Tuesday’s fighting in the Aleppo Governorate has escalated into a bigger clash between Syrian security forces and the Kurdish SDF, with the battle spreading to the governorate capital of Aleppo, and the military announcing a “limited military operation” against the...
The high-profile Paris talks between Syrian and Israeli officials on Tuesday marked the resumption of direct negotiations under US mediation, and reportedly are going much better than anticipated, with substantial deals already in hand and reports that they will...
Fighting erupted between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian Army today in the Aleppo Governorate, with the battle centering around a checkpoint in the town of Deir Hafer. At least seven people were killed in the course of the fighting, six of them civilians. A number of...
Israel continued with their airstrikes against southern Lebanon again today, hitting the area around the city of the Sidon overnight but then also went after a house in the town of Khirbet Selm early Tuesday. A three-storey building in Sidon was reportedly leveled,...
On Monday, Israel issued evacuation orders for four villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, saying they were to be targeted to hit Hezbollah and Hamas infrastructure in the area. Those villages included Kfar Hatta, Ain al-Tineh, al-Manara and Annan. The first two...
The direct talks between Syria and Israel began last year in April, and aimed to resolve long-standing disagreements as well as active Israeli military aggression against Syrian territory. The talks have hit multiple stumbling blocks, but on Tuesday they will give...
The situation in southern Yemen seems to be coming to a head once again, with the Saudi-backed “National Resistance Forces” entering into direct conflict with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), a separatist group that controls an ever-growing amount...
Israeli drone strikes against southern Lebanon have left at least three people dead over the weekend and three others wounded. The strikes targeted cars in the towns of Khiam and Jmaijmeh, in keeping with Israel’s regular targeting of still-functioning vehicles in...
As 2025 came to an end and 2026 began, Syria’s first full year under the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) rule is now in the books. Though the year saw Syria go from an international pariah to a welcomed member of the global community, internally, violence still...
As 2025 comes to an end, the Israel-Lebanon border is in much the same case as it was when it began. There is nominally a ceasefire, as their has been since November of 2024, but the Israeli military routinely ignores that ceasefire and carries out attacks on southern...
