Three Killed in Lebanon Attacks as Israel Issues New Occupation Map

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on Tuesday that its forces launched two more airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration continues a record-shattering bombing campaign in the country, which receives virtually no media coverage in the US. AFRICOM said in one press release that it launched a strike on September 4 about 108 miles west […]

South of the newly-established Yellow Line, Israel has established de facto military occupation of over 50 Lebanese municipalities, and has been demolishing homes and preventing the return to displaced locals. The destruction goes deeper than that, however. A new report from Israel’s Haaretz quotes numerous Israeli soldiers within southern Lebanon saying that the looting of […]

Futures Fall, Oil Rises As Mideast Violence Flares Up US futures are but well off session lows, as part of a weaker risk tape after the US and Iran exchanged strikes, fueling doubts whether an end to the war is imminent and crushing hopes for a Hormuz deal (gasp). Overnight, US forces carried out airstrikes on an Iranian military site which Centcom described as "purely defensive" and designed to maintain the ceasefire; it also imposed new sanctions to prevent Tehran from profiting from vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz....