The ceasefire “ending” the Israeli invasion of Lebanon went into effect in late November of 2024. Normally, that would usher in a period of reconstruction in the former war zone. That reconstruction has been challenged at every step, however, by Israeli attacks....
US Military Aircraft Nearly Collides With JetBlue Plane Near Venezuela
A US military aircraft nearly collided with a JetBlue plane near Venezuela after entering the passenger jet's flight path without its transponder on, according to air traffic control recordings. The JetBlue plane took off from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao,...
Report: US Forces Raided Ship Headed From China To Iran Last Month
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that US special operations forces raided a ship last month, several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, that had departed China and was bound for Iran. The report, which cited unnamed US officials, said that US special...
Syria Attack Highlights Deployment of US National Guard to Overseas Conflicts
An attack that targeted US troops in central Syria on Saturday has drawn attention to the presence of National Guard soldiers in the country and their use in combat zones in the Middle East and Africa. The attack, perpetrated by a member of the Syrian government's...
Netanyahu Uses Bondi Beach Massacre To Attack Australian Prime Minister’s Support for a Palestinian State
In the wake of the shooting that targeted Jews celebrating Hannukkah in Bondi Beach, Australia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his support of a Palestinian state. "On August 17, about four months ago,...
Hamas Confirms Commander Killed by Israeli Airstrike Targeting Car in Gaza City
Hamas confirmed on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike in Gaza a day earlier killed Raed Saad, one of its senior commanders, as Israel continues violating the ceasefire by launching attacks in the Strip. Saad was killed by a missile strike on a car in Gaza City, which...
Gunman Who Killed Three Americans in Syria Was Member of Syrian Government’s Security Forces
The gunman who killed two members of the Iowa National Guard and an American civilian interpreter in an attack in Palmyra, central Syria, on Saturday was a member of the Syrian government's security forces, according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. The Syrian...
Israel Kills Three, Including Municipal Council Member, in Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon
Israel continues to escalate their airstrikes against southern Lebanon, with growing talk of a new “large-scale” war against Lebanon potentially in the offing. Sunday, at least three more people were killed in Israeli strikes, and one wounded. The first incident was...
Two US Soldiers and One US Civilian Killed in Attack in Syria’s Palmyra
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...
Investigators Say Somali Clan Elder Killed by US Airstrike Was a Peace Delegate, Not a Militant
A committee in Somalia tasked with investigating the killing of a Somali clan elder who was hit by a US airstrike has found that he was a peaceful figure with no links to militant groups, rejecting claims from US Africa Command that he was an al-Shabaab weapons...


