Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus dismissed the notion that the withdrawal of IRGC commanders from Syria would halt Israeli military strikes, Shaam Network says Iran’s Ambassador to Damascus, Hussein Akbari, has dismissed the notion that the withdrawal of Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders from Syria would halt Israeli military strikes. Akbari views …

The targeted Western audience is made to believe that it might be a blessing in disguise that Russia is once again on the offensive after the spectacular failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive last summer since this supposedly imbues the West with a renewed sense of urgency to ensure that Ukraine won’t …

Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the besieged Gaza Strip with the kind of ferocity that could only lead to a genocide. In fact, Europe remained silent when the word ‘genocide’ quickly replaced the earlier reference to the ‘Israel-Hamas war’, starting on October 7. Those familiar with Europe’s political …

The clashes between Hezbollah and Israel are the closest to an actual war that the Lebanon-Israel border has seen since the war of 2006, which resulted in a rushed Israeli retreat, if not outright defeat. We often refer to the ongoing conflict between Lebanon and Israel as ‘controlled’ clashes, simply …

The problem is not the absence of a Palestinian state, but Zionism itself. What is the use of a Palestinian state, if Zionism, as a racist, exclusivist ideology continues to define Israel, and impose that definition on the Palestinians? This ideology calls for racial purity of Jews in Palestine, of …

The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. As soon as the Israeli war began, following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, every moral or legal frame of reference that Washington and its western allies supposedly held dear was suddenly dropped. Western …

Turkiye last week signed a 10-year defense and economic cooperation agreement with Somalia, which aims to help defend the latter’s long coastline and also rebuild the naval forces of the fragile Horn of Africa nation. The agreement took a great deal of attention, as it came amid growing tensions in …

Border tensions between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, have been rising over the past two months. Following Israel’s counteroffensive on Hamas in Gaza, after the latter’s actions on the 7th of October, Hezbollah has vowed to support Hamas in their war against Israel. Despite Hezbollah’s …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has offered an increased military partnership during the latest bilateral talks with his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop in Moscow. The significance of Russian support is directed at fighting terrorism, and in enhancing the combat effectiveness of the Malian army and law enforcement agencies, including the …

Battlefield AssessmentFollowing Russia’s hard-fought seizure of Avdiivka last week—the first Ukrainian city in months to fall into Russian hands—evidence suggests that the Kremlin has shifted its focus toward inflicting maximum pressure and expanding its gains in areas surrounding the captured metropolitan area. According to open-source intelligence, Russian forces are mounting …