On Thursday evening, Israel issued an evacuation order for the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut, and after causing a panicked evacuation, it carried out airstrikes hitting eight buildings. At the time, we had reports of Lebanese soldiers being deployed to inspect the...
An early morning incident Friday in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip saw four Israeli soldiers killed and five wounded, one seriously so, when they entered a reportedly booby-trapped building which collapsed down around them. The building reportedly...
Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut is in shock tonight when massive explosions tore through the civilian neighborhood of Dahieh, in the city’s south, as the result of a major Israeli attack. This is the first attack on Beirut in over a month. Israel issued an evacuation...
Israel continues its strikes on southern Lebanon Thursday, hitting multiple targets and causing damage, though at present only one injury was reported. The bigger news is that Israel’s Northern Command chief Gen. Ori Gordin is threatening a new offensive. The threat...
Israeli operations against neighboring Lebanon have mostly centered on drone strikes against any vehicles still operational in the towns and villages of the south, but on Wednesday the incident was maritime in nature, with four Israeli gunboats crossing the buoy line...
Updated 6/4/2025 2:00 PM Eastern For the first time since the regime change in Syria in December and the subsequent Israeli invasion of the southwest frontier of the country, Israel reported rocket attacks against their territory, in the occupied Golan Heights, coming...
In December after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power in Syria, the Biden Administration lifted the $10 million bounty on the head of Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. Sharaa has gone on quite an effort to...
The position of the United States on the Islamist Syrian government has been complex since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power in December. The HTS, after all, was effectively al-Qaeda’s Syria branch up until it distanced itself from the parent group, with...
At least three members of the Kurdish Asayish security forces were killed today in northeastern Syria, according to the group. They said they were targeted by an ISIS cell during a patrol on the road between Raqqa and Hasakeh. The patrol was targeted with a landmine,...
Israel continued to carry out shelling and drone strikes against southern Lebanon killing at least two people and wounding another according to various reports. As usual, the IDF claimed everyone killed was a top Hezbollah figure. The Saturday strike targeted a car in...
