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- Russian naval fleet stalks US warship in the Black Sea
- Middle East Council of Churches calls on new US President to lift sanctions on Syria
- Large number of Russian forces deploy to central Syria for operation against ISIS
- Lebanon accuses Israel of kidnaping shepherd from border area
- Pirates attack Turkish ship off the coast of Nigeria
- Greece to purchase 18 Rafale warplanes from France amid rising tension with Turkey
- Syria slams Israeli attack on Hama to UN, announces ‘right to self-defense’
- Rare clashes breakout between Syrian military and Kurdish forces in northeast Syria
- Iranian media posts photo of Trump golfing under shadow of strategic bomber
Russian naval fleet stalks US warship in the Black Sea
Published 2021-01-24 11:15:07 by News Desk in World-News
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has begun tracking the movements of the US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) that entered the Black Sea, Russia’s National Defense Control Center said on Saturday. “The Black Sea Fleet’s radars have begun tracking the movements of the US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook that entered the Black Sea on January 23, 2021,” the center said. USS Donald Cook entered the Black Sea on November 23, 2020, when it was also escorted by the Black Sea Fleet. The US Navy’s vessels make regular visits to the Black Sea. The Russian Foreign… Read on ->
Tags: Russia, US
Middle East Council of Churches calls on new US President to lift sanctions on Syria
Published 2021-01-24 11:02:45 by News Desk in Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:45 A.M.) – The Council of Eastern Churches and the heads of churches and religious authorities called on US President Joe Biden to “abolish the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people, which increases their suffering.” In a message to Biden on the occasion of his assumption to the presidency, the council and religious leaders said: “Once again, in defense of human rights and human dignity, the Middle East Council of Churches renews its call for the abolition of the economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people, which are more and more carefully violating their right to… Read on ->
Tags: Syria, US
Large number of Russian forces deploy to central Syria for operation against ISIS
Published 2021-01-24 10:37:50 by News Desk in Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 A.M.) – Over the past few days, several Russian military convoys have suddenly moved towards the Syrian desert, as they join the fight on the ground against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist organization. According to Sputnik Arabic, the Russian military convoys consisted of armored vehicles, troop carriers and trucks carrying logistical equipment to the forces in the Syrian desert. Special sources revealed to Sputnik Arabic that the Russian forces, in cooperation with units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Russian military police, have moved reinforcements towards the Badiya Al-Sham region, which is located in the… Read on ->
Tags: ISIS, Russia, Syria
Lebanon accuses Israel of kidnaping shepherd from border area
Published 2021-01-24 10:22:14 by News Desk in Israel, Lebanon
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 A.M.) – The National News Agency (NNA) of Lebanon reported that an Israeli force attempted to kidnap the Lebanese shepherd, Ismail Qassem Zahra, from Mazraat Bastara in the Shebaa Farms area, before he managed to escape. No further details were released. Lebanon previously accused the Israeli army of kidnapping the shepherd, Hassan Qassem Zahra, Ismail’s brother, on January 12th, while he was tending a herd of cattle in the locality of Bastara and released him after 4 days. The Lebanese government then lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council and the United Nations, regarding the kidnapping… Read on ->
Tags: Israel, Lebanon
Pirates attack Turkish ship off the coast of Nigeria
Published 2021-01-24 09:57:22 by News Desk in Africa, Turkey
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:45 A.M.) – On Saturday, a group of armed pirates launched an attack on a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria with 19 people on board, killing one of them and kidnapping 15 others. The Turkish authorities confirmed that the MOZART vessel, which sails under the flag of Liberia and belongs to the Boden company based in Istanbul, was on its way from the city of Lagos in Nigeria to Cape Town in South Africa when it was attacked Saturday morning by pirates in the Strait of Guinea, 100 km away. Multiple sources confirmed that the… Read on ->
Tags: Nigeria, Turkey
Greece to purchase 18 Rafale warplanes from France amid rising tension with Turkey
Published 2021-01-24 09:45:39 by News Desk in Turkey, World-News
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:30 A.M.) – The French Minister of Armed Forces, Florence Parly, will travel to Athens on Monday to sign a contract to sell 18 Rafale fighter jets to Greece, which is facing increased tension with neighboring Turkey. The Greek Defense Ministry said in a statement that Parly will meet her Greek counterpart, Nikos Panayotopoulos, and “after that, an agreement to purchase Rafale combat aircraft will be signed.” The contract, worth 2.5 billion euros, includes 12 used aircraft and six new aircraft with their weapons. Negotiations on the contract took a record time between the two governments, and the… Read on ->
Tags: France, Greece, Turkey
Syria slams Israeli attack on Hama to UN, announces ‘right to self-defense’
Published 2021-01-24 09:28:44 by News Desk in Israel, Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:10 A.M.) – Damascus denounced what it described as “silence” about the Israeli attacks on Friday, and appealed to the United Nations to condemn the attacks, affirming “Syria’s right to self-defense.” In a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council and the President of the Human Rights Council, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that “the criminal Israeli aggression at dawn on Friday around the city of Hama comes as a continuation of the Israeli attacks, which in less than a year have reached more than 50 attacks.” It described these assaults… Read on ->
Tags: Hama, Israel, Syria
Rare clashes breakout between Syrian military and Kurdish forces in northeast Syria
Published 2021-01-24 09:09:11 by News Desk in Syria
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:45 A.M.) – A series of clashes broke out between the government-aligned National Defense Forces (NDF) and Kurdish-led Asayish police forces in the northeastern region of Syria on Saturday, resulting in several hours of tension between the both sides. According to local reports, the clashes broke out during a dispute between the NDF and Asayish along the front-lines of the two forces inside Qamishli (Al-Hasakah Governorate), one of the largest cities in Syria. The clashes forced the Russian military police to get involved, who dispersed the two sides and reestablished security between the Qamishli International Airport and the… Read on ->
Tags: Asayish, NDF, Qamishli, Syria
Iranian media posts photo of Trump golfing under shadow of strategic bomber
Published 2021-01-24 08:38:40 by News Desk in Iran
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency has tweeted a doctored image of Donald Trump playing golf in the shadow of an American B-2 strategic stealth bomber. The Tweet reads “Revenge is inevitable,” a quote apparently taken from a remark made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in December, when he vowed avenge the life of top military commander General Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was killed in a drone attack on his convoy at Baghdad International Airport on 3 January 2020, on the order of US President Donald Trump. This led to a major escalation in tensions between Washington and Tehran. In retaliation,… Read on ->
Tags: Iran, Trump
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