Devs Apr 23 >Syria SAA forces targeted with heavy weapons, the towns of Kansfra and Al-Barah in the southern Idlib countryside SDF on Euphrates targeting a number of ferries and confiscating large quantities of steel and smuggled cement >Lebanon Protesters have returned to Beirut's Martyr's Square, in a "car march" although not all are staying in their cars. Most, but also not all, are wearing masks Seven people, including five Syrians, were killed in a shooting in the Harakiyeh area in the Lebanese town of Baakline >Iraq Four brigades split from Iraq's PMF in sign of internal rift - Loyal to Shiite cleric Ali Al Sistani, the brigades are now under the direction of the prime minister's office Iraqi Prime Minister-designate @MAKadhimi reveals his government ministers: Adnan Al-Zarfi included >Libya LNA repels the attack of the GNA in the Ain Zara area and the Casirma area, and the clashes are still ongoing LNA claims 15 GNA fighters arrested, including Syria nationals >Yemen Al Jufra military camp has been captured, as Houthis continue to approach Marib >Afghanistan TOLO reported 19 ANDSF personnel killed in Taliban attack in Logar. Afghanistan Taliban also claimed operations in Garmsir, Helmand >Ukraine Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 8 times. Ex-President of Georgia Saakashvili confirmed that he has received proposal from Zelensky to become a vice-PM of Ukraine
3 hours ago (left) Haftars private jet (P4-RMA) leaving Venezuela heading back to Libya. It's unknown who is onboard, or the reason for the visit to Caracas
3 hours ago GNA rejects the EU's Operation @EUNAVFOR_MED IRINI to enforce the UN arms embargo on Libya, claiming only renegade general Haftar and his LNA would benefit from the action
3 hours ago The private jet of Khalifa Haftar, commander of the LNA in Libya, landed in Caracas overnight. No confirmation on who was onboard.
17 hours ago LNA's commander, Khalifa Haftar: The tragic situation in Libya and the suffering of the people have reached their climax which leaves no choice for the Libyans except to clearly announce the overthrow of the so-called political agreement and the GNA
18 hours ago The proposals of the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament(LNA) include the assumption by the new Presidential Council of the duties of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces during 1st phase
a day ago The United Nations Mission to Libya calls on the Libyan parties to cease fire and end the conflict as the beginning of Ramadan approaches
4 hours ago Two patients recover from COVID19 in Halabja governorate
17 hours ago PMU is responding to an attack on the remnants of ISIS in southern Mosul, Iraq
18 hours ago The EU will fund a project to support the digitization and archiving of evidentiary materials of ISIS crimes held by Iraqi authorities. 3.5 million EUR to this project, UNITAD will provide technical assistance and support to national authorities and those in the Kurdistan Region
AnsarAllah(Houthi) fighters with T-80 and T-72 tanks in Marib province. The exact date and location of the photo are unknown. Yemeni Army has a small number of T-80 before the war. twitter.com/Sunkway_China/status/1253650651852107776
Chief of staff of Hadi forces, Major General Sagir Bin Aziz, was injured by Houthis' rocketes when he was visiting the front line in Marib. A number of his men, including a captain, were killed in the rocket attack. twitter.com/Sunkway_China/status/1253657817027760129
3 hours ago Intense flight of the international coalition in the sky of Al-Shaddadi city, south of Hasaka
4 hours ago A military convoy of the Turkish army entered dozens of military vehicles from the Kafr Lossin crossing north of Idlib
15 hours ago Reports of a "loud explosion" in Homs city outskirt
a day ago (left) E. Syria: "fighting a ghost" - NDF widespread combing operations vs ISIS in the desert from E. Hama to Deir ez-Zur. NDF from Suqaylbiyah showing up brandnew equipment (pics 3-4)
3 hours ago NATO: The current level of violence caused by the Taliban in Afghanistan is unacceptable, and we demand that it abide by its agreement with the United States
4 hours ago The Taliban have rejected a ceasefire offer from the Afghan government for Ramadan as 'not rational or convincing'
17 hours ago The Canadian Embassy in Afghanistan expressed concern over the current political crisis & in a statement "urges all parties to place the interests of the people of Afghanistan as their common priority & to resolve their differences with utmost urgency."
