Following up on the deadly Israeli drone strikes against Kiswah, in the southern part of metro Damascus, Israel conducted an overnight raid of an old airbase there, with dozens of IDF troops arriving via helicopters and spending over two hours in the base. The troops...
Military tensions between Israel and Syria continue to grow precipitously, with a new flurry of Israeli drone strikes against the Kiswah, a suburb of the capital city of Damascus. The strikes killed at least eight Syrian soldiers and wounded others. The attack,...
US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continues to make headlines in Lebanon. Yesterday, it was for lambasting Lebanese journalists as “animalistic” at a press conference in Beirut, and today it was during his planned tour of southern Lebanon. Barrack helicoptered into...
US envoy Tom Barrack has had more than a few unusual exchanges in the course of his visits to Lebanon, but today seemed to spark a higher level of annoyance among the locals by lashing out at the press conference he was attending and berating the reporters as...
The ongoing security talks between Israel and Syria are taking yet another blow today with the news that Israeli ground troops invaded Syrian territory near the village of Beit Jinn, overlooking the Syria-Lebanon border. An estimated 60 IDF troops backed by military...
Last week, US officials requested that Israel stop attacking Lebanon, as is required under the November ceasefire. It appears they’re not doing that, but beyond previously being involved in a proposal to create a depopulated “Trump zone” in southern Lebanon, Israel is...
Last week it was reported that the US was asking Israel to stop attacking Lebanon, and that their plan for the region included creating a “Trump economic zone” in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, however, says he hasn’t...
Syria’s parliament is shaping up to be a lot less “unified” than initially advertised, with the ruling government announcing they’re going to postpone elections for the People’s Assembly in three governorates where groups likely to oppose the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
On Thursday, Israel launched a number of airstrikes against southern Lebanon. As they so often do, the IDF claimed they were attacking “Hezbollah infrastructure” in the attacks, a claim reported without scrutiny by Israeli media outlets. The reports suggest that the...
Though there have been reports of indirect talks for months now, Tuesday marked the first time it was publicly confirmed that Israel and Syria’s Islamist government held direct talks, with a US-brokered meeting held in Paris. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani...
