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A mortar shell was fired at Israel from Syria late Sunday evening. Israel responded swiftly.
Bogus tweets from hacked IDF account praised 'Palestine' and warned of a nuclear leak.
By JTA
A Jewish-Muslim family from Syria escaped from the country’s civil war to Israel.
A fire department crew reported that they were fired on Saturday night from Syria.
“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple
By Shalom Bear
An unprovoked Syrian attack killed an Israel boy on vacation from school. The IDF retaliated and hit multiple Syrian military targets in response.
Eight hours after Mohammed Karake was killed by a Syrian anti-tank missile, no Palestinian or human rights org has condemned the crime.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An apparent deliberate attack from Syria on the Golan Heights has killed 1 Israeli child and injured 2 adults.
Iran -- ironically -- has issued a warning that Sunni militants are trying to create 'disunity' in the Muslim world.
Jordan appears to be the next target for the Al Qaeda-linked ISIS terrorist group, says an Arab news writer.
An additional 10,000 Syrian refugees will be permitted to enter Germany.
By Rachel Levy
The Al Qaeda-linked ISIL group is now eyeing Baghdad after swallowing northern and central Iraq, and eastern Syria. Emirate to follow?
The German government is cracking down on those who fight in the Syrian civil war; one who returned has been charged with terrorism.
For the first time since 2008, Iran's president has arrived in Turkey on a state visit.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Fawzi Ayoub, a Hezbollah terrorist who was imprisoned in Israel for an attempted terrorist attack in Jerusalem and was also on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list, finally met his death in Syria last month.
Syrian Rebels are claiming that Israel fired the anti-tank missiles after 2 mortars landing within Israel.
11.3% of Population to be culled.
Current Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is expected to "win".
An early morning round of rockets from Syria hit locations on the Hermon Mountain.
Residents on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights were woken up by alert sirens at 5:55 AM on Saturday morning, in response to fighting in Syria along the border with Israel.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Colonel Mohammad Eskandari, was identified as the man that was beheaded in Syria last week. He was beheaded by the Al Qaida linked Al-Nusra Front Syrian opposition. Iran and Hezbollah support Assad in the battle for control over Syria, while Al-Qaida and the US support the rebels/opposition/freedom fighters. Iranian soldiers […]
Syria oldest synagogue was flattened and destroyed over the weekend.
Syrian border has been quietist in Israel for more than 40 years. Could al-Qaeda on the border change that?
“The phenomenon of Israeli Arabs going to Syria presents a tremendous threat to the State of Israel," said Shabak officials
In photos of the two bloody crucified Syrians, passersby don't even give them a second glance.
Syrian soldiers and rebels killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 100 others in a car bomb blast in a regime-held neighborhood in Homs and mortar shelling attacks in Damascus. The car bomb explosion killed 36 people and wounded more than 85, most of them civilians. In Damascus, at least 17 died and […]
Bashar Assad will be running for president of Syria again...
The United States has announced it possesses evidence the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians.
On Friday afternoon, Syrian fighter jets hit opposition/rebel targets and villages on the Syrian side of the Ramat HaGolan (Golan Heights), in the Quneitra region. Large pillars of smoke are seen rising from struck areas. Quneitra is the site of an official crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan. IAF jets were sent out […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A report in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, citing sources in Lebanon, said Hezbollah is facing increasing financial pressure over austerity measures by the Iranian government since President Hassan Rouhani took office last summer, as well as strain over the terror group’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. Additionally, the report said Hezbollah is facing financial […]
A masked terrorist shot killed a widely-known Dutch priest and another priest in the city of Homs Monday, another sign of what the awaits the Christian minority whenever the civil war ends. Christians have tried to stay neutral in the war but have been victimized by all sides – Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, an Alawite, […]
A Syrian mortar shell landed and exploded near the security fence in the central Golan Heights Monday afternoon. No injuries or damage was reported. The IDF said that the firing probably was not intended to strike Israel.
The Saudi Arabian government a new law aimed at outlawing any activity loosely connected to terrorism -- or criticism of the government.
On Friday night, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked 3 Arabs that infiltrated from Syria into Israel on the Golan Heights.
There are three words that explain Israel’s rejuvenated ties with Turkey: Iran, Syria and money.
By Sean Savage
Despite the massive humanitarian toll and the use of chemical weapons against his own people, over the past year Assad has seen his fortunes improve as Western and Arab countries, unsuccessful in ending the conflict diplomatically, have been unwilling to directly intervene.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
IDF Targets Several Syrian Positions in Response to Attack on Israeli Army Jeep.
IDF forces retaliated against several Syrian military sites early Wednesday morning.
