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Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on April 13, 2018 in Beirut, in preparation for the May 6 legislative elections in Lebanon. Translation: unz.com/sayedhasan Transcript: […] Today, the whole region goes through a worrying situation. Worry is one thing, ...

Syrian government forces have liberated the districts of al-Ma’dhaniyah, al-Asali, al-Qadam and al-Jourah in the southern countryside of Damascus from ISIS. Government troops captured all these areas after air and artillery strikes had destroyed all the ISIS defense there. The ...

The UK and its allies continue to push “The Russians did it” version in the Skripal poisoning story. On March 4, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia suffered the effects of an alleged nerve agent ...

by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author) Modi and Xi meeting could have a crucial SCO subplot focusing on security and economic cooperation All bets are off on the outcome of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

Russia may “soon” deliver S-300PMU-2 ‘Favorite’ missile defense systems to Syria, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on April 23 citing two military diplomatic sources. The S-300PMU-2 ‘Favorite’ is an export version of the Russian S-300 missile defense system. It has ...

Yesterday the Russian held an extraordinary briefing and press conference at the OPCW, which featured the boy which supposedly was gassed in Douma, his father and other witnesses: Here is the Russian language video of this 2 hour long press ...

Video starts at 1:10 Ruptly’s description: Russia’s Representatives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) hold a press conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in The Hague on Thursday, April 26. Two witnesses, 11 year-old Hassan Diab ...

On April 25, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies established a full control of Eastern Qalamoun following a withdrawal of the last batch of militants from the area. However, the Syrian Defense Ministry still has confirm the control ...

by Scott Humor On Monday April 16, a well-oiled machine of anti-Russian sanctions experienced a major hiccup. This day the US Treasury promised to announce new sanctions against Russia’s companies and persons, if  the US Ambassador to the UN Nikki ...

*Says Two Unexploded Missiles Delivered To Moscow One unexploded Tomahawk cruise missile and one high accuracy air-launched missile launched by the US and its allies on Syria on April 14 have been brought to Moscow, the chief of the Russian General ...