The situation in southern Yemen seems to be coming to a head once again, with the Saudi-backed “National Resistance Forces” entering into direct conflict with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group that controls an ever-growing amount...
Israeli drone strikes against southern Lebanon have left at least three people dead over the weekend and three others wounded. The strikes targeted cars in the towns of Khiam and Jmaijmeh, in keeping with Israel’s regular targeting of still-functioning vehicles in...
As 2025 came to an end and 2026 began, Syria’s first full year under the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) rule is now in the books. Though the year saw Syria go from an international pariah to a welcomed member of the global community, internally, violence still...
As 2025 comes to an end, the Israel-Lebanon border is in much the same case as it was when it began. There is nominally a ceasefire, as their has been since November of 2024, but the Israeli military routinely ignores that ceasefire and carries out attacks on southern...
A weekend bombing of an Alawite mosque in the Syrian city of Homs sparked major protests by Alawites across Syria’s northwest, and led to a quick crackdown by the government, which has declared the protesters “Assad remnant forces.” Latakia, a major Alawite city, was...
An agreement was reached in March for the Kurdish SDF to integrate into the Syrian Army, and while we’ve seemed close to the deal actually going through multiple times throughout the year, persistent clashes and tensions have dogged this plan, and as the first full...
Israeli officials seemingly everywhere and always are talking about new wars against the various nations they’re already effectively at war with. In the case of Lebanon though, officials have been calling a new war inevitable, and the situation on the ground suggests...
Adding to the ever-growing number of incidents in which UNIFIL peacekeepers come under attack from Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, the group reported that on Friday they faced direct heavy gunfire in the village of Bastarra, leaving one peacekeeper wounded. The...
2025 has been the first full year in power for the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria, and the defining topics of the year have been the return of Syria to international diplomacy and bloody violence against religious minorities within the country. The first of the...
A Monday strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon destroyed a car and killed three people within. At the time, the IDF said they believed Hezbollah operatives were in the area, but they didn’t immediately claim that the actually hit Hezbollah. That’s changed, and...
