The Daily Brief 2020-10-10

by · AMN

This is a summary of 16 AMN articles on the following subjects: Homs, Latakia, Syria, Tartous, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh, Turkey, North_Korea, Idlib, Egypt, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon.

Categories covered in this brief: Syria, Turkey, World-News, North-Africa, Middleeast, Palestine, Lebanon

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Catastrophic fires in Syria not caused by nature, foul play suspected: researcher

Published 2020-10-10 21:24:55 by News Desk in Syria

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 P.M.) – A Syrian researcher told RT Arabic on Saturday that the fires in Syria appear to be caused intentionally and not natural factors. “In climatology, it is difficult for a fire to happen at night with a natural cause, and there must be an active hand,” Riad Qara Falah, professor of climate science in the geography department at Tishreen University told RT. On what prompted him to come to this conclusion, Falah told RT that the fires occurred at night, and it is known that this is the coldest time of the day. This means, according… Read on ->

Tags: Homs, Latakia, Syria, Tartous

Turkey will ‘only support’ Azerbaijan’s decisions on Karabakh issue

Published 2020-10-10 21:02:33 by News Desk in Turkey, World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:50 P.M.) – In a statement on Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu affirmed his country’s support for the decisions that Azerbaijan would accept in the negotiations related to the humanitarian truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the conflict over Karabakh. In a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ceyhun Permov, the Turkish Foreign Minister stressed that the truce talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia are important and Ankara will support Baku’s decision. According to the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, Cavusoglu said that “Turkey will only support the decisions that Azerbaijan accepts.” he Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh, Turkey

North Korea unveils massive bomb during military parade: video

Published 2020-10-10 20:46:53 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:20 P.M.) – During a military parade on Saturday, North Korea unveiled its largest ICBM that is carried by a mobile launch pad. Korean Central Television has broadcast footage of what appears to be a new, never-before-seen intercontinental ballistic missile at a pre-dawn military parade dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party. Four of the missiles were shown being carried aboard transporter-erector vehicles equipped with 11 axles, which is two axles more than the nine-axle transport erector launcher previously photographed carrying the Hwasong-15 nuclear-capable ICBM. The missile system was one of… Read on ->

Tags: North_Korea

Syrian jihadist battle ends in dramatic fashion

Published 2020-10-10 20:22:53 by News Desk in Syria

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:00 P.M.) – A heavy battle broke out between rival jihadist groups on Saturday, when Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) clashed inside the Idlib Governorate. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Islamic State and Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham clashed along the Idlib-Aleppo administrative border after HTS encircled a house with ISIS operatives inside. The SOHR report said the two parties were involved in a fierce firefight that resulted in three Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham members being killed. However, with nowhere to go and refusing the calls to surrender, the Islamic State terrorists… Read on ->

Tags: Idlib, Syria

Azerbaijani forces attempt to capture strategic city along roadway to Karabakh capital

Published 2020-10-10 18:50:04 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 P.M.) – The Azerbaijani military is currently attempting to advance to the city of Hadrut, where they hope to establish a presence along a key roadway to the capital of Karabakh, Stepanakert. According to local reports from the Karabakh region, the Azerbaijani military is heavily targeting Hadrut with artillery and gunfire, in an attempt to weaken the forces of the Artsakh Defense Army (ADA). Despite agreeing to a ceasefire in Moscow, the Azerbaijani military has continued to attack the Armenian forces at the southern and northern axes of the Karabakh region. For the Azerbaijani military, seizing Hadrut… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan

Egypt and Russia prepare for first ever naval exercise in the Black Sea

Published 2020-10-10 18:17:08 by News Desk in North-Africa

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:50 P.M.) – In a statement released this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the preparation for holding joint naval exercises for the first time between the Russian and Egyptian armies in the Black Sea. According to the statement published by the Russian Defense Ministry on its official website, “The delegations of the Russian Navy and the Egyptian Navy held a 3-day conference on preparing and holding the joint Friendship Bridge exercises -2020”. The statement said that the two countries would draw up a “plan for the exercises that will take place in the Black Sea for… Read on ->

Tags: Egypt, Russia

Armenia and Karabakh are ‘last line of defense’ against Turkish expansion: PM

Published 2020-10-10 17:49:22 by News Desk in Turkey, World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:30 P.M.) – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned on Saturday, the countries of the world about the recent Turkish expansion in the region. During his speech with an Armenian agency, Pashinyan called on the international community to urgently intervene in the Karabakh conflict, explaining that Armenia and the Karabakh Republic represent the last line of defense to Turkey’s expansionist insatiable. Pashinyan pointed out that “if the international community did not intervene in the current events in the region, it would soon see the Turks at the gates of Vienna as it happened in the 17th century.” He… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Karabakh

Alleged video of Azerbaijan destroying Armenian S-300

Published 2020-10-10 17:27:17 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:00 P.M.) – A Russian YouTube channel released this week, footage of the alleged Azerbaijani attack on an Armenian S-300 battery in the Karabakh region. According to the ‘Caliber’ YouTube channel, an Azerbaijani aircraft bombed the S-300 battery in the Karabakh region, which resulted in its subsequent destruction. In the video the channel released, the alleged Azerbaijani aircraft can be seen zeroing in on the target before opening fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvvT9GQFB5U It should be noted that despite this claim, the remains unverified and there has been no mention of its destruction by the Armenian Ministry of Defense.

