Author: Steven Sahiounie

The loss of China as the fourth largest market for US agricultural exports has put the already weakened sector in danger of further decline, experts warn, despite billions in federal aid already paid and more promised. Chinese companies have stopped buying US agricultural goods, the Commerce Ministry announced on Monday. While farming exports are not that large a portion of the United States’ annual GDP of $20 trillion, China has until recently been its fourth largest market, behind Canada, Mexico, and Japan. Overall, China accounted for $5.9 billion in US agriculture exports in 2018, according to the US Census Bureau. Its loss…

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday claimed that the United States was attempting to starve the Iranian people by tightening economic sanctions against Tehran. “Terrorism is not only an armed attack on citizens, starvation of 82 million Iranians is also a form of terrorism,” Zarif said, aired by the Iranian television. He also added that the United States’ sanctions on Iran forced it to rely on its own people to produce the weapons they needed. In late July, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Zarif as part of its maximum pressure policy on Iran amid escalating tensions between the two countries. The sanctions…

Padraig McGrath, political analyst When the Royal Marines seized the Iranian-owned Grace 1 supertanker off Gibraltar on July 4th, then British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt hailed the seizure as a sign that Iran had “no place to hide.” On July 19th, when the Iranian government retaliated by authorizing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to seize the Swedish-owned, British-registered tanker Stena Impero in Hormuz, Hunt described it as an act of “state-piracy.” Now, at first glance, this looks like just another tedious example of the blatant double-standards which we’ve come to expect from western politicians in relation to non-vassal states, and…

Syrian terrorist on Thursday fired four rockets from a multiple-launch rocket system in the direction of Russia’s Hmeimim airbase, no damages or casualties were sustained as the rockets hit a nearby village, the Russian Defence Ministry said “On August 8, at about 04.00 pm Moscow time [13:00 GMT], air defenses at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase detected a launch of four multiple salvo rockets approaching the base from the Kbana area in Latakia,” the ministry said in a statement. According to the statement, the airbase is operating normally as no damage or injuries were caused by the rockets, which hit a settlement…

By Mark Taliano The war on Syria is a war against children, and men, and women.  It is a war against Christians, and Muslims, and civilization itself.  It is a war for terrorism and sectarianism and extremist ideologies.  It is a war for dictatorship, permanent war, and enduring poverty. It is a war that seeks to destroy Syria as a functioning state, to balkanize, to loot, to plunder. It is a war that empties Western treasuries, and impoverishes the aggressors, the countries that commit Supreme International War Crimes as policy.The West and its agencies that are perpetrating this holocaust are degrading themselves, and…

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.