CENTCOM

LAF Clears Thousands of Weapons in Southern Lebanon, Says CENTCOM

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have cleared nearly 10,000 rockets, 400 missiles and more than 205,000 fragments of unexploded ordnance in the past year as part of a sweeping disarmament campaign in southern Lebanon, according to a statement released on Thursday by US Central Command (CENTCOM). The figures were highlighted during the 11th ...

Gaza: Senior US Military Official Urges Hamas to “Stop Firing on Palestinian Civilians”

A senior US official for the Middle East (CENTCOM) called on Wednesday for Hamas to “stop firing on Palestinian civilians” following the release by the Palestinian Islamist movement of a video showing summary executions of alleged “collaborators.” “We strongly urge Hamas to cease targeting innocent Palestinian ...

Top US Military Commander Visits Gaza, Reaffirms No US Troops to be Deployed There

The head of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Saturday he visited Gaza to discuss post-conflict stabilization and insisted no US troops will be deployed to the Palestinian territory. Admiral Brad Cooper wrote on X that he just returned from a trip to Gaza to discuss the creation of a CENTCOM-led "civil-military coordination center" ...

Team of 200 US Troops to 'Oversee' Gaza Truce

A US military team of 200 people will be deployed in the Middle East to "oversee" the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after a peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump, senior US officials said Thursday. Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of the US military's Central Command, "will initially have 200 people on the ground. His role will be ...

Al-Sharaa Says Syria in Talks with Israel on Security Deal

President Ahmad al-Sharaa said Friday that Syria was negotiating with Israel to reach a security agreement that would see Israel leave areas it occupied after the December overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. As the Islamist-led forces toppled Assad on December 8, Israel deployed troops to the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights ...

US military Announces Detention of Islamic State Leader

US military officials announced Wednesday the detention of an Islamic State group (IS) leader during international coalition operations in Iraq and Syria, which also killed two other operatives. US Central Command wrote on X that the operations, conducted from May 21 to 27, "served to disrupt and degrade" IS's ability to "reconstitute, plan, ...

US Says Killed Military Leader of Syria Al-Qaeda Affiliate

The US Army said Saturday it had killed a top military leader of Hurras al-Din, a Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda which announced its dissolution in January. The US Central Command (CENTCOM), in charge of American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement that its forces on February 23 "conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria, ...

Allied Forces Target Six Houthi Drones

The US military announced, on Thursday, that American and allied forces intercepted six drones launched by Yemen's Houthis, which were suspected of targeting warships in the vicinity. American and allied forces shot down six drones launched by Yemen's Houthi insurgents that were likely targeting warships in the area, the US military said ...