Middle Orient

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored this morning three violent explosions in the Syrian regime-controlled city of Salamiya in eastern Hama countryside. No information has been reported so far about the nature of the explosions whether it was caused by a rocket attack or something else. …

According to an official statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Ministry of Defense, Moscow has decided and sent its troops to the Golan Heights. Russian troops will patrol with Syrian soldiers directly on the Bravo Line, which currently separates Syrian and Israeli troops in the region.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah denied Sunday having any data around Israeli or US intention to perform any operation before the end of Trump’s presidency dubbing the latter a “crazy who is in a state of severe madness”.

Iraq’s anti-terror group, Kata’ib Hezbollah, called the last week’s rocket attack against the US embassy in Baghdad a false-flag strike and a plot hatched by Washington. Muhammad Mohi, the spokesman for Kata’ib Hezbollah, which is part of the country’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), made the comments in an interview with …

Bahrain’s economy is heavily dependent on that of Saudi Arabia, making it an easy conduit for Saudi businesspeople to connect to Israel. Saudi Arabian companies plan to invest in Israel through Bahrain, according to a person with knowledge about the matter.

The Gaza-based terror group reiterated its commitment to “armed struggle” as the sole means of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas is “not in a hurry” to engage in another war with Israel but remains committed to “armed struggle” as the only means to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it said Sunday.

The deathes of Abu Muhammad al-Masri and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, allegedly due to Mossad, were deep blows to Iranian pride. The standoff with Iran in 2020 literally started with a “boom!”On January 3, Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by the US.

“I don’t really believe he’s being honest,” the source said. “We need to see actions.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot harbor Hamas terrorists and try to forge closer ties with Israel, a senior diplomatic source said Sunday.

The Iraqi government needs Turkey to counterbalance Iran and help alleviate Baghdad’s economic problems, but the Kurdish issue, which has long strained bilateral ties, might further snag progress in economic and strategic projects.

US contractors to cite senior officials’ involvement in shipments and cash transfers Qatar will be implicated in funding and enabling shipments of drone components from China and Europe to Yemen’s Houthi Rebels.