Author: Mideast discourse

Taiwan has vowed to take “counter-attack” measures in case China enters its territory, as it announced firing warning shots at a Chinese drone over its region. The Army Kinmen Command claimed that soldiers shot at a Chinese drone for the first time on Tuesday afternoon, adding that the autonomous and uncrewed vehicle then left for Xiamen. Tensions have been on the rise on the island of Taiwan after Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, traveled to the region on August 2, despite warnings from Chinese authorities that the trip, according to the latter, violated the “One China” policy. Less…

The US authorities must admit that the military campaign in Afghanistan ended in defeat, bringing nothing but misery and the collapse of false hopes to that Asian state, the Russian embassy in Washington said in a commentary issued on Wednesday. “The twenty-year US military campaign in Afghanistan ended a year ago. The results of the longest war in the history of the United States are deplorable,” the embassy said in a message on its Telegram channel. “The humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Afghanistan a year later, threatening to become even more lethal scalewise than 20 years of military conflict were.…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The latest death toll has risen to 30 Iraqis as Baghdad descends into chaos and violence, with another 390 protesters wounded from bullets and tear gas inhalation. In March 2023, it will mark the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, and yet the country has never recovered and still has no stable democracy. The Green Zone is a high-security area in Baghdad housing the Iraqi government as well as some foreign embassies. Security forces reported at least seven rockets fell in the zone yesterday. Muqtada Al-Sadr gave a speech today asking his…

The protesters and sit-in participants in Baghdad’s Green Zone were given 60 minutes to leave the Green Zone of Baghdad by the Influential Iraqi cleric and the leader of the Sadr movement Muqtada al-Sadr. Sadr called on his loyalists in the government zone to withdraw after nearly 24 hours of fierce clashes with security forces and Popular Mobilization Units (PMU). In a televised speech Tuesday, Sadr gave his supporters, hundreds of whom stormed the government palace and have been holding an ongoing sit-in outside the parliament building, an hour to leave. Supporters of the influential Iraqi cleric fired rocket-propelled grenades…

The US denied reports that said it was evacuating its embassy Originally published by AntiWar Supporters of the influential Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed government buildings in Baghdad’s Green Zone on Monday after Sadr announced his “final retirement” from politics. The Sadrists clashed with Iraqi security forces and rival militias. According to The Associated Press, as of Monday night in Baghdad, at least 15 protesters have been killed in the clashes. Middle East Eye reported that rockets were consistently falling in the Green Zone late Monday night and that fighting was spreading across Iraq, with heavy gunfire reported in the southern city of Basra. The…

A military diplomatic source stated that the Russian army has actually liquidated the qualified flight personnel of the Ukrainian air force. “The entire somehow qualified flight crew of the former air forces of Ukraine – MiG-29, Su-27 and Su-25 aircraft – was actually eliminated by the effective actions of the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense systems,” the source told Novosti News Agency. The source said that Kyiv lost the remnants of aviation due to the fact that it used inexperienced cadets of the Kharkov military institute to carry out combat missions. They are shot down, according to the source,…

Earlier, it was reported that a shell fired by Ukrainian troops from a M777 US howitzer hit the roof of the Zaporozhye plant’s special unit Ukraine continues to shell the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to frustrate the visit of an International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) mission, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye region military-civilian administration’s council, told TASS on Monday. “The key goal of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s militants is to break down the IAEA mission and to prevent the establishment of cooperation between Russia, the Zaporozhye region authorities and the International Atomic Energy Agency,” he wrote on his…

According to Truss’ plans for a tougher approach to Beijing, China will be categorized as a threat to national security for the first time and will be elevated to a similar status as Russia. The Times reported on Sunday, citing the politician’s allies, that UK Foreign Secretary and PM candidate Liz Truss will announce that China poses a threat to the UK’s national security, adding: “the foreign secretary has promised to reshape foreign policy if she becomes prime minister. She has pledged to reopen the integrated review, published last year, which set out British priorities in diplomacy and defence over the next decade.”…

On August 29th, the Russian Security Service (FSB) claimed that the second member of the Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group who took part in the assassination of Daria Dugina was identified. On August 20, Daria Dugina, Russian journalist, philosopher and war correspondent, was killed in the Moscow region. The SUV she was driving exploded and burned down in the eyes of her father Alexander Dugin, the philosopher, considered to be the ideologist of the “Russian world” concept. On August 22, the FSB blamed Ukrainian special services for the attack. The perpetrator of the crime was a 43-year-old citizen of Ukraine…

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the measure would save money and work more effectively European “neighbors” should set up a joint air defense system amid the Ukraine conflict and other security challenges, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. “We have a lot of catching up to do in Europe when it comes to defense against airborne and space-based threats. That is why we in Germany will be investing very significantly in our air defense over the years ahead,” Scholz said in a speech at Charles University in Prague on Monday. “At the same time, Germany will from the very start design future air defense…