Violence against Syria’s Alawite minority continues apace this weekend, with multiple incidents in the central city of Homs leaving at least two civilians killed and two others wounded. The first incident took place Friday in the Zahra’a neighborhood, where an Alawite...
Israeli drones have carried out another drone attack on UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon this weekend, wounding one of the personnel when they dropped a grenade on their position near Kfar Kela. This was the second incident of Israel dropping a grenade on...
Israel attacks south Lebanon on an almost daily basis, but this morning the strike was one of the heaviest in weeks, targeting a heavy machinery store in the village of Msayleh. The strikes did enormous damage to infrastructure to be used in post-war reconstruction,...
The Syrian Defense Ministry is reporting that the ceasefire reached earlier this week with the Kurdish SDF isn’t going very well, with fighting around the Tishrin Dam erupted just hours after the ceasefire went into effect. A statement on Thursday claimed that the SDF...
Israel continued with their airstrikes against southern Lebanon early this week, killing at least four people over a 48 hour period. They claimed three of the people in question were Hezbollah members, though evidence to suggest this was scant. The strikes included a...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Tuesday that they had killed Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad in a strike last week. Ahmad was, according to the statement, a member of “Ansar al-Islam.” Few details were offered about the strike, which happened on Thursday,...
Syria’s Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and SDF leader Mazloum Abdi announced Tuesday that they have reached a “comprehensive ceasefire,” to go into effect immediately. This followed heavy fighting Monday in the eastern part of the Aleppo Governorate. The fighting...
Tensions between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF have continued to escalate, with heavy fighting reported in the Aleppo Governorate overnight. Both sides are blaming the other for the incident. The SDF maintains that the military was engaged in provocations...
An Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in the southern Lebanese town of Zibqin killed a married couple and wounding one other person. Israeli drones also attacked the area near Hermel in eastern Lebanon. The IDF claimed the slain husband was Hassan Atwi, a man who was...
The UNIFIL peacekeepers have issued a statement over the weekend after a Friday incident in the southern Lebanese border town of Maroun el-Ras in which an Israeli drone dropped grenades near their position in the area. The drone strikes started around 11:30 am,...
