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Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Syrian Army Told Hezbollah, Iranian Forces in Southern Syria to Conceal Identity

By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute

The forces were instructed to wear Syrian army uniforms, remove non-Syrian army flags and markings, not speak Farsi near Syrian citizens or foreign forces, refrain from using smartphone apps in Farsi, and present themselves as Syrian army officers or experts.

IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs

IDF Forces Shot at on Syrian Border; No Injuries

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

IDF forces returned fire towards the source of the gunfire in Syria.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Government / Russia

Russian Defense Ministry Warns 'Hot Heads' to Refrain from Provocative Actions in Syria

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"At present, Russian advisers are preparing Syrian military personnel for combat work on these modern air defense systems."

Israel / Syria / Russia

Russian FM: Any Change In Status Of Golan Heights Would Be Violation Of Int’l Agreements

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Tensions between Russia and Israel has increased ever since the Syrians shot down a Russian plane.

IDF & Security / Syria / Druze / News Briefs

Israel's Supreme Court Reduces Sentence for Druze Spy

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

In August 2012, Makat was released from prison after serving 27 years for previous security offenses.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Russia

Russia Shows Footage of S-300 Missiles Landing in Syria

By JNi.Media

The missile systems are shown being unloaded from the An-124-100 Ruslan strategic airlift aircraft at the Hmeymim air base in Syria.

Syria / News Briefs / Russia

Report: Syrian Air Defense Unit Jailed in Russian Air Force Base

By Jewish Press News Desk

The officers and soldiers from the air defense unit are imprisoned, according to the Syrian opposition.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Government / Iran / Russia

Netanyahu Calls Putin, Blames Syria, Iran

By JNi.Media

The Russians believe the Israeli Air Force is to blame for the crash of Russia’s Ilyushin Il-20 aircraft in Syria on September 17.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / Government / Iran / Russia

Russians Certain Giving Syria S-300 Missiles Won't Upset Relations with Israel

By JNi.Media

"It is not in Israel’s interest to add a serious country such as Russia to the list of its opponents."

Israel / Syria / US / Russia / International Conflicts

Syria: Civil War Won't End Because the US Is 'Coddling' Israel

By JNi.Media

"This interference satisfies the interests of Israel and runs counter to those of the Syrian people."

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Politics / China

China Denies Ties to Muslim Insurgents in Syria

By JNi.Media

An armed Uyghur Salafist jihadist group from China is fighting in the Syrian Civil War.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria

Doctors Beyond Borders: Israel’s Secret Fight to Save Syrian Lives

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

On February 16th, 2013, an IDF squad was carrying out a routine patrol on the Syrian border, when suddenly the patrol commander noticed something very strange...

Featured / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / United Nations (UN) / Iraq / ISIS

UN Report: ISIS Still Commands 30,000 Fighters, Many Near Israel's Border

By JNi.Media

Only two weeks ago, the IDF attacked and destroyed a squad of seven ISIS soldiers who crossed into the Golan Heights from Syria.

IDF & Security / Syria / Russia

Russian Military Police to Man 8 Permanent Posts near Israel-Syria Border

By JNi.Media

"They will serve as a security guarantee for civilians of the Quneitra district."

Syria

Liberman: Syria Undergoing Military Buildup

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Syrian army is not satisfied only with taking control of all the Syrian territory, but is building a new, large-scale armored corps.

IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs / Russia

Report: Russia to Establish Military Presence on Golan Border

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

...because Israel doesn't have enough complications to deal with along that border, as it is.

Israel / Syria / Health and Medicine

29 Syrian Patients Can't Safely Return Home from Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

There is concern that if they return home to Syria, Assad will jail or murder them.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Video of the Day

M*A*S*H : Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

By Video of the Day

Video: Israel's Mazor Ladach field clinic in Syria: August 2017 to August 2018, packing up and coming back home to Israel.

IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs / ISIS

Video: IDF Searches for the Dead ISIS Terrorists

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF released a short video after the ISIS terrorists were eliminated.

