Author: Steven Sahiounie

Syria condemned in the strongest terms the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted Crocus City Hall near Moscow, stressing the need for intensifying the world efforts to confront these massacres and bring perpetrators into justice. “The Syrian Arab Republic condemns, in the strongest terms, the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted Crocus City Hall near Moscow which comes after the great achievements gained by the friendly Russian people, particularly the special operation in Donbass, and after the elections that took place many days ago,” Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The statement added that the inhumane brutal attack…

The White House has condemned a major terrorist attack outside Moscow which unfolded on Friday evening, as masked gunmen breached a concert hall northwest of the Russian capital, leaving scores dead and injured. Unofficial reports indicate that at least a dozen people have been killed in the attack at the Crocus City Hall, with around 130 wounded, after the gunmen opened fire at the venue and detonated explosives which set the building ablaze. Speaking to reporters at a briefing in Washington, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the White House sent condolences to the victims of the “terrible” attack, adding that…

Beijing is deeply shocked by a terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow and expresses firm support for Russia’s efforts to ensure security, Chinese President Xi Jinping said. “I was shocked by the news of a serious terrorist attack on a concert hall in the Moscow Region, which resulted in a large number of casualties,” China Central Television quoted Xi Jinping as saying in a message of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “China firmly supports the Russian government’s efforts to maintain national security and stability,” he added, TASS reported. “On behalf of the Chinese government and people,…

The foreign minister of Iran condemned the Friday night’s deadly terrorist attack in Moscow, calling for serious and unbiased action by the international community in the fight against terrorism. In a post on his X account, Hossein Amirabdollahian strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall that has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 145. Expressing sympathy with the families of victims of the attack, Amirabdollahian offered his condolences to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and to the government and people of Russia. “Joint and effective fight against terrorism requires serious and unbiased action by…

A vote at the UN Security Council on a new text calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was postponed to Monday, diplomatic sources said, after a separate, US-lead draft resolution was vetoed.The United States, Israel’s main ally and military backer, had put forward a resolution mentioning “the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire” and condemning the October 7 attack by Hamas.Russia and China on Friday vetoed that resolution, which was also opposed by Arab states for stopping short of explicitly demanding Israel immediately end its campaign in Gaza.The new ceasefire text was meant to go to…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on the international community to bring to justice the plotters and perpetrators of Friday night’s deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. In a message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the Iranian president offered his condolences on the loss of innocent citizens in a brazen attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall that has killed at least 115 people and injured more than 187 others. Raisi strongly condemned the attack and expressed Iran’s support for the Russian officials’ efforts to protect their country’s national security. The Iranian president also called on the international community to act…

Türkiye ‘strongly’ condemned the terror attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed at least 115 people, said the country’s president on Saturday. “We express our condolences to the Russian government for the terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow, and we strongly condemn the attack,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara. “As a country that knows the bloody and treacherous face of terrorism very well, Türkiye shares the pain of the Russian people,” Erdogan said. Terrorism is “unacceptable” no matter where it comes from or who the perpetrator is, he…

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire and said Israel needs to lift all impediments to aid distribution to Gazans. “Limits to aid distribution within Gaza are set by those who block the movements of convoys meant to feed tens of thousands of critically hungry people,” Griffiths said in a post on social media platform X.Meanwhile, the Israeli government announced it was confiscating 800 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest such seizure in decades.An area of about 1,980 acres in the northern Jordan Valley has been declared “state…

Intelligence agencies have detained 11 people, including four terrorists, who were directly involved in an attack on the Crocus City Hall, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement. “The activities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have resulted in the detention of 11 people, including four terrorists, who directly participated in the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall,” the statement reads. Work is underway to identify terrorist accomplices and establish all the circumstances of the attack. “It has already been established that the terrorist attack was carefully planned. The weapons that the terrorists used had been placed…

The Israeli regime is “deliberately causing thirst” and spreading diseases in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority president said. Mahmoud Abbas made the remark on Friday, according to the Palestinian news agency, WAFA. Abbas made the remarks on World Water Day, which is celebrated annually on March 22. “World Water Day this year comes at a time when our Palestinian people in Gaza are experiencing, like never before, the most heinous inhuman crimes of the occupation, which have claimed the lives of thousands of innocent victims, including martyrs, wounded, mostly children, women, and elderly,” he said. Abbas added that Gazans…