Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

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…