Month: April 2019

Rockets and mortar shells were reportedly fired on residential neighborhoods in Libya’s capital Tripoli, where heavy fighting has led to a deteriorating humanitarian situation, the United Nations said Friday.   U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. is “gravely concerned” at continued reports of indiscriminate shelling of populated areas, including Thursday night.   Forces loyal […]

With pro-gun legislation largely stalled in Congress, President Donald Trump said Friday he is withdrawing the U.S. from an international agreement on the arms trade, telling the National Rifle Association the treaty is “badly misguided.”   Trump made the announcement as he vowed to fight for gun rights and implored members of the nation’s largest […]

Two Trump administration officials said on Friday that neither a wind-down period nor a short-term waiver on China’s oil purchases from Iran are being contemplated after Washington surprised Iran’s customers on Monday by demanding they halt the purchases by May 1 or face sanctions.   The administration has been clear to China, Iran’s top oil […]

Published time: 25 Apr, 2019 10:41 Edited time: 26 Apr, 2019 07:23 FILE PHOTO A laser-guided bomb fired from a U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter jet strikes a fixed ground tank test target during a guided weapons release test at Edwards Air Force Base, California © REUTERS/US Navy/Handout via Reuters Despite a defense budget bigger […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syrian President’s Political and Media Adviser Bouthaina Shaaban said that Syria will welcome Russian-Iranian relations with Turkey if it helps solving the crisis in Syria. – World news – Stating that Turkey had not been adhered to the Idlib’s peace agreement with the Syrian government, Shaaban added that Russia and Iran have […]

A social media account under the name ‘Tom Cat’ that follows security issues in Iraq reported that a checkpoint from the Federal Police 3rd division had been mistakenly targeted. By Seth J. Frantzman April 26, 2019 13:12   On April 24 an Iraqi Federal police member was killed and two others wounded in an airstrike […]

Lebanese paper claims UN peacekeepers have been told to widen operations to better monitor Hezbollah’s weapons and activities near the Israeli border By TOI STAFFToday, 2:23 pm  0 0shares A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows a United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldier monitoring the border […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Britain is committed to help realize the potential of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Friday, describing the policy as a “vision”. Speaking at a summit in Beijing on China’s program to re-create the old Silk Road joining China with Asia and Europe, Hammond said […]

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorist group is allegedly planning an offensive to retake the ancient city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of the Homs Governorate. A source from the Syrian Army in eastern Homs said they have discovered an Islamic State plot to not only retake land in central Syria, but also recapture the […]

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:30 P.M.) – The Iranian Armed Forces unveiled three new domestically-made missiles this week, the Mehr News Agency reported. According to the Iranian publication, the three missiles are as followed: ‘Heidar’ is an air-to-ground missile with a range of more than 8km which can be installed on different types of systems to attack […]