A bomb exploded along Israel's border with Syria, four soldiers were injured, one seriously.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah-backed Al Manar satellite network claimed on Tuesday that the bombing of an IDF patrol at the Syrian border was a kidnap attack, but the terrorist organization frequently makes such claims after attacks. Israel has not responded to the report. However, Israeli media reported that soldiers were trying to approach and arrest a suspicious […]
The “border with Syria has lately been full of jihad and Hezbollah terrorists, placing us with a new challenge, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Likud party caucus Tuesday. Speaking shortly after a bomb, apparently planted by Hezbollah, exploded at an Israeli patrol and wounded three soldiers, he added, “We have succeeded to maintain quiet […]
Unfortunately, it was only as matter of time until Syrians wounded Israeli soldiers.
By JTA
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said Jewish diplomat Daniel Rubinstein would replace Robert Ford as the diplomat guiding the U.S. response to the crisis in the country. “It’s more than fair to say that he is among our government’s foremost experts on the Middle East and has served with distinction in some […]
Syrian rebels have killed approximately 500 Hezbollah soldiers, including at least 15 in the past 10 days, according to sources quoted by the Beirut Daily Star. Social media and websites have depicted photos of the dead Hezbollah members, complete with praise for their “martyrdom” for carrying out their “jihadist duty.” Videos have been posted that […]
Glick strips the bark from the threat of a One State Solution and reveals a worthy option: the Israeli Solution
The IDF put soldiers along the Lebanese border on high alert Wednesday following the acknowledged bombing of Hezbollah terrorists and a weapons convoy near the Syrian-Lebanese border earlier this week. Farmers have been told to stay away from their land that in some cases is adjacent to the border. Hezbollah admitted on Wednesday that the […]
Israeli Air Force war planes launched two bombing raids on Hezbollah posts in near the Syrian border eastern Lebanon Monday, the Beirut Daily Star reported. Quoting “security sources,” the newspaper said that four missiles were dropped in a mountainous area where Hezbollah recruits and trains its soldiers and near a known route for smuggling arms […]
Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir, the new commander of the Free Syrian Army, secretly trained in Israel last year after being admitted into to the country for medical treatment, according to the Arabic language Al-Ahd website. He was transferred to a hospital in Israel after he was wounded in a military operation. Rumors spread that he died and […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Syrian explosion destroys family – Israeli medics saves remaining son.
Two mortar shells exploded in open areas in the central Golan Heights Tuesday afternoon, shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his entourage left the area following a visit. No one was injured, and no damage was reported. It is not known if Syrian soldiers or rebels were the source of the mortar fire and […]
The Golan Heights “divides the good from the bad,” meaning Iran, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday during a visit to the region along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz. "On the day when talks between the major powers and Iran are being opened in Vienna, it is […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) heroic warriors took a Syrian girl named Fatoum Al-Jassem to the Al-Reqqa religious court, where the judge ruled that membership in Facebook is tantamount to adultery and sentenced her to death by stoning, Al-Rai Al-Youm reported. Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-'Irāq wa-sh-Shām, abbreviated ISIS, is an armed […]
Syrian rebels seized part of a major government prison near Aleppo after it staged a car bomb attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The official media of the Assad regime said it repelled the attack by “armed terrorists” and that a “large number of their members [were] dead and wounded,” but other […]
President Barack Obama will fly to Saudi Arabia next month in an effort to repair a deteriorating relationship following his failure to significantly improve ties in his 2011 trip to Riyadh and in the wake of differences over relations with Egypt, Iran and Syria. Obama will visit the Vatican on the same junket, as well […]
Kerry’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Psaki, denied that her boss proposes U.S. military involvement.
The Al Qaeda terrorist network reportedly is breaking ties with the Islamic State of Iraq and greater Syria (ISIS) Syria that has been balking at orders from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The terrorist group also is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An unconfirmed website message from Al Qaeda […]
Al Qaeda terrorists already have set up three bases in Turkey after having established a presence in Syria, IDF Intelligence Chief Maj.- Gen. Aviv Kochavi told a national security conference in Tel Aviv. "Syria is projecting its conflict to the whole region. Those blotches (on the map) in Turkey are no mistake by the graphic […]
The head of IDF Intelligence said on Wednesday that enemy countries have 170,000 missiles ready to be fired on Israel, a threat that is worse than the Iranian nuclear program. The numbers have been known before the sum total was announced by Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi. It has been reported dozens of times […]
Israeli spokesman said “no comment” on reports from Lebanon that the Israeli Air Force bombed Syrian missiles destined for Hezbollah. Explosions were reported in the Syrian port city of Latakia, which previously has been targeted and presumably by Israel to prevent “game-changing” weapons from being smuggled into Lebaon for Hezbollah. Several Lebanese new sources as […]
Recently published photographs of people allegedly tortured by the regime of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad brought out the Nazi comparisons Wednesday by Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Jarba. Speaking to the Geneva II talks, he said, "The pictures of torture are unprecedented except in the Nazi camps during the Second World War.” The photos were provided […]
Hezbollah is on the course of self-destruction but is bringing Lebanon down with it.
