Tag: Syria
Mission not accomplished
The five days it took the U.S. administration to respond to a chemical attack in Syria were vital in order to on one hand consolidate a diplomatic coalition with two other U.N. Security Council...
In ironic twist, Syria to head UN panel on chemical disarmament
Despite allegations that it carried out yet another deadly chemical-weapons attack last Saturday, Syria will next month chair the United Nations disarmament forum that produced the treaty banning chemical weapons.
Syria will assume the presidency of the...
US-Russia Military Encounter in Syria: Implications for Israel
For the most part, Israel has always been able to identify and manage its own particular involvements with Syria, regarding both the incessantly criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad and the sub-national groups in-league with...
Israeli security heads confer after Trump’s threat to bomb Syria
Top-level Israeli security officials met Wednesday to prepare for scenarios in which Israel is attacked by Iran or Syria, following a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump declaring he would bomb Syria.
Iran, which has...
Israel’s intelligence ‘factory’: A decade of development
In the 11 years that followed since the Israeli strike on Syria’s nuclear-weapons production site, a quiet revolution has occurred within the Israeli defense establishment.
Today, the Israel Defense Forces’ ability to detect, analyze and...
Syria to chair UN disarmament forum on chemical weapons; watchdog urges US-EU walk-out
Despite accusations that it perpetrated yet another deadly chemical weapons attack on Saturday, Syria will next month chair the United Nations disarmament forum that produced the treaty banning chemical weapons, sparking calls by an...
Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat
The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to...
AP misuse of photograph erroneously links Syrian gas-attack victims to Israel
According to an Associated Press headline on April 9, Israel is being blamed for a pre-dawn strike on a Syrian military base. The large photo that the wire service opted to use alongside that headline, though,...
Russia and Syria accuse Israel of bombing base, killing 14
Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Russian defense ministry accused Israel of launching a predawn missile strike on Monday on a Syrian air base, killing 14 people, including numerous Iranian military personnel.
Israeli officials have...
Trump repeats Obama’s mistakes on Syria
After eight years of dealing with an American president who considered establishing more “daylight” between the United States and Israel, the last 15 months has been a whole lot easier for Israeli Prime Minister...