Syrian President Designates Arnous to Form New Gov’t Thought for Today DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Syrian President Bashar al- Assad designated Hussein Arnous to form a new government, If two opposite theories are propagated one the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, following a parliamen- tary election in July. will be wrong. Hussein Arnous was prime minister in the outgoing govern- ment, appointed by President Assad in June to replace Imad Khamis. Amir al-Momeneen Ali (AS)

VOL NO: LV 11238 TEHRAN / Est.1959 Wednesday, August 26, 2020, Shahrivar 5, 1399, Muharram 6, 1442 Palestine: U.S. Trying to U.S. Benefits From Terrorist Break Apart Region Efforts Disrupting Syria: Russia of the Euphrates. promised that the operation Pointing to a recent uptick in would continue until the com- terrorist activity in the Syrian plete destruction of all U.S.- Desert area, the spokesman said controlled armed groups in the it could be attributed to an ‘am- area. nesty’ program for former mili- The comments by the spokes- tants by Washington’s Kurdish man came as Russia reported allies. on Tuesday that a joint Russia- The spokesman also pointed to Turkey patrol came under fire efforts by the militants to com- in Idlib, Syria. The incident mit acts of sabotage. Earlier this resulted in an armored vehicle month, a Russian major general being damaged and two Rus- Palestinians take part in a protest against the United Arab Emirates’ deal with was killed after an improvised sian servicemen being slightly the Zionist regime to normalize relations, in Gaza City August 19, 2020. explosive device (IED) laid by injured. RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – Pal- shuttling between the two sides to militants went off, he recalled. “On August 25, during the estinian officials on Tuesday said the try to broker a renewal of the truce, “By sabotaging transport 23d joint Russian-Turkish pa- U.S. government is trying to break so far without result. communications and carrying trol along the M-4 highway in the region apart. A day earlier, the regime’s mili- out acts of sabotage against the vicinity of the Urum al-Joz Their accusations came in re- tary’s jet fighters struck several A spokesman for the Russian military grouping in Syria says terrorists oper- Syrian oil and gas industry fa- settlement in the Idlib de-es- sponse to the ongoing tour of U.S. positions in the eastern part of the ating in the vast desert area of central Syria continue to disrupt the region’s cilities, by attacking patrols and calation zone’s southern part, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo besieged strip, killing four and in- reconstruction, and the U.S. is the primary beneficiary. the posts of Syrian Army units, the patrol motorcade was fired in the Middle East over promoting juring at least one other Palestin- MOSCOW (Dispatches) – of Syria and the establishment militants are destabilizing the upon from a hand anti-tank gre- Arab normalization with the Zion- ian. Terrorists operating in the vast of relations between local Arab situation in the region. On Au- nade launcher. As a result, an ist regime. The Palestinian resistance move- desert area of central Syria tribes and Damascus. Such a gust 18, an explosion of an IED armored personnel carrier of “Arming Israel instead of keep- ment, Hamas, says the four were continue to disrupt the region’s situation primarily benefits the planted by terrorists in Dayr the Russian military police was ing it to the international legiti- killed in a blast during “prepara- reconstruction, and the U.S. is United States, and allows them al-Zawr province killed senior damaged. Two Russian service- macy clearly shows that Washing- tions to remove the criminal entity the primary beneficiary, as it to justify their presence in the Russian military advisor Maj. men sustained light concus- ton is an ally that shares the Israeli from our occupied land.” allows Washington to justify country’s east,” the spokesman Gen. Vyacheslav Gladkikh,” sions,” the centre said. occupation and its crimes against The explosion which killed the its continued illegal military said. the spokesman recalled. According to the press release, the Palestinian people,” said Saleh four men has apparently taken place deployment in the country’s According to the MoD, rem- The spokesman said that Rus- the Russian and Turkish com- Rafat, a member of the Palestine at a Palestinian Islamic Jihad mili- northeast, a spokesman for the nants of Daesh terrorists pres- sian forces and their Syrian al- manders in Syria are currently Liberation Organization (PLO) tary compound in the northern Gaza Russian military grouping in ently operating in Syria have lies conducted an operation to cooperating with the Syrian Executive Committee, in a press City neighborhood of Shejaiya. Syria said Tuesday. received training in U.S.-oc- clear the Syrian Desert region security forces to determine statement. Hamas has warned that it will ac- “Through their actions, the cupied areas of the country, of the terrorist remnants in a which one of the armed groups The remarks came as the Zionist cept nothing less than the lifting of terrorists disrupt the process of including the at-Tanf garrison major operation conducted be- present in Idlib could have been regime’s tanks and aircraft carried the Gaza blockade for calm to be socio-economic reconstruction and U.S.-controlled areas east tween August 18 and 24, and behind the attack. out new strikes in Gaza on Tuesday. restored to southern occupied ter- The Zionist regime has bombed the ritories. enclave almost daily since August 6, Meanwhile a senior Hamas offi- allegedly in response to the airborne cial told the TV channel Palestine Syria Condemns Turkey for Cutting Off Water incendiary devices launched into Today on Monday that the retalia- the occupied territories. tory measures would continue until Supply in Hasakah The regime has also tightened their demands were met. the blockade. It has banned Gaza “It is our right to break this siege,” fishermen from going to sea and Ismail Radwan said in comments DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – pumping of water from Allouk Syrian Observatory for Human Turkish and U.S. trooops, Dae- closed its goods crossing with the capping another day in which ter- The Syrian Foreign Ministry has station for 16 times over the Rights watchdog