Earlier this week, Israeli troops started their deepest invasion into Syrian territory yet, parachuting into the village of El Mal, in the northern part of the Daraa Governorate. El Mal is about 14 km from the occupied Golan Heights. Exactly what they were doing in El...
Israeli Drone Strikes Wound Two Civilians Collecting Scrap Metal in Southern Lebanon
Civilians in vehicles in southern Lebanon are everywhere and always at risk from Israeli drones, and there have been an increasing number of such drones flying overhead in a lot of southern villages. Wednesday, that led to multiple Israeli drone strikes against a car...
Israel Expands Zones Lebanese Civilians Are Barred From, Kills ‘Commander’ in Drone Strike
Israel’s decision to stay at five surveillance posts inside southern Lebanon after the February 18 deadline has caused considerable consternation among the Lebanese. Israel maintains the US green lit their stay, and now it appears that wasn’t the end of the...
Israel Attacks Military Sites in Northwestern Syria
Since the regime change in Syria in December, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against former military targets, in addition to an ongoing ground invasion in the south. Multiple Israeli airstrikes were reported today in the northwest, in the Latakia and...
US, Israel Reject French Proposal to End IDF Presence in Lebanon
Weeks after the February 18 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon has come and gone, IDF troops remain at the five hilltop surveillance posts they hastily constructed in southern Lebanon ahead of that deadline, and there are increasing signs that this is an...
US Reports Drone Strike in Syria’s Idlib Killed ‘Senior al-Qaeda Leader’
Last weekend, it was reported that the US attacked and killed Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a “senior leadership facilitator” for Hurras al-Din, in an attack in Syria’s Idlib Governorate. Around that time, it was also being reported another US drone strike had happened in...
IDF Instructed to Protect Syrian Druze in Signs of Deeper Israeli Intervention
The IDF has been instructed to prepare to defend the Druze minority in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, as Israel’s military invasion of southern Syria expands and the pretext of protecting the Druze minority in Syria becomes part of the narrative. Israel invaded...
Hysteria After IAEA Issues Quarterly Report on Iran’s Uranium Enrichment
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued its quarterly report on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, and like clockwork media outlets responded with hysterical speculation about Iranian nuclear weapons despite this report being not materially dissimilar...
Israeli DM: US Gave Israel Green Light to Stay in Lebanon ‘Indefinitely’
Israel’s decision to continue to occupy territory in southern Lebanon beyond the February 18 deadline came without a lot of official comment from the US. According to Israeli DM Israel Katz, however, the US gave them a “green light” to remain militarily in Lebanon...
Turkey Kills 12 in Strikes on Kurds in Northeast Syria
Turkey has carried out multiple airstrikes against the town of Ash Shaddadi in northeast Syria Wednesday. According to the Kurdish SDF, at least 16 airstrikes hit the town, targeting an SDF military post, vehicles and civilian homes. At least 12 people have reportedly...