Over the weekend, Israeli ground troops reentered a number of villages in Syria’s Quneitra Governorate, setting up checkpoints and confronting local residents as they attempt to pass by. The new offensives began Friday evening, entering the villages of Ayn Baida and...
On the day that the Lebanese government is expected to release its plan to fully disarm Hezbollah, Israel carried out yet more attacks against southern Lebanon, targeting the Ali al-Taher and al-Dabsheh forests near Nabatieh al-Fawqa, sparking major fires which civil...
While the Trump Administration had been considering using its veto power to prevent the extension of the UN mandate for the UNIFIL peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, the Security Council ultimately voted once again to extend the mandate through 2026. At the same time,...
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...
