Yesterday’s clash at the border between the Lebanese Army and the Syrian Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government’s forces seemingly ended with a ceasefire overnight. Eight Syrian soldiers were killed in the Monday fighting, along with five (some unconfirmed reports say...
Turkey and its auxiliaries continued its attacks on the territory of Syrian Kurds overnight, with a Turkish airstrike against a farm just south of Kobani leaving nine people in the Othman Abdo family dead. Most of the slain were reportedly children. Turkey and its...
Updated 3/17/2025 11:34 PM EDT The Lebanon-Syria border has been mostly quiet for the past month after a brief incursion by Syria’s government, the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in early February. Now there is renewed fighting in the exact same area after HTS...
Israel continued to carry out airstrikes against southern Lebanon throughout the weekend, despite Israel making much of the border dispute negotiations last week, which they claimed could lead to “normalization” between Israel and Lebanon. At least three civilians...
Updated 3/15/25 11:39 PM EDT US airstrikes are reportedly hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, with President Trump promising “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthi movement in northern Yemen unless they stop all attacks on international shipping....
In December, the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over Syria in an internationally-backed offensive. HTS was formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) before that. Today, their leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammad...
When Israel invaded Syria in December, it announced the intention to remain at Mount Hermon, along the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) region on the Syrian side of the border, through 2025. That appears to have been just the start, as Israel has taken more...
Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) declared their military operation against the Alawites over on Monday morning, but the execution of Alawite civilians has not halted. The number of civilians executed before Monday has also been rising further as more are counted. At...
Virtually from the moment the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire deal was signed in November, there have been reports that the US assured Israel they could both sign the ceasefire and be totally free to keep carrying out attacks on Hezbollah. Sources are now reporting that not...
Israel continues to carry out attacks against southern Lebanon, despite there being an active ceasefire in place since November 26. They included a drone strike against a vehicle in Nabatieh Governorate, in the area around Deir al-Zahrani, another just further north,...