IDF & Security / Syria / Government / Iran / Russia

Russia's Ambassador: Moscow Can Only Ask Iran to Leave Syria

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"We can talk to our Iranian partners honestly and openly and try to convince them to do or not to do something. We cannot force them."

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / Russia / ISIS

Russia’s Command in Syria Thanks the IDF for Attacking ISIS

By JNi.Media

"All Islamic State terrorists and missile systems were destroyed by a pin-point retaliation strike of the Israel Defense Forces warplanes and artillery."

IDF & Security / Syria

Syrian Rockets Land in Lake Kinneret

By Jewish Press News Desk

Residents reported hearing two loud explosions.

Israel / Syria

Netanyahu: Israel Will Not Tolerate ‘Spillover’ From Syrian Civil War

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"We insist that the Syrians strictly abide by the Separation of Forces Agreement between us and them."

Featured / Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

IDF Patriot Missiles Shoots Down Syrian Sukhoi Warplane Over Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Syrian Sukhoi warplane crossed over into Israel, flying two kilometers within Israeli territory

Headline / Israel / Syria

PM Netanyahu: US, Canada Asked Israel to Help Evacuate the Syrian 'White Helmets'

By Jewish Press News Desk

Netanyahu approved their passage through Israel as an important humanitarian gesture.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / US / Global / Jordan / Health and Medicine

IDF Evacuates Syrian 'White Helmets' Civil Defense Members Fearing for their Lives to Jordan

By JNi.Media

The White Helmets have been the target of a disinformation campaign by Syrian and Russian regime propaganda outlets

IDF & Security / Syria

IDF Provides Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Refugees at Border

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“The IDF will continue to monitor the events in southern Syria, and is prepared for a wide range of scenarios."

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / The Courts / Israeli Arabs / ISIS

Israeli-Arab Man Indicted For Joining ISIS In Syria After Crossing Border With Paraglider

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

In October 2015 Salah was successful in taking off and gliding across the border, avoiding Syrian fire shot in his direction along the way.

Featured / Israel / Syria

Exclusive: Syrian Locals Denounce Assad, Putin; Plead With Israel for Protection

By Andrew Friedman / TPS

“Every day (people are standing) at the Israeli border, every day, calling on Israel to protect them or to allow international forces to (protect them)… we wish (the Israelis) to came here and protect these people, either under the United Nations flag or the Israeli flag. I don’t know how, but the politicians have to solve this problem.”

Israel / Syria

Golan Residents Collect Toys For Syrian Refugee Children

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Hundreds of people volunteered to bring goodie bags from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramat Gan and elsewhere to Syrian children.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Russia / International Conflicts

With Russian Support Assad Already Rules Southwestern Syria

By JNi.Media

As many as 160,000 Syrians have fled the war zone to the Jordanian and Israeli borders, where neither country is prepared to let them in.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / US / Russia

Report: Moscow Curbing Enthusiasm about Putin-Trump Summit

By JNi.Media

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the summit, noting, with a hint and a nudge to the White House, "As long as we remain united (within NATO), we can dialogue with Russia."

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Report: 45,000 Refugees Headed for Israel after Syria Decimates Daraa

By JNi.Media

"Israel is working to create a region without violence in Syria, and possibly the region will include unarmed Syrian fighters, and police who be allowed to operate without heavy weapons."

IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

IDF Concerned Pro-Iranian Forces in Syria Will Use Israeli Humanitarian Aid to Infiltrate Israel

By JNi.Media

Israel is worried that Hezbollah and Iran will infiltrate Israel disguised as wounded Syrian civilians.

