On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about Israel's need to achieve "victory" against Iran and its allies in the region. "I unequivocally declare to Hezbollah and to Iran: In order to prevent you...
Israeli Attack on School-Turned-Shelter in Southern Gaza Kills 20
On Sunday night, an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza killed at least 20 Palestinians, including children, as the daily US-backed slaughter continues. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, the strike hit a UN-run school...
Israel Launches Dozens More Airstrikes in Syria, HTS Says It Doesn’t Want Conflict
Israel launched dozens of airstrikes in Syria overnight Saturday into Sunday despite the new de facto leader of the country, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, saying his group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was not interested in a conflict with Israel. According to Al Jazeera,...
Israel To Expand Settlements in Occupied Golan Heights
On Sunday, the Israeli government approved a plan to surge the settler population of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which comes after Israeli troops captured more land inside Syria following the downfall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The plan will...
Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact With al-Qaeda-Linked HTS
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that the US has been in direct contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a US-designated terror organization that grew out of al-Qaeda in Syria and recently led the offensive that overthrew former Syrian President Bashar...
US Assures Syrian Kurdish SDF After Turkish FM Says Goal Is to Wipe Them Out
It has been a wild 72 hours for the Kurdish-dominated SDF forces in Syria’s northeast. After substantial fighting over the city of Manbij and a 4-day truce conditioned entirely on the SDF removing themselves and their families from the area, the relative stability in...
Despite Talk of a ‘Nuclear Leap,’ Little About Iran’s Enrichment Program Has Changed
This week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offered it’s latest secret assessment to member states about the status of Iran’s civilian nuclear program, including its enrichment of uranium. As usual, aspects of this assessment were quickly leaked, and...
Trump Transition Team Considering Strikes on Iran
Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are being seriously considered within the Donald Trump transition team, according to the Wall Street Journal. While there is no proof Tehran is trying to make a nuclear weapon, Washington and Tel Aviv are threatening to attack...
NATO Chief Calls for Cold War-Level Military Spending
On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called for the alliance to significantly increase military spending up to Cold War levels and adopt a "wartime mindset." "It is true that we spend more on defense now than we did a decade ago.But we are still spending far...
Report: Israel Sees Opportunity To Bomb Iran After Downfall of Assad
The Israeli military believes there is now an opportunity to bomb Iran due to the weakening of its allies in the region following the ousting of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Israeli military officials said in the...