Starting on Thursday, the Syrian Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) brutal anti-Alawite crackdown raged throughout the weekend, with in excess to 1,300 people killed, more than 1,000 of them civilians by some accountings. The HTS government has declared the operations over....
After a weekend of fighting between the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government and Alawite militias in northwestern Syria, and the subsequent massacres of Alawite civilians that left well over 1,000 people dead, Israel is expressing newfound outrage against...
There were hopes in Lebanon that the restoration of calm after the ouster of President Bashar Assad in Syria would mean that the large numbers of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon would return home. Some of that started to happen, but now a new influx of new refugees...
In the largest series of attacks against Lebanon since the November ceasefire, Israel has carried out dozens of airstrikes against areas around the border in southern Lebanon. Nearly 30 airstrikes have been confirmed. Casualty figures are still not confirmed, but one...
Last updated Sunday 3/9/25 7:43 PM EDT The situation in northwestern Syria continues to spiral out of control this weekend, as the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has been surging forces into the Alawite homelands in the Latakia and Tartus Governorates, clashing...
Thursday’s reports of fighting between the Syrian government and Alawite militias in Latakia Governorate have exploded into what some are calling an outright insurgency, with hundreds of people killed and reports of the ruling Islamists of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham...
Heavy fighting erupted along the northern Syrian coast today, with at least 16 troops loyal to the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government reported killed in clashes around the Alawite heartland of Jableh. Details are still emerging, but the Syrian Defense...
Earlier this week, Israeli troops started their deepest invasion into Syrian territory yet, parachuting into the village of El Mal, in the northern part of the Daraa Governorate. El Mal is about 14 km from the occupied Golan Heights. Exactly what they were doing in El...
Civilians in vehicles in southern Lebanon are everywhere and always at risk from Israeli drones, and there have been an increasing number of such drones flying overhead in a lot of southern villages. Wednesday, that led to multiple Israeli drone strikes against a car...
Israel’s decision to stay at five surveillance posts inside southern Lebanon after the February 18 deadline has caused considerable consternation among the Lebanese. Israel maintains the US green lit their stay, and now it appears that wasn’t the end of the...
