Author: Steven Sahiounie

In revenge, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC says it targeted Israel’s “spy headquarters” in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and also struck in Syria against the armed group ISIL (ISIS). Iran promised payback for the killing of three IRGC members in Syria last month, including a senior general, who served as military advisers there. “In response to the recent atrocities of the Zionist regime, causing the killing of commanders of the Guards and the Axis of Resistance … one of the main Mossad espionage headquarters in Iraq’s Kurdistan region was destroyed with ballistic missiles,” the IRGC said in a statement. “We assure our…

A leading global exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), QatarEnergy, has stopped sending tankers via the Red Sea amid growing uncertainty about the safety of passage on the vital shipping route, Reuters reported on Monday.

Speaking after his win at the Iowa caucuses, in which the former US president cemented his Republican frontrunner status as he bids to retake the White House in 2024, Donald Trump said the “Israeli situation” is “so horrible”. He continued that “Israel would never have been attacked” if he were in the White House and called Joe Biden the “worst president” in US history. Trump said he would “get them solved very fast”, referring to the situation in both Ukraine and Israel, without providing further details. source: AlJazeera

The Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hussein al-Sheikh, met with a French delegation, headed by the diplomatic advisor to the French President, Emmanuel Bonne. They discussed the latest political developments on the Palestinian, regional and international arenas during the meeting, in addition to ways to reach a ceasefire and an end to the bloody Israeli war and humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. The two officials further affirmed their rejection of the dangerous escalatory Israeli measures and policies in the West Bank. The diplomatic advisor to the French President, to PLO Secretary General, affirmed…

Most payments for imports of such products in 2023 were made using yuan and rupees, according to the outlet

Russian factories produced more than 700,000 vehicles last year in what has been a rapid recovery from Western sanctions, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov announced on Monday.   

The German economy shrank by 0.3% year-on-year in 2023 after being hit by high inflation, soaring energy prices, and weak foreign demand, the Federal Statistical Office has reported. 

On January 14, an Israeli strike led to the death of Yazan Al-Zuweidi, a cameraman for the Egyptian TV channel Al Ghad, who was covering events in the north of the enclave

After its withdrawal, the 162nd Division will remain in northern Gaza “carrying out clean-up operations to locate Hamas’s infrastructure and kill or capture its remaining operatives,” the media reported

“Still, aid workers, under enormous pressure and with no safety guarantees, are doing their best to deliver inside Gaza,” Antonio Guterres said