Author: Mideast discourse

It is reported that the Kiev regime’s attempt of a large-scale provocation undertaken on September 1 was aimed at disrupting the arrival of a mission of the IAEA at the Zaporozhye NPP Russian troops thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian saboteurs to land on the shore near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) from two self-propelled barges that departed from Nikopol, both barges were sunk, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday. “At about 7:00 a.m. Moscow time, units of the Russian armed forces thwarted an attempt by a tactical assault group of the Ukrainian army to land on the shore several…

Several air strikes against the Aleppo International Airport in western Syria were conducted by the Israeli regime on Wednesday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported, citing a military source. “At around 20:00 hours (17:00 GMT), the Israeli enemy targeted Aleppo International Airport with missile fire, causing material damage at the heart of the facility,” the agency said. The report did not make any mention of possible human losses. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based so-called monitor, said four Israeli missiles had targeted the runway and depots at the airport. Also on Wednesday, SANA added, “The army…

A Ukrainian sabotage group, detained in Enerhodar, was plotting a terrorist attack at the Zaporozhye NPP. A Ukrainian sabotage group was plotting a terrorist attack at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant during the visit of the IAEA expert mission to show that Russia is unable to provide security, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration, told Sputnik on Wednesday. “According to preliminary data, the terrorist attack was being prepared during the visit of the IAEA delegation to show the situation is not under control and that Russia could not provide security,” Rogov said. A Ukrainian sabotage group,…

With the participation of Syria, Vostok 2022, the strategic military exercises of command and staff, has opened Wednesday in Russia at the Sergeyevsky Training Ground in the Primorye Territory, attended by the military units’ commanders from the participating foreign states. The representatives of the units coming from the participating states emphasized the peaceful nature of the ongoing joint exercises, the commitment to mutual understanding and cooperation, and strengthening the military ties among the armed forces of the participating countries. They also called on the joint military personnel to demonstrate high level of  professionalism and interaction in the context of joint…

On August 31, fighter jets of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is occupied by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and several other terrorist groups. The airstrikes hit the outskirts of the town of Sarjah in the southern countryside of Idlib, where HTS maintain a number of positions, as well as the remains of a food preservation plant in the western outskirts of Idlib city, which is being used as a headquarters by the terrorist group. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the airstrikes…

 The websites of four major ports in the Israeli-occupied territories were knocked offline by a group of Iraqi hackers. It comes weeks after a group of pro-Palestinian hackers from Bangladesh shut down the websites of two commercial Israeli ports. Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, reported that a hacker group calling itself “ALtahrea Team” took down the websites of Jaffa Port, the Port of Haifa, Acre Port as well as the Port of Eilat on Wednesday. Back on August 2, the Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronot daily newspaper reported that a…

Russians will no longer be able to file their applications under a simplified procedure The German-advocated suspension of a visa-facilitation agreement with Russia was supported by a majority of EU members, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. Scrapping the deal was seen as an alternative to a proposed full ban on the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens. There was no unanimity among EU members for the harsher general visa ban, the Hungarian minister said in a video address on his Facebook page on Wednesday. But the proposal to suspend the agreement only requires a qualified majority of…

 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met on Wednesday in Moscow. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, had left Tehran for Moscow on Tuesday night and arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov; the two officials met today. In the meeting, Lavrov stated: “Today, we will discuss issues such as the unconditional revival of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal knownas the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the crisis situation in the region.” Amir-Abdollahian, for his part, said: “I am glad that the relations…

An air strike hit the neighborhood near a hospital in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region late on Tuesday, said the head of another hospital which received casualties, less than a week after fighting shattered a four-month old ceasefire. Kibrom Gebreselassie, chief executive of Ayder General Hospital, said on Twitter that an area near Mekelle General Hospital had been hit. The extent of the damage and casualties was unclear. Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu, military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and the prime minister’s spokeswoman Billene Seyoum did not respond to requests for comment on the air strike. Getachew Reda,…

On Monday, the IAEA’s mission left Vienna and arrived in Kiev on Tuesday where the delegation met Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission, on their way to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, have already joined the queue at the line of engagement to cross over to the liberated area, said the head of the Zaporozhye Region’s military-civilian administration, Yevgeny Balitsky. “This mission is not on our territory yet, they are queued up somewhere [near Zaporozhye]. We were asked to fast-track the process, but I refused, saying let them stand in line and have…