Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/iran-and-russia-sign-25bn-nuclear-plant-deal Russia and Iran have reached an agreement over the construction of four additional nuclear reactors in southern Iran. The deal will cost Iran $25 billion for four powerplants on a 1,235 acre site in the Hormozgan Province, north of the United Arab Emirates and Oman. The new reactors could, as according to Iran’s nuclear agency, generate 5GW of… Read more »
The Trump administration has approved a series of secret agreements allowing US companies to explore selling nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, according to a leaked document. US energy secretary Rick Perry gave the approvals, known as Part 810 authorisations, to six firms to do preliminary work on nuclear power ahead of any deal but not ship equipment that would go into a plant, a source with… Read more »
ISIS is losing ground in Syria and Iraq. In Mosul, the Iraqi Army seems to be soundly defeating its insurgent opponents. The liberation of cities such as Palmyra, Aleppo, and Al-Bab in Syria, and Mosul and Fallujah in Iraq, show the terrorist group is on the desperate defense. The Iraqi Army’s push into Mosul supported by US and coalition airstrikes,… Read more »
Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, at least 3,613 Kurdish soldiers have been killed fighting the totalitarian Islamic State and the little-better authoritarian alternative, Bashar Al-Assad’s government. The Kurdish YPG (“People’s Protection Units”) is the largest portion of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a military coalition of Kurds and Arabs that the United States backs through weapons sales… Read more »
(BBC News) Russia’s military says rebel groups have increased attacks in Syria despite a ceasefire and has urged the US to act or be responsible for its collapse. Russian generals said attacks by rebels, some US-backed, had increased sharply over the past 24 hours. Gen Viktor Poznikhir said the rebel groups had “not met a single obligation” of the truce.
(The Telegraph) The United Nations Security Council has convened at the behest of the Russians after dozens of Syrian soldiers were accidentally killed in a US coalition bombing raid. It met within hours of the Obama administration expressing its regret at the strikes on Jabal Therdeh, southwest of the Deir Ezzor airport in eastern Syria. According to Russian estimates 62… Read more »