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Despite any claims of the Ukrainian government and its president Volodymyr Zelensky that the aim in Eastern Ukraine is to reach peace, numbers stand to prove the opposite. On September 7th, the 35 for 35 prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine ...

Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson; The Hong Kong protests represent a major challenge not only to the authorities of Hong Kong itself, but also to Beijing, due to both their protracted nature and a high level ...

by Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan China is an old civilization and has been passing through various ups and downs throughout history. Which is very much rational and the natural cycle of human history. There was a time when Romans ...

[this column was written for the Unz Review] I don’t know whether the supposedly Chinese curse really comes from China, but whether it does or not, we most certainly are cursed with living in some truly interesting times: Iran won the first ...

Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral. A funeral for the longtime leader will be held on Saturday, September 14th and a burial ceremony will be held the following day. This announcement comes amid a row over ...

[This column was written for the Unz Review] There is nothing new about empires taking hostages and using them to put pressure on whatever rebel group needs to reminded “who is boss”. The recent arrest in Italy of Alexander Korshunov, the director ...

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, branded in mainstream media as “Putin’s chef”, is hiring hundreds of “freelance fighters” as a part of a plan to attack Syria’s Greater Idlib, a Jihadists stronghold, Bloomberg reported on September 6, citing “people with direct knowledge of ...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) abandoned their military facility at Avivim in Upper Galilee, which had been targeted by Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile strike. According to a released video, IDF troops left behind at least 2 pieces of military equipment ...

Hezbollah, allegedly, posted a picture of Netanyahu taken through his office window. The captions for the image say: “Don’t test our capabilities…” A photo of Netanyahu is, allegedly, taken in Israel from a quadcopter drone.

A large-scale escalation has taken place on the contact line between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. On September 1, the Israeli military launched several shells at unidentified targets in Shebaa Farms, located in the Israeli-occupied area. An Israeli ...