Author: Mideast discourse

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator While the world has sympathy for the plight of Europeans facing a cold winter because of their energy crisis, Syrians have been suffering a lack of energy since 2011. The European energy crisis is based partly on politics, but the Syrian energy crisis is caused exclusively by the US-NATO political attack on Syria for regime change. Syria has a milder climate than Europe; however, Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus have snow on the ground during part of every winter. Syrian residents have almost no electricity, and a shortage of cooking gas, home heating fuel, and…

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman says the country on Wednesday afternoon received the US’s response to Tehran’s proposals aimed at resolving remaining issues during the sanctions removal talks from the EU’s coordinator of the Vienna negotiations. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani says the country on Wednesday afternoon received the US’s response to Tehran’s proposals aimed at resolving remaining issues during the sanctions removal talks from the EU’s coordinator of the Vienna negotiations. Kanaani added that the Islamic Republic of Iran had started carefully reviewing the US side’s response. The Foreign Ministry spokesman also said the Islamic Republic of Iran would…

According to the Journal of Infection, this is the first known case in which the three viral diseases concurred in one individual An Italian man has been diagnosed with HIV, Covid-19, and monkeypox simultaneously – the first known case of the concurrence of these three viral diseases, the Journal of Infection has reported. According to an article published by the medical outlet last Friday, the 36-year-old male spent five days in Spain in June this year, developing a fever accompanied by a sore throat, fatigue, and a headache nine days later. A subsequent test yielded a positive result for…

Late on August 23, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) struck facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the northeastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor. The strikes were a response to two attacks which targeted US forces in Syria on August 15. Back then, a number of suicide drone struck a garrison of the US-led coalition in the southeastern area of al-Tanf. A salvo of rockets also hit the coalition’s Green Village base inside al-Omar oil fields in Deir Ezzor. Both attacks were blamed on the IRGC. In a statement, the CENTCOM said that the…

Russian fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes on positions of the Takfiri Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib after the terrorist group shelled residential neighborhoods in the northwestern province of Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Major General Oleg Yegorov, deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, said that a terrorist camp involved in recent rocket attacks against Khan Shaykhun town and Saraqib was destroyed by airstrikes. He continued by saying that as a result, the militants’ ammunition depot, operations room, and communications hub were all destroyed. The development came less than a week after the…

On August 22, an American General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper combat drone was shot down over the northeastern Libyan city of Benghazi by the Libyan National Army (LNA). Ahmed al-Mismari, a spokesperson for the LNA, said back then that an unidentified drone was shot down while it was carrying out a reconnaissance mission over Benghazi. The spokesman noted that the drone was armed with at least two missiles. Footage showing what appeared to be an MQ-9 drone crashing in the outskirts of Benghazi circulating on social media at the time. Benghazi is the main stronghold of the LNA, which is led…

Two civilians were martyred and ten others were injured in shelling attacks by the Turkish occupation and its affiliated terrorist organizations on residential areas in the countryside of Aleppo and Hasaka. “Turkish occupation- backed terrorist mercenaries bombed Wednesday with a number of heavy shells the city of Tel Rifaat, from their deploying areas in Aleppo far northern countryside, killing two civilians and wounding 10 more” local sources told SANA reporter. Meanwhile, the occupation forces and terrorists in the northwestern countryside of Hasaka targeted the village of Tal al-Laban, affiliated to Tel Tamer district, causing damages to homes and public properties,…

Germany needs to stick to a ‘fact-oriented policy’ in dealing with fuel shortages, Steffen Kotre says The launch of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could help solve the growing energy crisis in Europe, Bundestag MP Steffen Kotre told the TASS news agency on Wednesday. “Even if the gas storage facilities are full, there will be enough for about three months this winter. And then what? Ideology has to give way to a real fact-oriented policy… The only sensible solution is to launch Nord Stream 2,” Kotre, who is a member of the German parliamentary committee on energy and climate…

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused Ukrainian special services of carrying out the murder of the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) now says it has solved the case and that Ukraine is directly responsible.  Journalist Darya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a car she was driving exploded near Moscow. Her father, Alexander Dugin, a prominent ultra-nationalist thought to be close to the Russian president, may have been the intended target. Ukrainian officials had already denied any involvement in the explosion. But in a statement carried by Russian media outlets, the FSB…

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly shelling the city of Energodar which is under control of the Russian military. The main target is the Zaporozhie nuclear power plant which is the largest one in Europe. On August 22, the AFU launched artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporozhie thermal power plant located in close proximity to the Zaporozhie nuclear power plant. A civilian car came under fire. The driver was killed as a result of the attack. Another civilian was wounded. “Strikes were recorded on the TPP area, preliminary, from American long-range artillery weapons. One civilian was killed,…