Headline / Syria / US / Iran / Jordan / Hezbollah

US Tells Syrian Rebels They're on Their Own, as Russian Airplanes Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian Rebels report that the Russians are providing air support to Assad's forces attacking in southern Syria.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Report: Assad Army Ready to Take on Rebels Alongside Golan Border

By JNi.Media

Both Israel and Jordan fear that Iranian militias reach the border and become assimilated by the Assad regime.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Hezbollah / ISIS

IDF Drone Crashes in Syria

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The IDF stressed in a statement that there was no danger of intelligence information from the aircraft leaking to the Syrians.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Hezbollah

Arab Report: Israel Destroyed Syrian Pantsir-S1 Air Defense System on Friday Night

By Jewish Press News Desk

Last week, Hezbollah claimed the Russian made anti-aircraft system was being deployed on the Golan Heights to block Israeli attacks.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Hezbollah / Sports / Russia

Russia Asks Israel Not to Strike Syria as World Cup Kicks Off in Russia for First Time

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Syria Boosting Air Defenses Near Israel's Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

The move comes ahead of Assad's planned offensive against the Syria rebels in Syria's south.

Syria / Iran / Hezbollah

Report: Iran, Hezbollah Return to Syria in Disguise

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

After apparent withdrawal, Hezbollah and Iranian fighters return “in regime vehicles and dressed in regular Syrian army uniforms,” rebel commanders tell The Wall Street Journal • Israel “is very much aware of basically everything happening in [its] backyard.”

Syria / News Briefs

244 Civilians Including 58 Children Killed in Syria in May

By Jewish Press News Desk

May had the least number of dead Syrian civilians since the civil war began.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Lebanon / Hezbollah / Russia

Liberman, in Moscow, Thanks Russia for ‘Understanding’ Israel Security Needs

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Russia is widely believed to have agreed not to interfere with Israeli military action taken against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria.

Featured / Headline / Syria / Russia

Assad Insists Victory Is Around the Corner

By JNi.Media

Is President Assad delusional? Probably – you can't be reduced to the post of Mayor of Damascus and still call yourself President of Syria without a hefty doze of delusional thinking.

Headline / Syria / United Nations (UN)

Syria to Head Up UN Disarmament Forum Today

By JNi.Media

There must be some twisted UN logic to appointing the country with the most recent experience in using chemical weapons on civilians to the forum that tries to ban their use in the first place.

Syria / Iran / News Briefs

Syria Forbids Iran from Using Syrian Air Force Hangers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Syrians want the Israeli attacks to stop and figured out how to stop them.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Report: Syrian Rebels Conducted Search For Remains Of Israeli Soldiers

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Three Israeli soldiers have been missing since the battle of Sultan Yacoub in the 1982 Lebanon War.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Lebanon

Iran Denies Losing Any Fighters in Homs Rocket Attack

By JNi.Media

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday that Israel had attacked the a-Dab'a airport, which is not far from the border with Lebanon.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Israeli Air Force Chief: We're First to Use F-35s in Combat

By JNi.Media

Two weeks after the most extensive Israeli assault on Syria since the Yom Kippur War, Major General Norkin said, "The Adir planes are already operational and are flying operational missions."

Headline / Syria / Iran

Somebody Launched Rocket Attack on Iranian Cargo Shipment to Syria

By JNi.Media

A few hours earlier, the Bosphorous Observer reported that a large Syrian cargo plane left Tehran for Damascus.

Syria / Iran / Russia

Lavrov, Zarif, Seek Salvaging Iran's Nuclear Deal, Syrian Presence

By JNi.Media

Lavrov and Zarif will discuss the situation in Syria, which has deteriorated on May 10 after Israel had delivered a deadly retaliatory strike on Iranian military positions in Syria.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran

Everything Destroyed: IDF Releases Aerial Images of Attacked Iranian Targets

By JNi.Media

The Russians were not necessarily unhappy to see Iran get a severe nose bleed from the Israeli attacks, since Iran has introduced an unacceptable level of instability to the area.

IDF & Security / Syria / History / Iran / Lebanon / Islamists / On Campus / Education / Hezbollah / Religion

Iran Specialist Says Israel May Be Forced to Re-Conquer Lebanon

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Dr. Eldad Pardo: Israel could be left with “no choice” but to recapture parts of Lebanon, should hostilities with Hezbollah reignite.

Featured / Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Government / Iran / Hezbollah

Liberman at Herzliya Conference: 'We Hit Almost Entire Iranian Infrastructure in Syria'

By JNi.Media

“We are facing a new reality where Iran is attacking Israel directly and trying to harm Israel’s sovereignty and territories.”

