The Kurdish SDF has reported that one of their fighters was involved in an apparent massacre in the village of Kharous, near the important border city of Kobane. The incident gained major national attention after a video was released online of the killer bragging...
Iraq Opening New Prisons as US Plans to Send Thousands of ‘ISIS-linked’ Detainees There
Fighting between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian military just became Iraq’s problem in a big way, with the announcement that the US intends to send some 7,000 ISIS detainees that the Kurds had previously been holding to Iraq. With massive battles over the control of...
Israel Strikes Southern, Eastern Lebanon, at Least Two Killed, 19 Wounded
Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes against towns and villages across southern Lebanon today, as well as at least four strikes against border crossings between Syria and Lebanon in the area around Hermel. The IDF had placed evacuation notices on several areas...
Five Killed, Three Wounded in South Yemen Car Bombing
Giants Brigades commander Hamdi Shoukri survived an assassination attempt in the southern Yemeni city of Aden today, when a car bomb targeted his motorcade as he was traveling through the northern part of the city. Security forces in the area reported that five people...
Defense Ministry: 11 Syrian Soldiers Killed, 25 Wounded, in SDF Attacks in Syria’s Northeast
Fighting between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF continues despite repeated declarations of ceasefires, and today the defense ministry is claiming multiple SDF attacks have left at least 11 Syrian soldiers killed and 25 wounded. The incident, according to...
Thousands of ISIS Freed as Syrian Forces Seize Prison Camp
The Syrian military’s takeover of the al-Hawl prison camp, which housed tens of thousands of ISIS detainees and their families in eastern Hasakeh Governorate, seems to be going just as badly as many feared, with reports that the Islamist central government’s forces...
Scrapping Support for Syria’s Kurds, US Has Chance to Boost Turkey Ties
The US has effectively declared an end to their military support for the Syrian Kurdish SDF is causing no small amount of resentment in the Kurdish community, which after a long-term partnership feels that they are watching a “betrayal” in real time, as Syrian...
US Declares End to Military Support for Syrian Kurds
With the fighting continue to rage and north and northeast Syria between central government forces and the nation’s Kurdish minority, the US government appears to have decided that they are backing the former, and that US military support for the Syrian Kurds is over....
Saudis Keen To Oust UAE From Position of Regional Influence
The fighting in South Yemen in early January reflected a big rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While the two nations jointly invaded Yemen a decade and a half ago, they’ve both aligned with different factions, and those factions have been...
Full SDF Mobilization as Ceasefire Between Syria, Kurds in Tatters
The ceasefire between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian military seems to be completely in tatters Tuesday, as the SDF General Command called for a full mobilization of their forces amid ongoing attacks by the military on their territory in northeast Syria. Sunday’s...