has said Tur- sh and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham territory, prompting the closure of rorists in Gaza sent dozens of in- condemned the cutting off of wa- past few months,” the statement key cut off water in Hasakah as (HTS) terrorists and militants Gaza’s sole power plant for want cendiary balloons toward Israel, ter supply by Turkey in the north- read. the Kurds, who controls much affiliated with the so-called of fuel. sparking at least 36 fires in towns eastern province of Hasakah, state The water has been cut off of Hasakah, had refused to feed Syrian Democratic Forces An Egyptian delegation has been bordering the coastal enclave. news agency SANA reported. for over two weeks, affecting 1 electricity to areas controlled (SDF) continue to undermine Cutting off the water in the Al- million people in Hasakah, the by the Turkey-backed militants Syria’s sovereignty and inde- louk water station in the north- ministry said. in the countryside of Hasakah. pendence in a gross violation Taliban Attack Afghan Base ern countryside of Hasakah is a The statement noted that the The Syrian foreign ministry of the international law and UN “crime against humanity,” the measure has prevented water highlighted that the Damascus Charter. as Pakistan Pushes for Talks ministry said in a statement. from reaching residents of the government as well as national On Friday, Syria’s perma- Mazar-i-Sharif (Dispatches) – the video, which surfaced earlier “Turkey and its proxies, with provincial capital city of Ha- humanitarian organizations and nent representative to the UN Six people, including an assailant, this month. the blessing of the U.S. admin- sakah and other neighborhoods provincial authorities have acti- Bashar al-Jaafari appealed to were killed and 32 people wound- It comes as the Pakistani gov- istration and allied terrorists, over the past two weeks, and vated mechanisms to deal with United Nations Secretary Gen- ed after a Taliban militants’ truck ernment was due to meet key have used water as a weapon that it comes at the time when the situation, but deployment of eral Antonio Guterres to inter- bomb blast outside a special Taliban negotiators in Islamabad against Syrian women, chil- locals have to bear scorching U.S. and Turkish forces to the vene immediately and to utilize forces’ camp in northern Afghani- to push for talks in Afghanistan. dren, the elderly and disabled weather conditions and rising northern part of Syria is slow- all available means in order to stan’s Balkh province on Tuesday, Pakistan has said negotiations people for inhumane and po- cases of coronavirus infection. ing down the process. stop water supply cut by Turk- an army source confirmed. are the only way forward in Af- litical purposes, stopping the The Britain-based so-called The statement stressed that ish troops in Hasakah. The incident occurred in Balkh ghanistan and sees its role as a district in central part of Balkh “facilitator”. province roughly at 8:45 a.m. The warring Taliban and Af- Lebanon Discovers Containers of Dangerous local time, and the casualties ghan government had signaled were shifted to military and ci- they were prepared to launch ne- Materials in Beirut vilian hospitals by ambulances gotiations immediately after the BEIRUT (Dispatches) – The Lebanese army explosion prompted the government of Prime However, it is not just children who have and army vehicles, Hanif Rezai, Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, has announced that its teams have discovered 25 Minister Hassan Diab to resign. started showing signs of trauma in the wake of spokesman of army Corps 209 which ended earlier this month, containers of dihydrogen monoxide (hydric acid) A report by UNICEF says approximately the explosion. A third of households surveyed Shaheen based in the region, but the process remains bogged and 54 containers of other dangerous materials half of children in Beirut have started show- by UNICEF, comprising 940 families, report- told Xinhua. down over a controversial pris- in Beirut port, Anadolu reported. ing signs of trauma and extreme stress since ed adults were also displaying similar symp- Those killed included two oner swap. The army said in a statement that its spe- a massive explosion rocked the city on 4 Au- toms of stress and trauma. While, a report by army soldiers, three civilians Both sides have fought for cialized teams, in cooperation with a French gust. Reuters yesterday said adult interviewees were and the attacker, and 26 civilians nearly two decades in a conflict experts, investigated the port area during the “Between 10 and 17 August, half of respon- jumpy and startled at even the slightest sound. and six army soldiers wounded. that has left tens of thousands of period between 14-22 August, noting that the dents reported that children in their households Lebanese judicial authorities arrested on Taliban spokesman Zabihullah people dead. materials were “treated according to scientific were showing changes in behavior or signs of Tuesday three additional suspects over the Mujahid said on Twitter that the According to Afghan official means and safe methods”. trauma or extreme stress following the explo- explosions of Beirut’s port, making the total attack was revenge for a video data, the Taliban have increased The army’s announcement is the first of its sions,” the report reads. number of arrested people over this case 12. circulating online that appeared their bombings and other assaults kind since the huge explosion that occurred in The most common symptoms, UNICEF said, Earlier this month, three senior officials at to show Afghan troops desecrat- by 70 percent since they signed the port on 4 August, killed nearly 200 people were severe anxiety; quietness or withdraw- Port of Beirut were arrested, including Gen- ing the bodies of Taliban mili- a deal with the United States in and wounded more than 6,000 others. Dam- ing from parents and families; nightmares and eral Director of Customs Badri Daher, former tants in the south. February. Under that agreement, age was estimated by Beirut’s Governor to trouble sleeping; as well as aggressive behav- Customs Director Chafic Merhi and Director The Ministry of Defense has the U.S. will withdraw its forces be valued at over 10 billion U.S. dollars. The ior. General of Beirut Port Hassan Koraytem. launched an investigation into from Afghanistan.