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan

Watch: Armenian forces destroy Azerbaijani tank in Karabakh

Published 2020-10-10 13:38:21 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:30 P.M.) – On Friday, the Armenian Ministry of Defense released a video of the Artsakh Defense Army destroying a tank belonging to the Azerbaijani Army in Karabakh. In the short video released by the Press Secretary of the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Shushan Stepanyan, the Artsakh Defense Army can be seen scoring a direct hit on an Azerbaijani tank that was moving through an undisclosed part of the Karabakh region earlier this week. https://www.facebook.com/100000785095088/videos/3303338343035636/ The Nagorno-Karabakh region, also known as Artsakh, declared independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, resulting in a conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh

Non-Aligned Movement demands Israel withdraw to 1967 borders

Published 2020-10-10 13:22:50 by News Desk in Middleeast, Palestine, Syria, World-News

The 120 member-strong Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has issued a political declaration whose points include the demand that Israel withdraw from occupied Syrian territories in the Golan. In a statement published Friday after a virtual ministerial meeting, the NAM declared that its members “condemn all measures taking by Israel, the Occupying power, to alter the legal, physical and demographic status of the Occupied Syrian Golan, and demand once again that Israel should abide by the United Nations Security council resolution 497 (1981), and to withdraw fully from the Occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of 4 June 1967, in the implementation… Read on ->

Tags: Israel, Palestine, Syria

Azerbaijan has given Armenia a last chance to withdraw from Karabakh: Turkish FM

Published 2020-10-10 13:06:40 by News Desk in Turkey, World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:00 P.M.) – The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the ceasefire in Karabakh, noting at the same time that this step is not a substitute for the final settlement of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict in the region. In its statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said, “Azerbaijan has given Armenia a last chance to withdraw from the lands it occupies,” stressing that “Azerbaijan has shown to Armenia and the whole world that it is capable of its own capabilities to liberate its occupied lands.” “The ceasefire declared in Karabakh for humanitarian reasons, the exchange of prisoners and the… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Turkey

Azerbaijan launches heavy attacks in Karabakh despite ceasefire agreement

Published 2020-10-10 12:37:40 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:20 P.M.) – On Saturday, the Armenian Ministry of Defense announced that hostilities continued in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, despite the announced ceasefire agreement. The Press Secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, said that the Azerbaijani side used drones to strike a village in Armenian territory. “After the statement of MFAs of #Russia, #Armenia & #Azerbaijan, the enemy intensified the use of UAVs in the southern direction. The units of the #DefenseArmy halt all the attacks of the enemy, causing heavy losses to manpower,” Stepanyan said. “Ignoring the ceasefire announced for humanitarian purposes effective as of October… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh

Video footage from most dangerous front-line city in Karabakh

Published 2020-10-10 11:39:24 by News Desk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:20 A.M.) – The Anna News Agency visited the most contested city in Karabakh after the Azerbaijani forces captured Jebrail earlier this week. According to Anna News, Martakert is the most dangerous frontline city in Nagorno-Karabakh, as the front line runs literally along its outskirts. Therefore, instead of an air raid, artillery cannonade is constantly heard here. The opposing sides are trying to suppress each other’s firing points and the civilian population suffers from this. Almost all residents left their homes in Martakert after the Azerbaijani forces began heavily bombarding the city. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIgMW-bxNU With the announcement of a ceasefire… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh

Massive fires cause wide-spread devastation in Syria and Lebanon

Published 2020-10-10 10:51:38 by News Desk in Lebanon, Syria

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:30 A.M.) – The fires in Lebanon and Syria have caused wide-spread devastation, amid ongoing humanitarian crises inside both Levantine nations. “The situation in Latakia is tragic,” is how the Minister of Local Administration and Environment in Syria, Hussein Makhlouf, described the effects of the fires, most of which are still out of control. Makhlouf said that “the fires are burning randomly and in several dispersed areas, so it is difficult to concentrate efforts in one area.” He pointed out that the mechanisms and firefighting teams are being distributed to prevent the fire from reaching the homes and… Read on ->

Tags: Lebanon, Syria

Azerbaijani drones wreak havoc from above as several vehicles destroyed in Karabakh: videos

Published 2020-10-10 10:24:20 by Newsdesk in World-News

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:00 A.M.) – The Azerbaijani military’s drones have been wreaking havoc across the Karabakh region, as these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been seen carrying out several powerful attacks against the Armenian forces. In a series of videos released over the last ten hours, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense has been showing off their drone capabilities in a number of strikes on the Armenian military vehicles in the Karabakh region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FDvA6PaR3I As seen in the first video, the drone strikes can be seen stalking the enemy vehicles before locking in to strike them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhRMQcmI7QU According to the Azerbaijani… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh

Armenia and Azerbaijan reach ceasefire after intense negotiations in Moscow

Published 2020-10-10 09:44:54 by News Desk in World-News

After 10 hours of negotiations in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, beginning 10 October to exchange prisoners and the bodies of those who were killed. “A ceasefire has been announced, beginning 12:00 on 10 October, 2020, for humanitarian purposes for the exchange of prisoners of war and other detainees, and bodies of the dead, to be mediated in accordance with the criteria of the International Committee of the Red Cross”, the statement said. According to the statement, Baku and Yerevan agreed to start “substantive” talks on the… Read on ->

Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia

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