Iran proves once again it cannot be trusted, but is anyone listening?
The United States has backed an ultimatum by Syrian opposition forces to rescind an invitation to Iran to joint the Geneva II peace talks scheduled for Wednesday unless Tehran publicly accepts that the conference will establish a political process to end the rule of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad. The peace talks appeared to be over before […]
A 19 year old resident of Migdal Shams is in light to medium condition after being shot at near the Syrian border with Israel. The man was taken to Ziv hospital in Tzfat with a bullet wound in his leg. The hospital said the bullet was shot was a long distance. The IDF said it […]
The Al Qaeda-linked ISIL terrorist organization attacked a rebel-held city in northern Syria on Wednesday and killed at least 26 people in a car bomb explosion. Fighting between the rebels and ISIL has developed into a second civil war with the broader civil war between Syrian President Bassar al-Assad and opposition forces. ISIL denied claims […]
On Monday evening the IDF shot at two suspicious people on the Syrian border. It appears the two were trying to collect and steal landmines placed along the Israel-Syrian border. It is believed they were hit by the IDF fire.
At least 13 Iraqi soldiers and 18 Syrians, including woman and children, were killed Thursday in another round of the seemingly endless fighting in both countries. Iraq was supposed to be safe from democracy after the American invasion, but it has been neither safe nor democratic since then. Bombings by anti-government and Al Qaeda terrorists […]
At least 25 people, including women and children, were killed in Aleppo Tuesday when Syrian forces attacked a bus with a rocket, according to the opposition Aleppo Medical Center, It said the attack from a nearby Syrian military base burned everyone inside the bus beyond recognition and that it was impossible to know the actual […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the "steadfastness” of so-called “Palestinian refugees” in Syria in a televised speech but forget to mention his concern for them did not extend to helping those who are dying of starvation. “Marking the 49th anniversary of the Palestinian Revolution … Abbas [said], “We negotiate to reach a fair solution […]
600 Wounded Syrians have been treated in Israeli hospitals, but who's been paying for it?
The Lebanese army fired anti-aircraft guns on two Syrian warplanes that dropped four air-to-ground rockets on an eastern border town Monday, the Beirut Daily Star reported. There were no reports of casualties or direct hits on Syrian planes. The newspaper quoted a military source as saying that the army received orders “to fire on any warplane […]
Pope Francis’ first Christmas message was full of hope for peace in war-torn Syria and South Sudan, the “often and overlooked” war-torn Central African Republic and - as if the chaos and mutual barbarity are comparable – for a “favorable” outcome” in talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He made no mention of what […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes Western politicians have started to realize that overthrowing Assad’s government might lead to a worsening of the Syrian crisis, the official Russain News agency RT reports. “The attitudes are changing in Western countries, they are becoming more realistic in their approach towards settling the Syrian crisis,” said Lavrov. “The […]
More than 300 Syrians, including at least 87 children and 30 women, have been killed in the week-long “barrel-bombing” offensive by the regime on Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, opposition sources reported. The civil war’s violence, which consistently has been reported as the worst possible, continues to defy description for its barbarity on both sides. A […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Thousands of students from Arab countries have signed up.
The number of refugees from Syria next year will reach 4 million, more than one-sixth of the country’s population of 23 million, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA predicted. An additional 9.3 million will be in need of assistance inside the country, devastated by the civil war that erupted from the Arab Spring protests three […]
Three seriously wounded Syrians have been brought to Nahariya hospital in northern Israel for treatment. The three were injured in the chest and body in the country's civil war. Nahariya hospital has treated 169 wounded Syrians, of which 21 are still in the hospital.
