Israel is once again carrying out airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon today, with strikes killing at least two people and wounding one other, and the IDF offering the usual pretext that the targets were all Hezbollah infrastructure of one form or another....
On Tuesday, the Syrian government announced a four-day ceasefire with the Kurdish SDF, which came with what appeared to amount to an ultimatum to agree to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) terms for integrating with the central government. The fighting never really...
The Kurdish SDF has reported that one of their fighters was involved in an apparent massacre in the village of Kharous, near the important border city of Kobane. The incident gained major national attention after a video was released online of the killer bragging...
Fighting between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian military just became Iraq’s problem in a big way, with the announcement that the US intends to send some 7,000 ISIS detainees that the Kurds had previously been holding to Iraq. With massive battles over the control of...
Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes against towns and villages across southern Lebanon today, as well as at least four strikes against border crossings between Syria and Lebanon in the area around Hermel. The IDF had placed evacuation notices on several areas...
Giants Brigades commander Hamdi Shoukri survived an assassination attempt in the southern Yemeni city of Aden today, when a car bomb targeted his motorcade as he was traveling through the northern part of the city. Security forces in the area reported that five people...
Fighting between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF continues despite repeated declarations of ceasefires, and today the defense ministry is claiming multiple SDF attacks have left at least 11 Syrian soldiers killed and 25 wounded. The incident, according to...
The Syrian military’s takeover of the al-Hawl prison camp, which housed tens of thousands of ISIS detainees and their families in eastern Hasakeh Governorate, seems to be going just as badly as many feared, with reports that the Islamist central government’s forces...
The US has effectively declared an end to their military support for the Syrian Kurdish SDF is causing no small amount of resentment in the Kurdish community, which after a long-term partnership feels that they are watching a “betrayal” in real time, as Syrian...
With the fighting continue to rage and north and northeast Syria between central government forces and the nation’s Kurdish minority, the US government appears to have decided that they are backing the former, and that US military support for the Syrian Kurds is over....
