Gaza's Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 201 over the previous 24-hour period as relentless strikes continued. Israeli strikes on Thursday included a drone attack right outside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia,...
Just over a week after taking Aleppo, the Syrian Islamist fighters led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have seized another major city. This time, they have taken Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city, which had not fallen during the protracted Syrian Civil War. Senior...
The US had proposed the idea of withdrawing its troops from eastern Syria and possibly lifting sanctions in exchange for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cutting ties with Iran and Hezbollah, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The report said...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday claimed the Lebanon ceasefire was "holding" despite repeated Israeli attacks on south Lebanon. At a press conference in Brussels, Blinken was asked if Israel had violated the ceasefire by bombing southern Lebanon but...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday rejected a request from President Biden to include additional spending for the proxy war in Ukraine as part of a continuing resolution Congress is expected to pass before the end of the year. The White House's Office of...
On Wednesday, Israeli strikes again targeted tents in the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, which has been declared a so-called "safe zone" by the Israeli military but has come under repeated attacks. The attack killed at least 20 Palestinians, with children among the...
Tuesday, the Kurdish SDF launched an offensive against a number of villages in eastern Syria. The US backed the offensive with military action, and al-Mayadeen even suggests that the offensive itself came at the behest of the US military. Today we’re getting some more...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Ukraine needs to send younger people to fight Russian forces as the US is pressuring Ukraine to start conscripting teenagers for combat. Ukraine's current minimum conscription age is 25, and the US wants it lowered...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expressing "openness" to the idea of expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Ben Gvir and other ministers are openly in...
On Tuesday, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia accused Ukraine of supporting militants in Syria fighting under the command of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda offshoot that led the takeover of Aleppo. The accusation came a few days after the Kyiv...