The death toll in the bombing of Aleppo by Syrian government planes Sunday has risen to more than 100, including 16 children, according to opposition sources. The “barrel bomb” attack hit nine different parts of the city and was the worst bombing of the commercial hub in six months, the London Telegraph reported. The bombs […]
Syrian President Bassar al-Assad’s Air Force dropped “barrel bombs” of explosives on Aleppo Sunday, killing 14 children and eight others, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A school was hit by the bombs, the Observatory said, and another activist group reported that there were several helicopter attacks. The city, Syria’s second largest, […]
Gaza-based terrorists are training to fight alongside Islamists against the Assad regime, the BBC reported Sunday, quoting recent Internet videos showing fighters training to storm buildings with Islamic music in the background. One terrorist said on a video that he is going to fight a “holy war” in Syria because “there is no fighting with […]
Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour expressed fear on Wednesday over the “disastrous” conditions of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon amid the winter storm hitting the country, al-Akhbar reported. “We are incapable, the ministry is working through international associations to aid the refugees,” Abou Faour said in an interview, adding that “frosting will take […]
Deadly clashes between pro and anti-Assad forces in Tripoli forced Lebanon on Monday to place Tripoli under army control for six months, the first time the military has taken command over a city since the 15-year civil war that official ended in 1990. At least 12 people were killed and 100 wounded in the northern […]
A few incidents of gunfire exchange were reported Monday morning on Israel's northern border with Syria. In one incident an IDF patrol was fired on by shooters from the Syrian side of the border. The patrol identified the source and returned fire. At least one attacker in Syria was wounded. It is unclear if the […]
A mortar shell, apparently from fighting in Syria, hit near the village of Majdal Shams in the northern Golan Heights. It is believed that the mortar was launched from the Syrian side of the Hermon mountain. No injuries or damage were reported from the hit.
By JoeSettler
Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?
The Home Front Command will carry out what it called a routine drill Tuesday through Thursday in the Western Galilee to maintain preparedness for rocket attacks from Hezbollah or Syria. The exercise will include the distribution of gas masks. A siren will be activated in all parts of the Western Galilee at 10:15 a.m. Israeli […]
Saudi Arabia is loudly silent on the deal with Iran, but its royal billionaire prince who owns part of Twitter and Apple says “we” are concerned. And guess who is “We”? Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and loyalists to Syrian President Bassar al-Assad has claimed at least 160 lives in the suburbs of Damascus the past two days as the regimes continues to use starvation as a weapon. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said deadly clashes broke out on Friday in Ghouta, east of […]
More than 11,000 children have been killed in the Syrian civil war, any of them starved to death and shot and tortured, according to a new report by the Oxford research Group. Male victims outnumber female victims by two-to-one, and most of the boys have been between 13 and 17 years of age. “The data […]
Syrian rebels dealt a deadly and psychological to the Assad regime Sunday by apparently breaching security at a government building and setting off a blast that killed four generals and 27 soldiers, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Unconfirmed sources said the death was 75. The attack was carried out in the […]
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told supporters in Beirut’s suburbs Thursday, “We won’t bargain our presence in Lebanon, Syria and the axis of resistance for some ministerial portfolios” to form a new Lebanese government. He said he is defending Syrian President Bassar al-Assad because he backs the “resistance” against Israel. Nasrallah appeared in public, a rare […]
Four Syrian civilians who were seriously injured in the Syrian civil war were brought to Israel on Friday night and treated at Ziv hospital in Tzfat.
By Alex Traiman
The leaking of information on an Israeli air strike in Syria and a growing divergence in approach to Iran sanctions have accentuated the Obama administration’s differences with the Israeli government.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
KFC had to leave the country because it could no longer acquire the necessary amount of chickens for its fast food meals.
By JTA
A Syrian woman who lives in the crossfire of the civil war gave birth to a baby boy in an Israeli hospital in Safed. While in labor on Sunday, the woman made her way to the Israel border from her Quneitra region and asked the Israeli soldiers there for assistance. There are no midwives in […]
Assad is looking over both shoulders. Israel is suspected of destroying one of his air bases on the western coast, while Turkey is aiding and abetting Al Qaeda terrorists to wage jihad on behalf rebels.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a massive blast has destroyed a Syrian air defense base near the coastal city of Latakia. Syrian and Lebanese sources speculate that it was caused by an Israeli rocket strike from a naval vessel in the Mediterranean. The Syrian Observatory and Twitter users quoted eyewitnesses who said […]
Iran’s government-controlled Fars News Agency reported on Sunday that Syrian forces seized “Israeli-made missiles, machine guns, rifles and communication devices” in clashes with rebels in the Daraa region. Saudi Arabia has been known to be a major supplier of weapons to opposition forces, so if the report has any validity, it raises the fanciful scenario […]
Syrian opposition forces again prove Hezbollah is not invincible. They posted a video showing a direct hit near Damascus on a multi-story Hezbollah building, which collapsed like dominoes.
Shimon Peres is wonderful man. The older he gets, the more he is optimistic – and the more he is detached from reality. He foresees an “Iranian Spring.” Doesn’t he know what happened in Libya and Egypt?
October 9, 2026 
