Tag: Syria
At least 14 Iranian officers killed in double Damascus bus blast
At least 14 people were killed and several others were wounded in central Damascus on Wednesday morning in an explosion on a Syrian military bus, Syrian state TV reported.
According to additional reports from Syrian...
Syria accuses Israel of killing government official near Golan border
Syria on Sunday accused Israel of killing a high-ranking government official outside his home near the Israel-Syria border.
Midhat al-Saleh, 54, was the head of the Syrian government’s Golan Affairs Office and a former lawmaker....
Bennett: Israel to approve ‘national plan’ for Golan Heights
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that Israel would approve a “national plan” for the Golan Heights in six weeks’ time, calling the development of the area a “strategic goal” for the...
Lapid in Moscow: Israel reserves right to act against Iran to prevent nukes
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said during a state visit to Moscow on Thursday that the Jewish state reserves the right to act to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
After meeting with his counterpart, Russian Foreign...
Report: IDF intensifies attack options against Iranian missile, nuclear program
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday that Iran’s nuclear progress has led the military to hasten its operational preparations for preparing an attack option against Tehran’s nuclear...
Four Hezbollah members reportedly killed in alleged Israeli Syria strike
Israel launched missile strikes against targets in northern Syria early on Friday, according to Reuters.
The report cited a Syrian military source as saying that the strikes originated from the direction of Beirut, and triggered Syria’s...
Report: After Syria strike, IDF again warns Syrian military to cease cooperation with Hezbollah
Syrian opposition sources reported on Wednesday that following an alleged Israeli strike on a military post near the border on Tuesday, the Israeli military dropped leaflets warning the Syrian military to cease cooperating with...
Counter-terrorism expert: ‘Taliban has alliances with Islamist forces in Syria’
Propaganda messaging by Al-Qaeda has risen dramatically in recent weeks, in line with the takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban fundamentalist forces, an Israeli counter-terrorist expert has warned.
Michael Barak, a senior researcher at the Institute...
Israel faces Russia policy change, or perhaps political posturing, regarding Syria
Lebanese media outlets as well as Saudi Arabia’s London-based Asharq Al-Awsat have reported that Israel’s freedom of action against Iran in Syria is dwindling as Russia makes changes to its policy vis-à-vis its relationship with Israel....
Israeli court sentences woman who entered Syria to eight months in prison
The Nazareth Magistrates Court sentenced a young woman who crossed into Syria illegally and was returned to Israel earlier this year to eight months in prison on Monday.
In February, Syrian authorities took the 25-year-old...