Israeli drones carried multiple strikes around the coastal city of Tyre over the weekend, killing at least three people, one of whom the IDF later claimed was a high-ranking Hezbollah commander involved in rehabilitating the organization. The first strike targeted a...
With US envoy Tom Barrack in attendance in Paris, Syrian and Israeli government ministers met in what is being called “de-escalation” talks aimed to reduce the growing tensions amid the ongoing Israeli invasion of southwestern Syria and the sectarian violence in the...
Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continued throughout the week to make increasingly conflicting demands and pledges to Lebanon. On Wednesday, he brought back the demand for disarmament of Hezbollah, now insisting that not only does this have to happen within 90 days,...
Continuing to flout November’s ceasefire with Lebanon, Israeli ground troops invaded southern Lebanon once again at dawn on Wednesday, with around 20 troops marching into the area around al-Abbasiya. The troops searched multiple abandoned homes in the area. Israel did...
US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continued on his rather confusing visit to Lebanon, making it even more difficult to pin down exactly what the US position on the country is at any given time with a combination of threats and reassurances. Barrack met with...
Continuing the increasingly confusing situation centering on the US demands for Lebanon to fully disarm Hezbollah by November, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack was in Lebanon again to meet with officials, and to dismiss the guarantees Lebanese officials were...
Sunday saw relative calm return to the Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria, after a solid week of fighting among the Druze and Bedouins left in excess of 1,100 documented deaths so far and a final toll that is likely to be even higher. A majority of the slain were...
Israel continued carrying out drone strikes in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing two people in different strikes and claiming that both were “key Hezbollah commanders” from the area, despite a paucity of evidence to that effect. The first strike was against...
Fighting between the Druze and Bedouins in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate continues to rage, despite the second ceasefire of the week being declared on Wednesday. The toll in the fighting and killing since Sunday is now up to at least 638, according to the Syrian...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated long-standing demands that the entire south of Syria south of Damascus remain absolutely demilitarized, and vowed that Israel will continue to carry out attacks on Syria to enforce that as one of his “red...
