Palestinians including a child and a girl, in addition to storming into Tulkarem City and arresting three young men . For the second month in a row, the occupation authorities continue their aggression against Issawiya town after quelling a stand held in the town in rejection of the arbitrary practices against the locals of the town last June as a Palestinian was…

Terrorist groups targeted on Monday Hmeimim Airbase in Lattakia countryside with rocket shells. A military source told the Syrian media that at 3:30 PM, terrorist groups targeted Hmeimim Airbase with a number of rocket shells which fell in its surroundings, causing considerable losses in lives and material damage. Earlier today, the General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said that terrorist groups supported by Turkey refused to abide by the ceasefire and carried out attacks against civilians, and that the army will resume its operations against those terrorists.

Syrian Arab Army units uncovered a network of tunnels and fortifications in Hesraya farms that terrorists had been using to move, store weapons and ammo, and attack nearby areas prior to their defeat. army engineering units found the tunnels and fortifications while canvassing farmlands in Hesraya village in Hama’s northwestern countryside, and that the tunnels had been dug using equipment made in Turkey, and they contained ammo and shells of various types. Hesraya is located northeast of al-Jebeen and Tal Mileh villages, which the Syrian Arab Army had established control over last week.

Steven Sahiounie, Middle East observer UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said, “I’m very pleased that now we seem to be closer to establishing the constitutional committee,” Syria’s post-war government and new constitution are seen as crucial components of the Syrian peace process which could see the end of the 8-year conflict. A 150-member committee made up of 50 members each chosen by the Syrian government, the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), and the UN will be drafting a new constitution, which might use the existing constitution as a framework. The 50 members chosen by the UN will ensure representation for women and civil society…

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…