The US-mediated effort to get a deal between Israel and Syria still seems to be a work in progress, and the IDF is back deploying forces into Syria’s southwestern Quneitra Governorate, and attacking farmland around the area. Ground troops entered Quneitra and went to...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has released a statement confirming that the government is preparing to file a lawsuit as well as diplomatic action against Israel over a weekend incident in which Israel dropped “toxic” chemicals on Lebanese border territory. Israel...
Fresh off a Sunday where UNIFIL peacekeepers’ operations were disrupted by Israel dropping unknown chemicals in their vicinity and warning them to “take cover,” the peacekeepers were back on patrol in the area of Kfar Kela, along the Lebanon-Israel border. Israel...
Adding to Israel’s ongoing hostility to the UN peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon, the UNIFIL reported Sunday’s operations near the Blue Line were disrupted when the IDF began dropping an unidentified chemical on the area near the peacekeepers. The UNIFIL said...
Israel continues to flout the Lebanon ceasefire, launching multiple strikes against southern Lebanon on Monday and issuing an evacuation order forcing civilians out of Ain Qana and Kfar Tibnit before a salvo of strikes against those towns. Strikes were also reported...
An Israeli drone strike Sunday has killed one person and wounded three others in southern Lebanon. The strike targeted a vehicle in the Nabatieh District, in the town of Ebba. There are no details about who was killed in the strike. As usual, the IDF issued a...
The Kurdish majority city of Kobane remains under the control of the SDF, and despite yet another deal between Kurdish officials and the Syrian government which was meant to resolve the conflict, the city remains under siege. As the siege of the city approaches two...
One of the early consequences of the Saudi invasion of Yemen was that the local affiliate, called al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seized substantial territory in the south. AQAP is no longer seen as nearly so high profile, carrying out occasional attacks on...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has very publicly rejected President Trump’s demand he be prevented from returning to power, declaring it “blatant American interference in Iraq’s internal affairs,” and a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Iraq held its most...
If you put aside the continued fighting in several parts of northern and eastern Syria, and the mounting humanitarian crisis among civilians displaced by the fighting, the ceasefire between the Syrian government and the Kurdish SDF is holding. The tribal-backed...