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Naftali Bennett: 'Syria Will Be Iran’s Vietnam'

By JNi.Media

“While Nasrallah portrays himself as the defender of the Lebanese people, he must understand that if he plays the Iranian card he will destroy his country.”

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Hezbollah

IDF Orders Bomb Shelters Opened on Golan Heights

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF has deployed fully defensive measures on the Golan Height.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Russia

We'll Assassinate Assad, Warns Senior Israeli Minister

By JNi.Media

Minister Yuval Steinitz pulled no punches when he made Israel's red lines clear.

IDF & Security / Syria / Government / Russia

Russia Confirms Will Supply Syria with 'New Air Defense Systems'

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Liberman said: “One thing needs to be clear. If someone fires at our planes, we will destroy them ... If they shoot at us we will respond. It doesn’t matter if it’s the S-300 or the S-700 or any other system.”

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Government / Iran / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Liberman: Iran Leading United Northern Front Against Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“The northern front presents a paramount strategic challenge that necessitates the IDF and the rest of the security establishment to strengthen even further its readiness."

Headline / Syria / Politics / Boycott / BDS

Roger Waters: Syrian Chemical Attack 'Fake News'

By JNi.Media

"The White Helmets are a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for the jihadists and terrorists," Waters asserted.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Russia

IDF Fears Harsh Russian Response to Allies' Attack in Syria

By JNi.Media

"This attack will allow the Americans to say, We have done what is necessary, then leave Syria, forcing Israel to deal with the Iranian threat on the northern border on its own."

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Government / History / Iran / Jerusalem / Russia / Holocaust

At Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony, Netanyahu Warns Iran: ‘Don’t Test Israel’s Resolve’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.

Israel / Syria / Iran / News Briefs

Iran Warns It Will Respond To Syria Strike; Israeli Ambassador To Russia Summoned

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the strike on the base a “very dangerous development.”

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran

Report: 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Killed in T-4 Attack in Syria

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab sources say Israel hit a secret Iranian command and control center in Syria.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran

Russia Claims Israel Did It

By Jewish Press News Desk

Russia claims Israel hit the Syrian T4 air force base.

Headline / Syria / US

Someone Hit a Syrian Airbase, But No One Wants the Credit

By Jewish Press News Desk

Speculation is that it was a US attack in response to Syria's chemical weapon attack against civilians. But Israel could also be involved.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Photo of the Day

The Secret Operation Revealed a Decade Later

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

IDF operational details from Operation Out of the Box which destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

A Race Against Time: The Story of How Israel Decided to Bomb Syria’s Nuclear Reactor

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Former Defense Minister MK Amir Peretz tells his part in the story leading up to the attack...

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Israel Lifts Censorship, Confirms 2007 Attack on Syrian Nuclear Reactor

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The operation to destroy the reactor, code-named “Operation Out Of The Box” was carried out by fighter jets following an intensive intelligence operation over a continued period of time, and removed a nuclear threat from Israel and the entire region.

Headline / Syria / Science and Tech / Russia / International Conflicts

Report: Russia Using Syria's Civil War to Showcase Its Stealth Jet Sukhoi 57

By JNi.Media

Another explanation to the Russians' decision to transfer the SU-57 to the Middle East might be their concern, even panic, over the US Air Force bombing of a Russian convoy which killed hundreds of mercenaries.

Featured / Syria / Iran / Russia / International Conflicts

Russian Official Warns Iran Not to Use 'De-escalation Zones' for Military Expansion

By JNi.Media

"The zones are necessary from the point of view of ending warfare, but at the same time it is impermissible to see the de-escalation zones turning into zones of influence of foreign states."

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / US / International Conflicts

Tsurkov: As US Role Declines, Israeli Investment in Syrian Rebels Increasing

By JNi.Media

Israel has provided drone strikes and shelling with high-precision missiles on ISIS targets during defensive and offensive rebel operations.

