By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Iranian military has announced attacks on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a US air base in Kuwait after the US struck a tanker attempting to reach Iran’s Kharg Island, as the region is again on the brink of plunging back into full-scale war. Continue reading “Iran Targets US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain After US Bombs Oil Tanker and Qeshm Island”

By Lylla Younes – Drop Site News

BEIRUT, Lebanon—When Lebanon and Israel announced a ceasefire agreement on April 16, Nasreen Abd Elaal and her husband and four children packed their few belongings and departed the public school in Marj al-Zuhoor where they had taken shelter—for the last time, they hoped. They returned the next day to their home in Ain Arab, a small village nestled in the plains near the southern border, where they run a small butcher shop and corner store. That same day, Israeli forces entered the village and established a curfew, warning local residents not to leave their homes after dark, before setting up a checkpoint on the exit road leading south. Continue reading ““You Either Leave Right Now or You Die”—Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of a Village in Lebanon”

By Dave DeCamp – Aniwar.com

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Monday that Iran would be in a “direct confrontation with the enemy” if Israel doesn’t halt its attacks in Lebanon.

Ghalibaf made the comments in a post on X recounting a conversation he had with Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and leader of the Amal Movement, a Shia political faction that’s largely aligned with Hezbollah. Continue reading “Ghalibaf Says Iran Will Be in ‘Direct Confrontation’ With Israel If It Doesn’t Halt Attacks on Lebanon”