Intense clashes were once again reported Saturday in northern Syria’s Aleppo Governorate, with Turkish-backed SNA militants attacking Kurdish SDF fighters in the area near the Tishreen Dam, which Turkey and the SNA has been unsuccessfully trying to capture for weeks...
Trump Floats Plan To ‘Clean Out’ Palestinians From Gaza, Raising Fears of Ethnic Cleansing
On Saturday, President Trump suggested the idea of "cleaning out" Palestinians from Gaza and sending them to Egypt and Jordan, raising fears that the US may support the ethnic cleansing of the territory. The president told reporters on Air Force One that moving...
Israeli Troops Kill Dozens and Wound Scores as Civilians Try to Return Home to Southern Lebanon
Sunday was meant to be the end of the 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Numerous displaced civilians from southern Lebanon appeared to believe this also meant an end to Israeli orders not to attempt to return home. Unfortunately, as Israel decided to stay,...
Zelensky Says US Military Aid To Ukraine Has Not Been Paused
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that US military aid to Ukraine had not been stopped, comments that came a day after a leaked memo revealed Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a 90-day pause on most foreign aid. "I am focused on military aid; it...
US Passed Secret Intelligence to Al-Qaeda-Linked Syrian Government
US intelligence officials met with officials of the new government in Syria and passed secret information. The Syrian government is now controlled by Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The Washington Post reports, “In the chaotic days...
Trump: Zelensky Passed on Deal, ‘Decided To Fight’
President Donald Trump put some blame on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for choosing to fight Russia rather than make a deal. In April of 2022, Zelensky had nearly completed negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin when members of NATO pushed Kiev to...
Israel Confirms Troops Not Leaving Lebanon By Monday Deadline
Surprising few people except perhaps Amos Hochstein, who guaranteed this wouldn’t happen, Israel confirmed Friday that they will, in fact, not be withdrawing from Lebanon by the deadline set out in the ceasefire, which was 60 days and arrives overnight Sunday into...
Shin Bet Says Israel’s ‘Multi-Front’ War Is Now Focused on the West Bank
The head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency said Thursday that Israel's "multi-front war" is now focused on the occupied West Bank amid a new Israeli siege on the northern Palestinian city of Jenin. "We are in a multi-front war, and now it is the turn of Samaria,"...
Israel Purchases More Iron Dome Interceptors With US Aid
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced last week that it had signed its first deal using an $8.7 billion military aid package it received from the US to purchase munitions for its Iron Dome missile defense system. The Defense Ministry said it signed a contract with...
Trump Says He Wants To Work With China and Russia on ‘Denuclearization’
On Thursday, President Trump delivered a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said he wanted to discuss the idea of "denuclearization" with Russia and China. The president claimed that during his last term in office, he discussed the...