Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National accord (GNA) yesterday targeted three fuel tankers as they made their way to supply the militia of renegade Major General Khalifa Haftar south of the capital, Tripoli. The media centre of the GNA’s Volcano of Rage operation said on Facebook that the Libyan Air Force targeted three fuel tankers south of the city of Bani Walid, while […]
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While both the US and Iran are battling coronavirus, belligerent words haven’t been forgotten. President Donald Trump claimed Iran could be planning an attack on US forces in Iraq and warned it would pay a “very heavy price.” “Upon information and belief, Iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US troops and/or assets in Iraq,” Trump warned on Twitter Wednesday afternoon. He added […]
A commander in the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to General Khalifa Haftar was killed yesterday along with one of his aides in clashes with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) forces in Al-Washka, Sputnik has reported. They were named by a military source as LNA commander Salem Driaq and Gaddafi Al-Sadai. Driaq was the commander of the Sirte operations room. The LNA has […]
Chris Graythen/Getty Images President Donald Trump praised liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Friday for “showing how GREAT a job the Federal Government is doing!” After Maddow had U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commanding General Todd Semonite on her show, President Trump posted on Twitter, “Thank you to Rachel @Maddow for putting our Military on full display, and showing how GREAT a job the Federal Government […]
Israeli occupation forces demolished a farm building and water well yesterday in Deir Ballut to the west of Salfit, Wafa news agency has reported. The Governor of Salfit, Abdallah Kmeil, said that Israelis entered Wadi Sarida with a bulldozer which tore down the building and well belonging to Aziz Yusef Abdullah. Kmeil suggested that the Israelis are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis and the resultant […]
Forces from the US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Iraq began withdrawing from an air base in the north of the country yesterday and handed over the territory to Baghdad as part of an effort to reduce the number of foreign fighters in the region. Al-Qayyarah Air Base in the south of the city of Mosul, from which the Deash militant group announced its self-declared caliphate in […]
Rights Of Nature Law Forces Revocation Of Fracking Permit March 27, 2020 Rights Of Nature Law Forces Revocation Of Fracking Permit2020-03-272020-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/58dec40a1400002000072b0b-e1585313401291.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Signs in Grant Township, Pennsylvania, oppose a fracking wastewater injection well and advocate for “home rule,” which gives the township broad power to legislate. Keith Boyer, The Contently Foundation. Grant Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania – In an extraordinary reversal, last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) […]
Egyptian authorities forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported research claiming real coronavirus figures could be higher than official numbers, the UK newspaper reported Thursday, Anadolu reports. Security services told Ruth Michaelson to leave immediately after her accreditation was cancelled and she was accused of misreporting a study and causing public panic. Last week, Egyptian officials revoked my press card and then […]
Security Belt Forces, backed by the UAE, continue to block shipments of medical equipment sent by WHO to fight coronavirus in Yemeni areas liberated from the Houthis, Yemen Portal reported yesterday. Sources in Aden Port said that the Security Belt Forces are blocking the medical equipment which arrived on Tuesday. The equipment consists of 81 ambulances, 15 mobile clinics and 65 artificial respirators. According to sources, […]
A spokesman for the Jordanian armed forces, Moukhles Moufleh, has said that as many as 880 violations of the mass lockdown imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the kingdom were recorded in the past 24 hours. Moufleh added during a press briefing held on Monday that the civil defence forces have conducted medical examinations for 6,000 sick people over the past 24 hours. READ: Jordan […]
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Two expatriate workers have been killed and a citizen wounded in a raid by Khalifa Haftar militias, on the outskirts of Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli. This was announced by the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday in a statement published by the Media Office of the Volcano of Rage Operation on Facebook. The brief statement indicated that the artillery shelling, carried out by the […]
The Israeli army reportedly killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Anadolu reports. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that a Palestinian was martyred when the Israeli army opened fire in the Nai’lin region west of Ramallah. The statement noted that the identity of the martyred Palestinian has not yet been clarified. Eyewitnesses told an Anadolu Agency reporter that another Palestinian was wounded […]
