Since the December regime change in Syria, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government has repeatedly talked up improving the nation’s relationship with Israel. That talking point hasn’t gone away, even if it seemed less probable with Israel actively invading...
Cursory reports in the press are suggesting that Lebanon might be on the verge of joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel. The Lebanese government isn’t explicitly denying it, but there seem to be some huge obstacles in the way. The first...
Israel is once again escalating its airstrikes against southern Lebanon this weekend, with a flurry of strikes killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others. As usual, Israeli officials are presenting one of the slain as a “Hezbollah commander.” The...
Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon continued on Thursday, with two people reported killed in separate strikes. The IDF quickly issued a statement claiming both were Hezbollah operatives, with one promoted all the way to “elite” Radwan commander. The first...
On Sunday, a massive suicide bomb attack tore through the important Greek Orthodox church Mar Elias in Damascus, killing 27 and wounding dozens more. The huge attack just added to the spate of sectarian violence across Syria, which undercuts the Islamist Hayat Tahrir...
An Israeli drone strike targeted a car near Kfar Dajal in the Nabatieh District of southern Lebanon today, killing the three people within, who were all members of the same family, according to local media reports. Details are still emerging on the attack, but the...
Israeli troops continue to carry out cross-border raids into southwest Syrian villages, particularly in the Quneitra Governorate, as their invasion and occupation of that frontier near Golan continues. Two ground raids were reported against two Quneitra villages on...
The US has ordered all non-essential personal and families to leave Lebanon, with the State Department saying the decision was based on the increasingly uncertain stability in the region. The concern with Lebanon is the risk of it getting dragged into the ongoing...
Updated 6/23/25 12:13 EDT An enormous number of Christians were killed today in the Douila area of the Syrian capital city of Damascus when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb during a Sunday mass at the Mar Elias church. State media initial reported 9 killed and dozens...
Though the ongoing new Israeli war in Iran has been making a lot of the headlines, Israel’s ongoing war during a ceasefire in Lebanon shows no signs of slowing down, with multiple attacks reported against the southern Lebanese coast throughout the weekend. On Friday,...
