The town of Beit Jinn in the eastern part of Syria’s Rif Damashq Governorate is reeling today after an Israeli raid turned into a major attack, involving ground troops and airstrikes against the small town, leaving at least 15 dead, including women and children. It is...
After threatening a new war with Lebanon only yesterday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is at it again, rejecting the very idea of peace with neighboring Syria, even though there have been peace talks between the two nations since at least April. Katz continues...
Israel continued with its attacks on southern Lebanon on Thursday. A year on from the ceasefire with Lebanon, the strikes show no signs of abating, and indeed come with persistent threats of further escalation by the Israeli military. A series of strikes were reported...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who has long resisted anything resembling a settlement in the ongoing conflict with Lebanon (nominally in a state of ceasefire), has threatened to launch a new war against the country if Lebanon hasn’t fully disarmed Hezbollah by...
Violence against Alawites was enormous in March, when government-backed forces and some security forces carried out a massacre in the Tartus and Latakia Governorates, killing in excess of 1,300 Alawites, mostly civilians. The violence has lingered since then, but...
A week and a half ago, the UN Human Rights Office issued a statement reporting that Israel had killed 114 civilians since the beginning of the ceasefire in Lebanon. Today, they updated that number to 127 confirmed civilians, entirely on the basis of a single attack....
A Bedouin couple was killed Saturday in their home in the town of Zaidal, on the outskirts of Homs, Syria. The two were members of the Bani Khaled tribe, and state media reported that “sectarian slogans” were found at the scene. The tribe responded by attacking the...
At least five people were killed today and 28 were wounded in an Israeli attack on an apartment block in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut, the first attack on Beirut in months. This attack comes just a day after Lebanese Independence Day and ahead of a planned...
Fear about the deteriorating situation on the Israel-Lebanon border is mounting, and the US policy has been to pressure Lebanon to enter into direct talks with Israel, something Lebanon has repeatedly offered to do. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam reiterated Lebanon’s...
Following a particularly deadly Tuesday in which Israel killed at least 14 people, including 13 inside a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, the attacks continued. On Wednesday, multiple additional strikes were reported. The IDF issued evacuation orders for...
