From last month: Syria says weapons used in Mezzeh airport attacks traced to Hezbollah share.google/iKM5bQZ2q39Q...

Trump post about Iran

Following Syrian TV coverage on this — they claim it’s Israeli propaganda.

Why not? We can take it in one strike with Iran.

Leavitt on reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to help them target US assets: "Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter"

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

"In a series of 2019 interviews with the FBI, the woman said she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She also alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was between the ages of 13 and 15." 1/ www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The first days of bombing in Iran saw far more sites targeted than any recent US or Israeli military campaign, an Airwars analysis has found. Initial indications suggest the rate of civilian harm has been high. — @airwars.bsky.social airwars.org/record-pace-...

Syria will not target Hezbollah positions inside Lebanon. english.enabbaladi.net/archives/202...

Where are all the people rising up to overthrow the government? This is why Trump & Bibi don’t want journalist on the ground in Iran, their propaganda arms are working overtime to portray the opposite. Thanks CNN & Frank Pleitgen for some surprisingly honest reporting #EpsteinWar

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

BREAKING NEWS - Lebanon: Sounds of heavy clashes are being heard in the Nabi Sheet area of ​​Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, amid reports of Israeli helicopters and a landing operation in the area. This coincides with intense airstrikes on the Bekaa Valley.

🇱🇧 : Hezbollah confirms it clashed with an Israeli force in the town of Nabi Sheet in the Bekaa Valley following an airborne operation.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

And suddenly everyone forgot about the Epstein files.

Meanwhile in Suleymaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Iranian border:

Just heard a commentator on Syria TV say: “The peoples of the Middle East want this war to stop. Otherwise, the region will turn into hell.”

According to President Zelensky, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 PAC-3 missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war. Source: Kyiv Post

Friendly note, @cnn.com @clarissaward.bsky.social : if you’re explaining the Kurds, the map really matters. The majority of inhabitants across northern Syria are Arabs, and Deir Ezzor is Arab with no Kurdish population. Painting large swaths of these areas as Kurdish is misleading.

Group called Jund Karar claims to have targeted US base Tower 22 in Jordan with suicide drone today, in retaliation for Iran bombing. This is the base where US troops from Al-Tanf were relocated last month. Yesterday, US base in Rumailan (Hasakah) also attacked. — @qalaatalmudiq.bsky.social on X.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war — @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Meanwhile ISIS declared a war on the Syrian government recently..

Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled Lebanon in the past two days, and Lebanese are also fleeing to Syria.

Israel started to bomb southern Beirut a while ago - Syria TV

Some clarity on the, reported, (Iranian) Kurdish mobilization in Iran - it’s, actually, Iraqi Kurds not Peshmerga, out of Iraq to the, shared, border

Update. The Istanbul - Aleppo route is open again from today.

Ach nee. Arabieren wilden (al jaren) van het repressieve (Assad's bondgenoot) PKK af die hun gebieden bezette en kinderen kidnapte.

This is being hyped by Israeli media and sources... who are publishing a secret intelligence operation so... that Iran can attack the area... (....)

Axios deleted their original tweet on this. "Axios belongs to the Israeli intelligence" a Palestinian commentator from Nazareth told Syria TV the other day... Well, it looks like..

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Deputy speaker Kurdistan Region (Erbil) Parliament:

An alert for Ukraine and its weapon buyer EU.

Iran war could mean shortages of Patriot defence missiles for Ukraine

Airport Road, Beirut. First strike inside the capital. 2 cars were struck 🇱🇧 Health Ministry: 3 killed, 6 wounded in Israeli strikes around Beirut. Rocket salvos are now being launched from southern 🇱🇧 . Israel’s Channel 12 reports 8 rockets were fired from 🇱🇧 w/o warning sirens being activated.

Israel hits Comfort Hotel in greater Beirut without warning; more residents displaced across Lebanon.

EU Commission backs Spain after Trump’s Iran war trade threat to Sánchez

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Axios is backtracking..

"I was in Baghdad in 2003, and this illusion that you can bomb a people into freedom is baseless. And we saw what happened in Iraq ... in Afghanistan ... Wars don't give freedom and democracy to people," says DAWN's Raed Jarrar. See the full interview with TRT World: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEo...

This. And especially by Israeli media Axios included.

Erbil:

The KDP denied this.

If you’re paid by the U.S. or Israel to go fight in another country, isn’t that what we call a mercenary?

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily. defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...