While the US loudly applauded the regime change in Syria back in December, their interaction with the new Islamist government in Damascus has been fairly limited. It is now being reported that the US sent Syria a list of demands, and offered “partial sanctions relief”...
Lebanese officials, including President Aoun and Prime Minister Salam have been in “intensive contact” with the US and French government in recent days, as Israel escalates its airstrikes against southern Lebanon and threatens attacks on the capital city of Beirut....
President Trump has faced more than a few controversies with his broad use of executive orders since retaking office in January. It looks like a new issue may be being stirred up with one of his most recent, invoking wartime emergency powers to dramatically increase...
Continuing a trend of selling large amounts of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, the State Department has delivered certification informing Congress of their intention to sell a package of 2,000 laser-guided APKWS II missiles and assorted parts to the Saudis for an estimated...
While continuing to closely tie the recent US attacks on the Houthis in Yemen to Iran, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz confirmed that the Trump Administration is demanding “full dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear program, including its capacity to enrich uranium...
US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus has delivered an ultimatum to the Lebanese government demanding that they form committees to participate in direct negotiations with Israel by month’s end or face an escalation of US-backed Israeli attacks on Lebanese...
Updated 3/15/25 11:39 PM EDT US airstrikes are reportedly hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, with President Trump promising “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthi movement in northern Yemen unless they stop all attacks on international shipping....
Weeks after the February 18 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon has come and gone, IDF troops remain at the five hilltop surveillance posts they hastily constructed in southern Lebanon ahead of that deadline, and there are increasing signs that this is an...
Last weekend, it was reported that the US attacked and killed Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a “senior leadership facilitator” for Hurras al-Din, in an attack in Syria’s Idlib Governorate. Around that time, it was also being reported another US drone strike had happened in...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued its quarterly report on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, and like clockwork media outlets responded with hysterical speculation about Iranian nuclear weapons despite this report being not materially dissimilar...