IDF & Security / Syria / Iran

Minister Galant: Next Time We'll Take Off the Gloves in Syria

By JNi.Media

"Anyone preparing 100,000 rockets in Lebanon is not planning to use them to deliver flowers."

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Science and Tech

Syria's Anti-Aircraft Missiles May Be Outdated, But Can Still Inflict Damage

By JNi.Media

"There are long-range surface-to-air missiles like the SA5, which, although they are outdated and stationary launch pads, can intercept planes deep inside Israel."

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran / Russia

Israeli F-16 Shot Down in Biggest Attack on Syrian Anti-Aircraft Batteries Since 1982

By JNi.Media

Sending in the drone may have been a planned Iranian provocation, expecting that shooting this many rockets at the incoming Israeli planes would hit at least one.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Syria Gunfire Hits Home in Majdal Shams on Israeli Golan Heights

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian forces opened fire on an IDF drone flying over the Golan Heights.

Syria / US / Russia / International Conflicts

Russian FM: US Wants a Divided Syria

By JNi.Media

On Wednesday, the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria conducted air and artillery attacks on pro-regime forces in Syria, killing an estimated 100 pro-regime fighters.

Israel / Syria / Iran / Lebanon

Report: Senior Iranian Cleric Ebrahim Raisi Visited Lebanon-Israel Border

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Ebrahim Raisi is a hardline Iranian cleric who is considered to be in the running to replace Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Syria / Kurds / Kurdistan

Kurdish Fighters Blow Up Turkish Tank [Video]

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkey has been attacking the Kurds in Afrin, in an attempt to drive them out of the region.

Featured / Syria / Russia / International Conflicts

Syrian Rebels Shoot Down Russian Sukhoi 25 Fighter Jet, Kill Pilot

By JNi.Media

The downing of the plane came as Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air support and Iranian infantry, have intensified their offensive in Idlib, one of the last rebel-held bastions in Syria.

IDF & Security / Syria / US / Iran

A Grateful Syria Condemns Trump's, Zionists' Stance on 'Current Situation in Iran'

By JNi.Media

"Syria also voiced full confidence that the Iranian leadership, government and people will be able to thwart this conspiracy."

Headline / Terrorism / Syria / US / Police and Crime / Iran / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Report: Obama Muzzled Anti-Hezbollah Operations to Secure Iran Deal

By JNi.Media

Having established their clandestine policy of protecting Hezbollah from American and international law enforcement agencies, the Obama administration proceeded to delay efforts to prosecute Hezbollah's international criminals.

Featured / Syria / US / Russia / ISIS / International Conflicts

Putin, Assad, Declare Syrian Civil War Is Over

By JNi.Media

Russia is ready to deal a new blow to terrorists if they again try to break peace in Syria, Putin said.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Hezbollah

Syrian Army, Hezbollah, Ammunition Depot near Quneitra Blown Up

By JNi.Media

The entire area north of Quneitra woke up to the sound of a dull explosion, followed by a column of smoke in the area north of Khan Arnabah, a stronghold of the Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian armies.

Syria / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Report: Hezbollah Enters Quneitra

By Jewish Press News Desk

Quneitra, located on the Golan Heights, is alongside Israel's border.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria / Iran

Syria: Israel Attacked Iranian Base outside Damascus

By JNi.Media

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned about Iran's plan to establish a permanent military presence in Syria, and said that "Israel will not let that happen."

Syria / Iran / Hezbollah

Hezbollah to Concentrate on Quneitra Next

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hezbollah wants to establish a second front with Israel.

Featured / IDF & Security / Syria / Health and Medicine

First Maternity Hospital in South Syria Opens on Israeli Border

By JNi.Media

In the years since the Syrian civil war began, in 2011, area sick and pregnant women were admitted in a field hospital set up by the IDF for the Israel-aligned rebels and their families on the Israeli border.

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / US / Iran / Hezbollah / Russia

War May be Inevitable as Iran Completes Military Base 35 Miles from Israeli Border

By JNi.Media

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have established a new militia named Brigade 313 in Southern Syria.

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