Tag: Syria
Gunfire from Syria targets Israeli drone, hits Druze house
Gunshots were fired from Syria at an Israeli drone Thursday night and missed their target, instead hitting a house in the town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
No injuries...
Experts warn of ‘escalation’ between Israel and Russia over Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week did not appear to resolve the two countries’ differing objectives in Syria, and it remains unclear if the status-quo can continue.
Russian...
Holocaust museum pulls study absolving Obama administration for inaction in face of Syrian genocide
A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration’s Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock and harsh criticism by...
Mosul is liberated—But not yet free
There are joyous liberations. Of Paris in 1944, for example—a liberation insurrectionary and exultant. And then there are leaden liberations: Warsaw’s in 1944; Berlin’s in 1945; and, more recently, Sarajevo’s.
The liberation of Mosul obviously...
Middle Israel: When Bashar Assad met General Franco
Bashar Assad has risen from the dead.
Confident, brazen and annoyingly soft-spoken, the man who two years ago was discounted as a dead man walking emerged Sunday in the Syrian Foreign Ministry where he wowed...
Netanyahu to Putin: Iran want to take over Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, during which Netanyahu stated that Iran's growing role in Syria poses a threat to Israel, the Middle East and the world. Following...
Growing threats in Syria causing concern for Israel
Israelis still remember the trauma of the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Egyptian and Syrian armies surprised the Jewish state on its holiest day with a jointly coordinated military attack.
For a day or two,...
Netanyahu: Israel won’t tolerate Iranian bases in Lebanon, Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel opposes the US-Russian-brokered cease-fire in Syria because it perpetuates Iran’s military presence in the country. Diplomatic sources said that Iran wants to establish air, land...
Iran’s missile strike seen aimed at US, Israel
Fears that the Iranian nuclear agreement would pave the way for Iran to develop a missile program that threatens Israel, the U.S. and its allies came to fruition Sunday when Iran fired six missiles...
Report: Israel bombs targets in Syria causing massive explosions
Israel’s Air Force (IAF) carried out a series of airstrikes near the Damascus International Airport in Syria early Thursday morning, Arab media reported.
The Hezbollah-linked Al Mayadeen television channel reported a huge blast at the...