Increased fighting between Hezbollah and Israel poses a significant threat to Lebanon’s “fragile stability” and the political progress seen after Joseph Aoun’s election as president in January. According to the annual threat assessment by the US intelligence community, a resumption of sustained Israeli operations in Lebanon could trigger a sharp rise in sectarian tensions, weaken Lebanese security…
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary. In his first interview to a global news agency, held after hundreds died in four days of clashes…
The US military said Sunday it killed a member of an al-Qaeda affiliate organization in a precision airstrike in Syria. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it conducted the strike Saturday “in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an al-Qaeda affiliate,” according to a…
The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on ISIS group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. “This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump said on Truth Social. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted…
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said Monday the bloc would raise the issue of Russian bases with Syria’s new leadership, arguing Moscow has no place in the country’s future. Russia, along with Iran, were the key backers of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and propped him up militarily during the brutal civil war. “Russia and…
Burkina Faso’s ruling junta has dismissed interim Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government, a decree issued by the office of military leader Ibrahim Traore said on Friday. The decree did not give a reason for the dismissal of Tambela, who was appointed interim premier soon after Traore seized power in…
A US-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters has seized the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, three Syrian sources told Reuters on Friday, the third city to fall out of the government’s control in a week. Two security sources based in eastern Syria said the alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, had taken…
At least seven mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner private military contractor group were killed in an attack in central Mali that was claimed by an affiliate of al-Qaeda in North Africa, Site Intelligence group said Friday. Wagner previously suffered heavy losses in a July battle with predominantly Tuareg rebels and extremists near Mali’s border with Algeria…
An Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an election day “terrorist attack,” the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The man, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, living in Oklahoma City after entering the US in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, was plotting the attack in the name of ISIS, according to the…
