Steven Sahiounie

Steven Sahouni is an independent Syrian political analyst and writer based in Lebanon; he has been covering the Syrian crisis since it's onset in 2011 and has published several articles in numerous media outlets - He is regularly interviewed by US, Canadian and German media.

Estados Unidos acusado de utilizar ayuda alimentaria para contrabandear armas a militantes en el campo de refugiados de Rukban en Siria

Los camiones de ayuda de la ONU, según fuentes militares rusas, se están utilizando para entregar no solo alimentos y suministros a los civiles afectados, sino también armas y municiones a Maghawir Al-Thawra.

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A U.S.-backed anti-government fighter mans a heavy automatic machine gun, left, next to an American soldier as they take their positions at Tanf, a border crossing between Syria and Iraq (Hammurabi’s Justice News/AP)

DAMASCUS (Mideast Discourse) -- While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken center stage in the media, little attention is being paid to a tragedy playing out in southeastern Syria. Far away from the western media coverage of the “Islamic State of Idlib”, the scene is set in a desolate area on the border between Syria and Iraq, adjacent to the illegal

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Coronavirus: después de que la UE no pudo entregar, Italia busca ayuda en Rusia

La escena política global actual está cambiando rápidamente como resultado del coronavirus. Están surgiendo nuevas superpotencias y las antiguas potencias se están debilitando ante la crisis.

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Por Steven Sahiounie
Coronavirus Russia Italy

ROME (Mideast Discourse) -- More than 15 military transport planes flew from Russia to Italy delivering disinfection units, 180 doctors, 100 personnel which include specialists in biological protection, nurses, ventilators, and masks. The experts sent to Italy have worked on international epidemics including African Swine Fever and in developing an

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El carnicero de Khiam: cómo Trump trajo a casa el famoso criminal de guerra Amer Fakhoury

Amer Fakhoury fue recordado en el Líbano como "El carnicero de Khiam", y aunque ahora está de regreso en los Estados Unidos, su nombre y sus crímenes nunca serán olvidados en la tierra de su nacimiento.

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Amer Fakhoury Feature photo

Beirut, Lebanon (Mideast Discourse) -- Amer Fakhoury escaped from Beirut, Lebanon on a US military helicopter on March 19. He had been arrested in September, betting his American passport would save him from justice, and it did.  He had been charged and convicted of torture, kidnapping, and collaborating with the enemy in Lebanon, and had received

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El nuevo alto el fuego Idlib obliga a los extremistas respaldados por Turquía a retroceder

Putin y Erdogan se encontraron en Moscú en un último esfuerzo para llegar a un acuerdo sobre la creciente violencia en Idlib, Siria. Steven Sahiounie considera quién prevaleció y qué es lo que probablemente vendrá después.

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Por Steven Sahiounie
Idlib Syria Feature photo

Mideast Discourse — Turkey increased its military invasion of Syria last month to prevent the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) from liberating Idlib province from the occupation of terrorists, who are supported by Turkey and had been supported by the US before 2017 when President Trump cut off their funding through the CIA. The invasion of thousands of

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Las huellas digitales de Francia están en todos los grupos terroristas en Idlib, Siria

El apoyo de Francia a los grupos extremistas en Siria, particularmente cerca de Idlib, se remonta a los primeros días de la rebelión antigubernamental respaldada por la CIA en 2011.

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Syria Idlib Feature photo

Mideast Discourse -- FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr, a specialist in jihadist networks, recently spoke via Skype with French recruiter Omar Omsen, the head of the jihadist group Furkat-al-Ghuraba, an Al Qaeda affiliate in Idlib. There are numerous French terrorists in Idlib today, fighting to establish an Islamic state out of a small piece of secular

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Iraq a los Estados Unidos: ¿Qué parte de "Go Home" no entiendes?

Incluso entre las facciones más pro-estadounidenses de Iraq, los llamados a "Yankee go home" se han vuelto cada vez más fuertes.

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Por Steven Sahiounie
Iraq US Feature photo

Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases housing US troops in Iraq early hours of Wednesday morning. The al-Assad airbase in western Iraq was hit by 17 missiles, and 5 targeted at a base in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.  No US casualties were immediately reported. Iran’s supreme leader,

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The Last Bus to Idlib: Terrorist Safe-Haven in Syria About to Face a Cleaning Out

One by one, all other areas in Syria under terrorist control have fallen, and now the final battle for Idlib looms large on the horizon.

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An al-Qaeda-linked militant standing in a bus, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon route to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. Syrian Central Military Media via AP

IDLIB, SYRIA (Analysis) -- Green city buses have delivered their last passengers to Idlib. In a recurring pattern across Syria, at the end of every battle in which Syrian government forces won back their territory, the Russian Center for Reconciliation has made deals with armed fighters: surrender and return to civilian life, or take the free bus

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