Israel has continued carrying out drone strikes across southern Lebanon, with strikes Wednesday evening killing one person in a car in Hadatha and wounding two others after striking a motorcycle in Zibqin. Thursday morning saw the strikes continue, with another attack...
Syria’s Foreign Minister was in Ankara today meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, and Fidan took the opportunity, as Turkish officials so often do, to rail about the Kurds threatening regional stability. This time, the warnings were directed at the...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri met with visiting Iranian National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani today, and it was something of an awkward exchange, leading to Aoun warning Larijani that no group within Lebanon is allowed to bear arms...
Talks were held Tuesday in Amman, Jordan related to the ongoing situation in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate. No Druze were permitted to attend to the talks, which were between the Jordanian FM, the Syrian FM, and US envoy Tom Barrack. The sides discussed the tentative...
The number of people killed in the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate is still yet from being fully documented, as tensions continue to flare and the whole governorate is effectively on lockdown from the government. Talks aimed at addressing concerns about that...
At least six weapons experts from the Lebanese Army were killed, and an unspecified number of others were wounded Saturday on the outskirts of the town of Zebqine, when the weapons cache they were in the process of inspecting and dismantling exploded. It was one of...
Over the weekend, the Kurdish SDF held a unity conference in Paris meant to discuss, among other things, how integration with the Islamist Syrian government will actually work. The unity conference was condemned by the government, which refused to take part, claiming...
After weeks of US demands and conflicting narratives about what is actually being proposed, the Lebanese cabinet has accepted the US proposal to fully disarm Hezbollah by year’s end. Hezbollah ministers as well as other Shi’ites walked out of the cabinet vote. The US...
Last updated 8/7/25 2:25 PM EST Israel’s heavy airstrikes Wednesday night continued into Thursday, with at least two people confirmed killed in the attacks and multiple others wounded. The casualty figures in some of the latest strikes have yet to be confirmed....
Late in the evening and into the night on Wednesday, Israel carried out a large number of airstrikes against southern Lebanon, targeting Touline, Deir Siriane, Zoutar and al-Qantarah. At least one fatality has been confirmed so far, and three people wounded. The toll...
