Israeli forces continued to carry out strikes across southern Lebanon on Thursday, shelling villages, destroying homes, and spraying the surrounding area with machine gun fire. The main attacks were reported, as usual of late, in Nabatieh and Tyre Districts, and other incidents were reported in Sidon and Bint Jbeil Districts. Airstrikes were reported in Mansouri […]

President Donald Trump said an Iranian proposal that would have led to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was “not good enough,” adding that renewed US bombing of Iran after the midterm elections was “possible.” In an interview with Time released on Thursday, Trump was asked why he rejected a proposal from Iran last […]

Palestinians in Gaza City continued their mass funerals on Thursday, following the dozens of burials on Tuesday in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Today’s mass funeral saw another 105 victims of an Israeli attack buried in Martyrs Cemetery. The slain in this case were killed in a flurry of Israeli attacks on Yarmouk Square neighborhood on […]

The White House is threatening NATO allies Germany and France for refusing to release diesel fuel from their emergency inventories. “US officials said France and Germany could be cut off from future US diesel exports. Reuters first reported the US threat to its allies on Thursday after speaking with three people familiar with the discussions. […]

A US official said Washington plans to send a third aircraft carrier and an additional Marine division to the Middle East.  Last month, The Atlantic reported the USS Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to deploy to the Middle East, with the Department of War preparing to maintain two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region before […]

UPDATE: UK police said on Thursday that a 27-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in connection to the incident at RAF Fairford. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel warned the UK that Iran was plotting an attack inside the country, appearing to link the warning to the arrest of five men outside RAF Fairford earlier […]

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Wednesday that three ships had been struck by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) suggested it has been continuing daily attacks on vessels in the strategic waterway. Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for the IRGC, said the US […]

US Africa Command said in a press release on Wednesday that its forces launched two more airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration continues its record-shattering bombing campaign in the country, a war that’s ignored by US media despite AFRICOM announcing its strikes. The command said both strikes were launched on September 25, and that […]

CBS News reported on Saturday that the US Military has been working to establish “the groundwork for potential action around Cuba.” According to the report, CBS reviewed an internal US Army Reserve message sent to subordinate commands. The message requested an assessment on the feasibility of providing several types of units to US Southern Command […]

Nabatieh al-Fawqa has been the site of a lot of strikes in recent weeks, but today an incident was reported when a Lebanese soldier was escorting civilians back into the town to inspect their properties. The group came upon what is being described as a suspicious object, and in the ensuing explosion the Lebanese soldier […]

An Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, killing at least six Palestinians, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, 10 others were wounded in the strike. Photos of the aftermath show the strike destroyed a large van, which […]

On Tuesday night, the Senate voted against advancing a resolution that would have required the State Department to produce a report on the killing of US citizens by Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. An effort to discharge the resolution failed 47-51, with just one Republican — Sen. Rand Paul […]

US officials believe President Trump could order a return to “major combat operations” against Iran after the midterm elections, as Qatar-mediated negotiations have made little progress, Axios reported on Tuesday. Iran has maintained that it’s ready to fully open the Strait of Hormuz and enter negotiations on a final deal if the US ends its […]

The Kremlin said on Monday that arms control talks between the US and Russia should have begun “yesterday,” as no nuclear arms control treaties remain in effect between the two powers after New START expired earlier this year. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the negotiations on a potential replacement for New START should have begun […]

Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Tuesday that Yemeni forces recorded 35 Saudi airstrikes over the previous 24-hour period, which comes as ground fighting between Ansar Allah and Saudi-backed forces continues mainly in the southwestern Taiz province. “Over the past 24 hours, Saudi warplanes launched 35 airstrikes using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft, taking […]

The US military is set to complete its withdrawal from its remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday under a deal signed between the US and the Iraqi government in 2024. The US is officially ending the mission of the anti-ISIS coalition that began in 2014 after the US redeployed troops to Iraq following a 2011 […]

Israeli forces continued to carry out their usual cross-border raids into southwest Syria today, and while operations were reported in both Daraa and Quneitra Governorates, the most immediate focus seems to be on the northern part of Quneitra, with raids targeting local villages there unusually often. The village of Taranja in northern Quneitra got some […]

The town of Kadena in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, which hosts a US military base, has strongly protested a planned US deployment of a Typhon missile launcher, which can fire Tomahawk missiles that have a range of over 1,000 miles, putting mainland China in range. According to The Japan Times, the Okinawa Defense Bureau said the Typhon […]

A mass funeral was held in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday for dozens of Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks, whose remains have been recovered from the rubble. Reports vary on the number of people who were buried during the funeral, with Reuters reporting 41 and the Yaffa News Network reporting […]

The ongoing trilateral talks between the US, Lebanon and Israel are, as ever, accomplishing comparatively little. Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam held talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, seeking progress. Salam said it was important for the US to support “tangible results on the ground,” including steps toward an Israeli withdrawal from […]