With heavy fighting raging between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF in the country’s northeast, President Ahmed Sharaa sought to make a concession to the nation’s ethnic Kurdish minority with a new decree enshrining a modicum of rights to them. The decree...
It’s hardly the first ceasefire between the two sides declared over the last week, but Sunday, the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian government announced another ceasefire, one that President Ahmed al-Sharaa says includes a full integration for the Kurds and much of their...
Israel is once again escalating their airstrikes against Lebanon, with substantial targeting in the eastern Bekaa Valley and continued drone strikes reported against the south. The main target today appears to be Sohmor and the adjacent town of Machgharah. An...
Fighting continues in Syria’s Aleppo Governorate east of the city of Aleppo but west of the Euphrates River, as the Syrian military tries to seize the area from the Kurdish SDF forces that have had control over it largely throughout the past decade. The Syrian Army...
As Israel continues to pound southern Lebanon, parliament speaker Nabih Berri issued a statement critical of the panel meant to oversee the existing ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, saying they’re failing to do their job. The body was mandated, Berri notes, to...
After a week of heavily fighting between the Syrian military and Kurdish SDF in Deir Hafer and the city of Aleppo, a US-brokered ceasefire was reached. Two days later, fighting has erupted yet again, once again in Deir Hafer and areas east of there. The Syrian...
Just two weeks after Israeli troops fired on an injured a UNIFIL peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, yet another incident is being reported, with an Israeli tank firing multiple shells at a group of UNIFIL peacekeepers from Spain in the area around Khiam. Three shots...
While the Saudis and their allies in the self-proclaimed Yemeni “government” are treating the disputed dissolution of the separatist STC as a fait accompli, the reality of the situation continues to elude their diktats, and STC officials are rejecting calls for their...
After days of fighting and the sealing off of the Kurdish neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the last of the SDF has reportedly withdrawn from the city as part of a deal with central government forces, though the SDF maintains it is only a “partial...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that they have carried out “large-scale” airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, saying the hit multiple sites belonging to the terror group as part of their commitment to “pursuing terrorists” and in retaliation for the mid-December...