A rocket attack by forces of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar on Sunday killed one person and also injured two children from the same family, said the country’s UN-recognized government. Haftar militia rockets hit a house in Ain Zara, south of the capital Tripoli, said a statement by the Volcano of Rage Operation, affiliated with the Government of National Accord (GNA). Ahmed Al-Mismari, spokesman for the Haftar […]
The Saudi-backed forces fighting on behalf of the exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi claimed yesterday to be in control of several military sites in the Al-Yatimah area, north of Al-Jawf province, where fierce battles against the joint Houthi and Yemeni armed forces have been taking place over the past two months. According to Al-Mawqea Post, Houthi positions in the Al-Wajaf front were attacked by […]
The government in Kabul said on Thursday it has ordered Afghanistan’s forces to switch to an “active defense posture” as the Taliban continued to attack even after the militants signed a deal with the US. “The Taliban continued high level of violence despite the peace agreement,” acting Defense Minister Asadullah Kalid said in a video statement. “An active defense posture will reduce the restrictions on Afghan […]
Britain has pulled some of its forces home from a training mission in Iraq, due to a slowdown in operations as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The illness has forced the British military to reassess its priorities. An unspecified number of the 400 or so British troops will be pulled from Iraq and sent home to “support loved ones facing the challenges of the virus,” […]
Hungary will deploy military personnel to monitor the operations of 140 state companies providing critical services during the coronavirus pandemic, Defense Minister Tibor Benko has said. The newly created task forces, consisting of several soldiers, police officers, and disaster unit workers, will provide regular briefings on the companies to the Defense Ministry, Benko told public television late on Wednesday. PM Viktor Orban’s government declared a state […]
Yemeni security services in Socotra have seized an Emirati humanitarian ship carrying weapons and armoured vehicles, local sources said. According to the sources, the “aid” ship belonged to the Khalifa Foundation for Humanitarian Affairs which is run by the UAE delegate in Socotra, Brigadier Khalfan Al-Mazroui. A local official said the Emirati ship was carrying dozens of cars and equipment that were going to be distributed […]
Iranian forces and their proxies in Syria have recruited around 9,000 young fighters from local Shia communities within the south and north-east of the country, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) yesterday. Iranian-backed Shia militias reportedly recruited over 5,350 young men who volunteered from the southern provinces of Syria and almost 3,600 from the north-eastern provinces east of the Euphrates River. In the southern […]
The government in Stockholm said on Monday it had decided to send troops to Mali to join French-led special forces that are fighting militants linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in the Sahel region of North Africa. The Social Democrat and Green coalition said that Sweden would contribute a rapid reaction force of up to 150 troops and helicopters as part of international […]
Yemeni forces backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday prevented a meeting of officials of the internationally-recognised government in the presidential palace in Yemen’s southern province of Aden. Local media quoted an official source as saying that the Security Belt Forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), which has been controlling the city since August, closed Al- Ma’asheek presidential palace and prevented a meeting that was scheduled […]
Sunday morning, eleven days after California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, which has so far afflicted 335 people in the state, put another 11,500 under self-monitoring, and sent everyone else into “social distancing” protocols, influencer pastor Chad Veach uploaded a video to Instagram from a crowded room. “Alright we’re here, we’re getting ready to record,” Veach told the camera, […]
Africa 18:13 GMT 15.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104785/00/1047850067_0:129:2168:1348_1200x675_80_0_0_0e106fcd42df74811129136b29beff05.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/africa/202003151078573863-libyas-un-backed-forces-building-getaway-base-near-tunisia/ CAIRO (Sputnik) – The UN-backed Government of National Accord in Libya is building a base near Tunisia to escape to if the Libyan National Army (LNA) seizes the capital, a spokesman for the eastern-based administration said Sunday. “The terrorists are trying to build a base on the border with Tunisia so that they […]
Activists posted a new video on social media showing Syrian regime forces desecrating tombs in a cemetery in the countryside of Idlib, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. The Syrian regime forces appear in the video destroying the tombstones and insulting the dead, because they belonged to the opposition of the Syrian regime. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Basil Al-Sawadi, from the Syrian regime forces, […]