Author: Steven Sahiounie

Behrouz Vahedi, a military advisor of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), was assassinated during an overnight airstrike by US warplanes in eastern Syria, as confirmed by Syrian media reports. The attack occurred in Deir ez-Zur Province early Tuesday, with the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) verifying the assault, stating, “Seven soldiers and one civilian” were killed in the US airstrike on various locations, causing casualties and significant damage to property. Amidst the strikes, which targeted residential areas and military sites across the province, including cities of Deir ez-Zur, Mayadin, and Bukamal, 19 soldiers and 13 civilians were wounded,…

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland today issued a fervent plea for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, amid “cataclysmic” suffering in the Gaza Strip and continuing violence in the occupied West Bank. The call by Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland followed Monday’s adoption by the Security Council of a resolution “demanding” an immediate ceasefire in the enclave for the remainder of Ramadan. He said he was “appalled” by the immense scale of killings, destruction and suffering wrought by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, with civilian killings at an unprecedented rate. “Nothing can justify the collective punishment…

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini had warned last month that the funding crunch was so great the organization might not be able to operate beyond March“But we are still working from one month to the next,” he said, adding that now “we have funding until the end of May“ GENEVA: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has enough funds to keep operating until at least the end of May, its chief told Swiss media on Tuesday.UNRWA, which coordinates nearly all aid to Gaza, has been in crisis since Israel accused about a dozen of its 13,000 Gaza employees of being involved…

Russia expresses indignation over the unprofessional behavior of the French delegation that has disrupted the UNSC meeting on NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said in a commentary. “We are outraged by the incorrect and unprofessional behavior of France, which is one of the ‘five’ permanent members of the Security Council with a special historical obligation to comply with the Council’s provisional rules of procedure and other norms, developed over many years on the basis of mutual respect and consideration of interests,” she said. Zakharova explained that on March 25, the French delegation to the…

Annalena Baerbock describes the situation in Gaza as horrific, with residents trying to satisfy their most basic daily needs to survive.  International organizations must be permitted to transport help to Gaza without interference, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday. Baerbock expressed that the situation in Gaza was horrific, with residents trying to satisfy their most basic daily needs to survive. During a trip to “Israel” meeting officials, Baerbock called the humanitarian situation in Gaza “hell” and called for “unhindered” delivery of vital aid while she was in “Tel Aviv”. Aid groups estimate only about a fifth of the supplies needed…

The terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall was meant to destabilize the situation in Russia, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said. “To rock the boat, to stir panic in society. You see what is going on along the combat engagement line. Ukraine’s notorious counteroffensive has failed and they need to do something to show their worth,” he told journalists. He also noted that Donbass and the Belgorod Region are at the epicenter of Ukraine’s attacks. “Now, our armed forces are pushing terrorists and militants further away from Donbass. What is happening in the Belgorod Region?…

Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for six drone and missile attacks against Israel, as well as US and UK military and commercial ships, in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on Tuesday that their naval and missile forces fired missiles at the Maersk Saratoga, APL Detroit, Huang Pu, and Pretty Lady ships while cruising in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden over the last 72 hours, claiming that the first and second ships were American and the third and fourth British.Sarea also claimed to have launched drones at two US Navy warships in…

Budapest has no intentions of cutting off high-level contacts with Moscow and all means of communications must remain open, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told TASS in an interview. “It’s obvious and goes without saying that we that we keep in touch with the Russian leaders,” Szijarto said. “I myself, keep in touch with my colleagues, the [Russian] Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov], the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy [Alexander Novak], the Deputy Prime Minister for Industry and Trade [Denis Manturov].” “We do believe that the channels of communication must be kept open, because if we cut the channels of communication,…

Presidential Advisor for Diplomatic Affairs, Magdi Al-Khalidi, received today German Minister of State for Economic Cooperation and Development, Niels Annen. During a meeting in Ramallah, al-Khalidi briefed the German Minister on Palestine’s positions calling for stopping the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, immediately introducing aid into the entire Gaza Strip, the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip, preventing displacement and accelerating the implementation of a political solution based on international legitimacy resolutions to end the occupation and embody the establishment of a state of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The President’s Advisor appreciated the positions of Federal…

The US has again urged Israel to abandon plans for a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are hemmed in after months of fighting in Gaza. “We share Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas,” US ambassador Robert Wood told the UN Security Council on Tuesday, “but a major military ground operation in Rafah is not the way to do it. “It risks killing more civilians, it risks wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance. “And so our advice to Israel is, there is a better way.” Wood also said Washington is working to…