Last week’s rocket fire toward Israel continues to be used as an excuse for escalating Israeli drone strikes against southern Lebanon. Those rockets didn’t hit anything or do any damage to anyone, but the Israeli drones are killing several people, with four more slain...
The 2024 Israel War in Lebanon never really completely ended, the invasion was somewhat stopped by a ceasefire, though near daily Israeli attacks continued throughout that ceasefire. With strikes escalating Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is warning that a...
Updated 3/17/2025 11:34 PM EDT The Lebanon-Syria border has been mostly quiet for the past month after a brief incursion by Syria’s government, the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in early February. Now there is renewed fighting in the exact same area after HTS...
In the largest series of attacks against Lebanon since the November ceasefire, Israel has carried out dozens of airstrikes against areas around the border in southern Lebanon. Nearly 30 airstrikes have been confirmed. Casualty figures are still not confirmed, but one...
Civilians in vehicles in southern Lebanon are everywhere and always at risk from Israeli drones, and there have been an increasing number of such drones flying overhead in a lot of southern villages. Wednesday, that led to multiple Israeli drone strikes against a car...
Israel continues to escalate the strikes across Lebanon since they withdrew from the populated parts of southern Lebanon last week. The focus is increasingly on the east, along the border between Lebanon and Syria. Tuesday evening, an Israeli drone strike against the...
The Trump Administration’s attempt to dictate terms on the new Lebanese government’s cabinet appears to have failed spectacularly. The new Lebanese cabinet has been announced, and includes multiple members from both Hezbollah and the Shi’ite Amal Movement. The...
Violence in Syria’s Homs and Hama Governorates have now spread across the border into neighboring Lebanon, and Syria’s new Islamist government has reportedly sent ground troops into the Lebanese border town of Hermel, sparking massive clashes. Both Lebanese clans and...
As it does virtually weekly, Israel reiterated today that civilians are not to return to their homes in any areas of southern Lebanon Israel currently occupies. This apparently includes not just villages, but the Mediterranean Sea as well, as an Israeli military boat...
Former a government in a multi-party parliamentary system is often a complex matter, particularly when very few parties of any substantial size are available to include. That’s the case in Lebanon, with the Trump Administration adding some difficulties by meddling in...