a day ago (left) Magnetic IED blast targeting police patrol wounded at least 3 yesterday in Kunduz
32 minutes ago Bellingcat: We have determined the real identity of "Elbrus", a high-ranking FSB officer who was tied to the downing of MH17 and planning the extraterritorial assassination of Russia's enemies abroad. His name: Colonel Igor Anatolyevich Egorov twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1253675759769698307
3 hours ago Georgia's Ambassador to Ukraine Teimuraz Sharashenidze: "Possible appointment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to the post of Vice Minister for Reforms is likely to be taken in Tbilisi as an unfriendly and unacceptable strategic partner step"
3 hours ago Uspenskiy monastery in Odesa caught fire last night, arson suspected
4 hours ago Security Service of Ukraine found cache of ammunition in Olhynka village, Donetsk region
4 hours ago Putin signed a federal law on simplifying acquisition of citizenship of the Russian Federation
4 hours ago Ukrainian Ministry of Health: 7647 covid19 cases confirmed, 193 deaths. 477 cases in 24 hours
5 hours ago Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 13 times.
>Greek defense minister says Greek armed forces are ready for any further Turkish aggression and that they are not scared If they were, they'd be deploying to Syria and Libya to fight them. Greece just isn't ready to fight a fellow NATO country. All talk, no walk
Owen Martinez
They are defending their borders, not fighting against turkish imperialism
>They are defending their borders for me, those are european borders and there should be a huge european military. This is a shameful display of cowardice and dissent. EU could be a cool guy but actually is a pathetic mongrel.
Ayden Morris
I maintain the only way to defend Libyan, Syrian, Greek borders is to knock over the overlord in Ankara. These spot treatments are not enough!
Ryder Powell
EU Operation Ifini is supposed to be matching the Turk ship for ship in the Med right now, instead the Charles de Gaulle sailed in, got the coof from some Turkish trap, then sailed home
Turkey has aspirations that infringe on the Greek's territorial rights, therefore sitting within their borders is both unintelligent and cowardly of them. There are several actors fighting quite successfully against the Turkey as we speak, so the time to do something would be right now.
Of course nothing will happen because Europeanlets are too dumb & weak for geopolitics.
Zachary Anderson
Greece might as well open up a Varangian Russian military base in Tsargrad; Euros will never save them. They gotta be stockpiling tomatoes and shorting Turkish tomato futures yesterday
>imperoal standard is a picture with a horsemen holding imperial another banner Huh? Based department?
James Flores
tass.com/society/1149141 >MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. The World Health Organization (WHO) has included nine coronavirus vaccines that are being created in Russia on a list of promising options, according to a statement from the Russian government’s coronavirus hotline. "The WHO has put nine COVID-19 vaccines that are being developed in Russia on its list of promising options. These include six vaccines created by the Novosibirsk-based Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology… two vaccines developed by the Biocad company… and a vaccine made by the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums," the statement reads.
tass.com/politics/1149187 >BELGRADE, April 24. /TASS/. Attempts to deliberately misrepresent humanitarian campaigns of Russia in Italy and Serbia are cynical and will not be able to make their contents null and void, Russia’s Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said in an interview for Serbian Vecernje Novosti daily published on Friday. "I would like to remind [you] that as was the case with Serbia, the decision to send help to Italy was made after receiving a direct appeal of the Italian leadership, of Prime Minister [Giuseppe] Conte. Russia equally responded to every single appeal [for help] coming from the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States — TASS], Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
tass.com/society/1149221 >MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. Local governments of the Italian provinces of Apulia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia have addressed Russia with the request for aid in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic, Russian Ambassador to Italy Sergei Razov said during a video link from Rome on Friday. "Heads of Italian regions are addressing us with official requests to send our military officers [to carry out disinfection — TASS]. Such requests came from the governors of Piedmont, Apulia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia," he said. Razov stressed that Russian aid is not political.
To placate him Brussels would cede the entirety of Greece to Erdoğan, whereupon a couple of basedboy cartoonists in Paris and Berlin would publish 'scathing' caricatures or compare him to gollum again. That's the height of European power.
Ethan Fisher
youtube.com/watch?v=dlejGJKEfbY >A flotilla of some 24 oil tankers was filmed anchored off the coast of Long Beach in Southern California on Thursday. That's significantly higher than the number normally waiting to unload crude from Mexico or Alaska, as oil companies have run out of storage facilities in the US and across the globe as they rush to offload oil, reflecting the huge drop in the price of crude. Many firms are also said to be storing oil aboard ships amid the absence of alternatives.
