Iraq’s Coordination Framework is still putting forward Nouri al-Maliki as its candidate for prime minister, despite President Trump loudly and repeatedly demand he be withdrawn. The US is now reportedly setting a deadline of Friday, February 27, to end the candidacy...
The Israeli military has reported carrying out at least 8 strikes against eastern Lebanon today, centering on the area around Baalbek. Multiple buildings were hit in the area, according to reports, but casualties from the strikes, if any, have yet to be confirmed. The...
Though they didn’t provide exact numbers for how many are still at large, the Syrian Interior Ministry has confirmed that the al-Hawl camp that housed ISIS detainees in the Hasakeh Governorate did experience mass escapes in the weeks since the central government...
Fresh off of Israel threatening to attack civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, Israeli ground troops launched multiple cross-border raids into Lebanon, destroying what they claimed were Hezbollah outposts. Evidence that any of the targets, which were reportedly in the...
Israel has informed the Lebanese government that Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure will be “hit hard” if Hezbollah in any way takes part in the apparently upcoming US-Iran War. Lebanese officials have urged Hezbollah not to do so, since the war “does not concern us.”...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy to return to the position was meant to have been vetoed last month by President Trump, who denounced Maliki as “insane” and threatened to withhold all US support if he returned to office. There was talk of a...
The last Israeli invasion of Lebanon “ended” in November 2024 with a ceasefire, and since that ceasefire went into effect, Israel has launched over a thousand attacks on Lebanese territory. Those strikes are continuing to grow in intensity in recent months, and this...
Once and possibly future Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s candidacy is increasingly in doubt this weekend, with reports that President Trump’s demand he not be allowed to return to office increasing the possibility that the Coordination Framework bloc may...
A flurry of Israeli strikes on Friday and into Saturday, centered in the Bekaa Valley in the eastern Lebanon, have left at least 12 people dead and over 30 others wounded, including a large number of civilians. At least three children were reportedly among the...
This time last month, the Syrian military was sweeping through Kurdish territory in the country’s northeast Hasakeh Governorate, and having seized control of the al-Hawl prison camp, there were reports of thousands of ISIS-linked detainees being freed by the Islamist...
