Though it has reportedly been extended until the end of the week, the failure to make the ceasefire between Turkish-backed forces and the US-backed Kurdish SDF permanent is expected to lead to more fighting. It is starting to look like the fight for northern Syria...
Update from 12/17/24: Though the four-day ceasefire expired, the US State Department is now reporting it has been extended until the end of the week. With the four-day ceasefire in the Syrian city of Manbij coming to a close, US mediators’ efforts to convince Turkey...
While the sudden regime change in Syria affected numerous regional powers, few face as much disruption as Russia. During the Assad era, Russia maintained very important Mediterranean bases in Syria, including Tartus, Russia’s only Mediterranean naval base. With Assad...
It has been a wild 72 hours for the Kurdish-dominated SDF forces in Syria’s northeast. After substantial fighting over the city of Manbij and a 4-day truce conditioned entirely on the SDF removing themselves and their families from the area, the relative stability in...
This week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offered it’s latest secret assessment to member states about the status of Iran’s civilian nuclear program, including its enrichment of uranium. As usual, aspects of this assessment were quickly leaked, and...
The southern Lebanese town of Khiam has increasingly become a centerpiece for the struggles with the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. Just hours after Israeli troops withdrew from Khiam as part of the ceasefire, an Israeli drone has attacked the town square, killing at least...
Israeli ceasefire violations against southern Lebanon continued Wednesday, with airstrikes reported against the towns of Ainata, Bint Jbeil and Beit Lif. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that at least five people were killed in the strikes and others wounded....
In the two weeks since the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire went into effect, Israel has launched an ever growing number of attacks against southern Lebanon. These attacks have killed dozens of people, mostly civilians. Until today, these violations have been almost...
Several nations have been loudly cheering the weekend regime change in Syria (some are even taking credit for it). But despite the Islamist faction they were backing ending up taking Damascus, neither the US, Turkey, nor Israel are actually stopping attacks on Syrian...
We’re more than a week into the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. Israel has continued carrying out airstrikes against Lebanon despite the ceasefire, and the number and intensity of the strikes appear to be escalating this weekend. At least three civilians were killed today...
