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PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on June 25 in last 12 hours from BulgarianMilitary.com news team: UN warns of humanitarian disaster in Syria's Idlib In Syria, the devastation of continued air raids on Idlib is being laid bare, AlJazeera reported. Nearly 500 civilians - many of them women and children - have been killed since…

NEW YORK, (BM) - United Nations officials alleged that Syria's and Russia's forces may be deliberately targeting hospitals and schools in the rebel-held northwest of Syria as a tactic aimed at "terrorising" civilians, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting AlJazeera. Both Syria and Russia denied the accusations on Tuesday. UN aid chief Mark…

NEW YORK, (BGM) - The United Arab Emirates told United Nations Security Council members on Thursday that attacks on four tankers off its coast on May 12 bore the hallmarks of a “sophisticated and coordinated operation,” most likely by a state actor, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Reuters. In a document on the briefing to Security…

JERUSALEM, (BGM) - Israel says Iran continues ballistic missile launches, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Jane`s. Iran launched a Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) in December 2018, the Israeli representative to the UN told the Security Council in a letter released on 5 June. Danny Danon said there had been seven…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) - The United Nations envoy for Libya has warned that the battle for Tripoli is "just the start of a long and bloody war", while calling for an immediate halt to arms shipments to all parties involved in the conflict, Middle East Eye reported. Ghassan Salame told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that "many countries" were…

RAMALLAH, State of Palestine (BulgarianMilitary.com) - A Palestinian baby was killed on Saturday as the Israeli military pounded the Gaza Strip with air strikes and artillery, while scores of rockets were fired towards Israel from the coastal enclave, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Middle East Eye. According to the Gaza health…

BAMAKO, Mali (BulgarianMilitary.com) - Israeli security experts are now building protection strategies for UN employees in Africa, learned BulgarianMilitary.com The experts are ex-military and security services and have been hired by the UN for this mission. So far contracts valued at least 30 million US$ have been signed with the…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com) - Do not be under a delusion. Bulgaria is not such an important factor in the UN and NATO, despite our membership. Our country turned out to be in the right place at the right time as far as the international arms trade is concerned. And although Bulgaria has neither breached the UN Arms Trade Treaty, nor…

JERUSALEM, Israel (BulgarianMilitary.com) - In recent weeks, the topic of chemical attacks on Syrian rebels has been on the agenda again. Sources (unverified) claim that there are even real reports of a new chemical attack. It’s not the first time that all signs show that Syria has not complied with its obligation to destroy its chemical weapons…

MOSCOW, the Russian Federation, (BulgarianMilitary.com) – On 31 October, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported the visitation of the UN Assistant Secretary-General and Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations Carlos Loitey. He has arrived in Russia, upon an invitation of the Chief of General Staff and the First Deputy Defence Minister…