The UNIFIL reported that on Tuesday morning, near the Lebanese village of Marwahin, Israeli drones approached their peacekeepers and dropped stun grenades within 20 meters of them. The IDF confirmed the incident. The incident has been described by UN officials as “one...
Amnesty International has released a new report related to the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate, confirming that the government and their allies summarily executed dozens of Druze civilians in the course of the crackdown. The report cited verified videos and...
The more information we get about the “Trump economic zone” proposal in southern Lebanon, the worse it seems for the people who live there. The latest reports reveal the plan to totally depopulate the south of the country, to place the whole area under US military...
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...
