Author: Steven Sahiounie

US officials are weighing a strike on the Houthi against their fears of potentially fueling a broader war against Iran The US Defense Department is considering directly striking the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah’s (the Houthi) rebel military targets in Yemen in response to the escalating attacks on military and commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the US website Semafor reported citing sources. Biden administration officials told the portal that they’re increasingly concerned that the Houthis are trying to undermine global maritime trade, both to undercut trade to Israel and to raise the costs to the US and its allies…

A new opinion poll shows that the majority of young Americans believe Israel should be “ended and given to [the Palestinian resistance movement] Hamas” following the occupying regime’s war in the besieged Gaza Strip. Released on Saturday, the survey, carried out by Harvard-Harris polling, said 51 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believed the key solution to bring to a close the Israel-Palestinian conflict was for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.” The poll said only 32 percent said they believed in a so-called “two-state” solution, and 17 percent said the Arab countries in the West…

Hundreds marched through Barcelona on Saturday, December 16, during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians. Many held Palestinian flags and participated in chants calling for Palestine to be “freed”. Spain, Ireland, Belgium, and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza and have jointly called for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict. The Israeli regime started a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on October 7, which has so far claimed the lives of about 19,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Also, the vast majority of the population of 2.3 million has fled their…

American forces based in military installations in Iraq and neighboring Syria have been targeted dozens of times, as anti-American sentiments are rising across the region over Washington’s unconditional support for Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip. A correspondent for Fox News television channel wrote in a post published on X that US forces have been “attacked for the 100th time” since October 17, the latest of which were drone strikes against US military facilities at al-Omar oilfield and Conoco gas plant in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. U.S. forces attacked for the 100th time since October 17, the latest reportedly in Syria: https://t.co/cWDzsDUU0P—…

An Israeli military sniper has shot dead a Christian mother and daughter on the grounds of a Catholic church in the Gaza Strip sheltering displaced Palestinian families. The fatal shooting took place inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City at around noon on Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of al-Quds, which oversees Catholic Churches across Cyprus, Jordan, the Israeli-occupied territories, Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement. “Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister’s Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” it added. The patriarchate…

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the more destruction the Israeli regime causes in Palestine, the more nails they drive into their coffin. Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks on Sunday morning in a ceremony in Tehran to bid farewell to newly discovered martyrs of Iraqi-imposed war on Iran (1980-1988). He noted that the Palestinian people will continue to resist Israeli occupation, and the US and the Israeli regime are doomed to failure in their war on Gaza. “In the war in Palestine, the more Israeli forces destroy, the more nails they drive into…

A top Iranian envoy has warned that “conflicting interests” between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden in the Gaza war may become “unmanageable” and cost them their political future. In an exclusive interview with the American weekly news magazine Newsweek on Friday, Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani emphasized that the fates of Netanyahu and Biden are intertwined with the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. “Netanyahu finds his political future tied to the continuation of the war on Gaza, while President Biden perceives his reelection prospects entwined with bringing an end to the hostilities,”…

A senior member of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says the country’s armed forces will expand the scope of their military operations to target installations deep inside the Israel-occupied territories if the regime forges ahead with its genocidal war on Gaza. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansarullah’s political bureau made the remarks late on Saturday, stressing that the Zionist regime is trying its hardest to obscure the extent of damage caused as a result of Yemeni offensives. “We managed to completely suspend the shipping route to Israel through the Red Sea,” Bukhaiti noted. His comments came only a few hours after the Yemeni…

Hamas says it has informed all sides mediating talks between the Palestinian resistance group and Israel that it will engage in no discussions on a prisoner-for-abductee swap unless the occupying regime completely ends its onslaught on the Gaza Strip. “Hamas reaffirms its stance not to conduct any negotiations to exchange prisoners unless the Zionist aggression against our people stops once and for all,” the movement said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it had “conveyed this position to all mediators.” Israel waged the brutal war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the…

Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement have continued their strikes on Israeli military position close to the border between Lebanon and the occupied territories, in response to the Tel Aviv regime’s war on Gaza. Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing a Hezbollah statement released on Sunday, reported that the group had targeted Israeli forces at Birkat Risha outpost in the north of occupied Palestinian lands, causing casualties among the troops. Several Israeli troopers were also injured, when additional strikes hit the vicinity of Hanita military facility, situated approximately 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) northeast of Nahariya. Hezbollah said on Saturday that it mounted…