Since invading Lebanon in early March, Israeli officials have tried to frame the war as primarily targeting Lebanon’s Shi’ite population. From early on, the war was about destroying Shi’ite villages, displacing Shi’ite locals, and at times threatening to annihilate...
It has been reported that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun received assurances from the United States that Israel does not intend to carry out any new strikes beyond the yellow line assuming Hezbollah doesn’t attack. The report was followed with suggestions that...
A high-profile speech by Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem this evening produced few surprises, as he reiterated backing for the terms of this summer’s US-Iran deal, support for UN Resolution 1701, but rejection of this summer’s tripartite deals between the US, Israel and...
Israeli military vehicles entered the village of Saida al-Golan, in Quneitra Governorate today, searching homes in the area and capturing one civilian before withdrawing from the village toward the farmland further to the west. A large number of IDF vehicles were also...
As is true most days, multiple areas of southern Lebanon have reported being under sustained heavy artillery fire from Israeli forces. Multiple towns and villages seem to be primary targets, including in the Tyre and Nabatieh Districts. This is a problem in any...
Influential Druze leader and longtime Lebanese political figure Walid Jumblatt may be retired, officially, but that didn’t stop him from opining of the ongoing Israeli invasion and occupation of his country, and it quickly because an issue for the US State Department....
Despite myriad rounds of US-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon yielding effectively no pledges for Israel to stop attacking or ever withdraw from occupied southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials, incredibly, are continuing to try to frame the active invasion...
Israeli troops continued to operate across southwest Syria over the weekend, with multiple incursions reported against the Quneitra Governorate seemingly focused primarily on excavation and carving out the “Sufa 53 Line” that the IDF is imposing on the ground in the...
The weekend saw heavy Israeli artillery shelling and drone overflights across Lebanon, with growing concerns that the ongoing war, already seeing a scaling up of daily strikes, is about to see another substantial Israel escalation. Shelling was reported in Tyre...
Israeli ground troops have been raiding the Yarmouk River Basin in the western part of Syria’s Daraa Governorate in growing numbers and more frequently in recent days. The restrictions placed on locals have been onerous enough to attract some international attention....
