Fighting between the Druze population in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate and local Bedouin tribes continues to escalate after breaking out Sunday in the Suwayda neighborhood of Maqus. The most recent figures suggest at least 89 people have been killed in the fighting as...
Adding to the seemingly endless array of different ethnic, sectarian and other general clashes in Syria, fighting erupted in the southern city of Suwayda today, leaving at least 21 people dead, including a child, and over 40 others wounded, as many as 50 by some...
In comments in an interview with The National, US Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack warned that Lebanon faces an “existential” crisis if they don’t give in to US demands to fully disarm Hezbollah and all other armed factions by November. “You...
Overnight, Israel continued its attacks on southern Lebanon, hitting and killing a person on a motorcycle in the village of Mansouri, near the coastal city of Tyre. Two other people were reported wounded in the strike. Details are still scant on the Mansouri strike,...
Back in March, the Kurdish SDF agreed on integration into the Syrian Army. The deal was mostly “in principle” with the details to be worked out in later talks. The process seems to have slowed on a number of different points, and the US isn’t happy. The SDF retains...
Israel has been aggressively ignoring the ongoing ceasefire with Lebanon since it was just put in place in November, mostly with occupation of hilltop sites inside Lebanon and near daily airstrikes against Lebanese towns and villages. Overnight, they ignored it even...
Israel continued its attacks on Lebanon today, in violation of the ceasefire that has been in place since November. Today they attacked in Lebanon’s far north, hitting the city of Tripoli in a strike that killed at least three and wounded 13 others. Like so many other...
Israel carried out multiple drone strikes against southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday and into Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounded 10 others, including a child who was seriously wounded. The fatal strikes were reported in Deir Kifa and Beit Lif. The...
US envoy Tom Barrack declared himself “unbelievably satisfied” with Lebanon’s reply to his recent demand to fully disarm every single faction within the country. Since Hezbollah already made clear that was going to be a no, Barrack’s delight was somewhat surprising,...
Israel continues to systematically violate the ceasefire with Lebanon this weekend, according to Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri. The strikes were reported across southern Lebanon, killing at least one and wounding six others. The deadly attack was a drone strike...
