Live updates and links about vehicle “explosion” in Syria near Lebanon border
Reports on Wednesday at around 13:00 claimed a vehicle had been struck by something in Syria at the Lebanese border. The place is جديدة يابوس In English the name is […]
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Hezbollah: Foreign interference behind Lebanon protests
Echoing Iran state media, Hadi al-Amiri, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Qais Khazali, and other pro-Iran voices, Hezbollah says the protests in Lebanon over the past weeks were due to US and […]
Syria downplays earlier claims of Israeli airstrike at Kiswah on Nov. 29 (with sources)
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Thursday night social media accounts that follow Syria lit up with reports of airstrikes south of Damascus. For instance Danny Makki began reporting the strike […]
Iran IRGC brags about its “bases from Red Sea to Mediterranean”, suggests US will leave Iraq
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran Brigadier General Hossein Salami told a forum at the University of Damghan in Semnan province […]
Iran’s air corridor to Hezbollah: Background and briefing on the latest claims
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A Fars Air Qeshm flight Boeing 747 touched down in Beirut at 2:04 pm on October 16. The large white aircraft had left Tehran at 9:33am […]
This is the warehouse Israel struck in Latakia
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 19 satellite images showed the destruction of a warehouse in Latakia that was targeted on September 17. In the images, published on i24 and […]
Trump signed National Defense Authorization Act with a lot of Iran in it, here’s every important thing you need to know
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The National Defense Authorization Act that US President Donald Trump signed today (August 13) at a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, NY includes almost 100 references […]
The June 18 airstrike on Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah in Syria has been blamed on Israel, here’s how it unfolded
Breaking: Mystery surrounds overnight airstrikes on pro-Syrian regime fighters June 18, 0800 hours Jerusalem time After Syrian regime blamed US and US denied the attacks, questions remain over who carried […]
Who is Ali al Amine and why was he attacked by Hezbollah
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On April 22, 2018 Ali al-Amine (Amin علي الامين), a Lebanese politician and journalist was attacked and hospitalized. He was a candidate for the Shbeana Haki […]
Reading between the lines of the Russia-US statement on Syria in Vietnam
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On November 11 US President Donald Trump and President of Russia Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the APEC conference in Danang, Vietnam. They issued […]
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