Update: more details on the attack and the perpetrator here An apparently insider attack in the ancient Syrian city of Palmya has left a number of US casualties, after an apparent ISIS infiltrator to the local security forces attacked a joint US-Syrian patrol that was...
In comments directed to the Israeli government by way of i24NEWS, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack urged Israel to take advantage of the current opportunity and make a deal with the Syrian government. Barrack said that Syria understands that their future depends on...
In mid-November, it was being reported that Israel-Syria talks were slowing to an impasse over Israel's insistence that it wouldn’t withdraw its troops from the demilitarized zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights. Israel invaded the demilitarized zone in...
In yet another incident of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon finding themselves a target of the Israeli military, the UNIFIL reported yesterday that an Israeli Merkava tank fired on a UNIFIL patrol near the border village of Sarda. The patrol reported a burst of machine gun...
Three Syrian civilians were reported wounded on Tuesday when Israeli troops opened fire on them from the newly established IDF checkpoint near Khan Arnabeh, in the northern part of the Quneitra Governorate. The checkpoint is set up outside the town, along the road to...
Amid growing concerns about the state of the ceasefire, Israel is continuing to not only attack Lebanon, but to escalate, with strikes on Tuesday hitting multiple towns in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region of southern Lebanon. As usual, Hezbollah was the pretext. Strikes...
In comments on Israel’s Channel 12, the Maj. Gen. Diodato Abagnara, commander of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said that the group has seen “no evidence” that Hezbollah is in any way rebuilding its capacity south of the Litani River. That statement is...
While there are continued signs that Israel is escalating toward a new war against Lebanon, there are growing calls to avoid such a conflict and engage in direct talks. This is not just from Lebanon, which has supported diplomacy for months, but also from the United...
Yesterday, the US hosted a ceasefire monitoring committee meeting in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqoura. It was seen as historic because both Lebanese and Israeli officials attended, the first direct talks between the two nations in over 40 years. Hopes...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed conditional willingness to consider a deal with Syria, but today the IDF is back to carrying out offensive operations into the country’s west and southwest. As usual, the military was active on the ground in Quneitra...
