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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The airstrikes were the first in Syria attributed to Israel since the targeting on May 1 of Aleppo International Airport.
There has been a significant increase in the scope of Israeli and American reconnaissance flights, aimed at determining the locations of the Bavar-373 Air Defense Systems.
Syrians claim surface-to-surface missiles were launched at Syrian targets from the Golan Heights.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
For Iran, control of the Albukamal border crossing with Iraq and control of Damascus airport and its environs are necessary to create a land bridge between Iran and Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The strikes targeted Iranian militia warehouses at a Syrian military facility, says U.K.-based war monitor.
Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details of Solemani's location.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The upgraded Albukamal crossing is expected to serve as an Iranian land bridge through Iraq to Syria and from there to Lebanon, posing a new threat to Israel’s security.
The quality of the targets Israel destroyed in its last attack in Syrian territory earlier this week, stunned the Iranian military leadership, which realized the depth of Israeli penetration into the heart of the Iranian military deployment in Syria, according to the news and analysis site Nziv.net. Experts say this was the most massive Israeli […]
The rockets were aimed at the Hermon Mountain.
Russia also played a key role.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah has been recruiting hundreds of villagers villagers into a terror network equipped with weapons, anti-tank rockets and explosive.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Still, Russia (halfheartedly) warned Israel to stop its “arbitrary” airstrikes in Syria, saying that they should be “ruled out.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
IDF forces returned fire towards the source of the gunfire in Syria.
By JNi.Media
Im Tirtzu activists recorded Israeli Arabs shouting, "With spirit and blood we'll redeem you, Palestine," "Rest in peace, martyr, we continue in your path," "Israel is a terrorist state," and "An Arab Palestine from the sea to the River Jordan."
By JNi.Media
"They will serve as a security guarantee for civilians of the Quneitra district."
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.
Elaph reports that Israel and Iran held secret negotiations in Jordan.
By JNi.Media
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have established a new militia named Brigade 313 in Southern Syria.
The attack was a response to anti-aircraft fire aimed at IAF planes on a routine photographic mission flight over Lebanon.
By JNi.Media
Assad had a special message for his neighbor to the north Erdogan, who, he said, "is playing the role of political beggar after his support for terrorists was exposed."
By JNi.Media
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said after the vote that his country condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of chemical weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction.
By JNi.Media
Minister Israel Katz's proposal to transfer casualties from Idlib to hospitals in is opposed by the defense establishment, because it would requires cooperation with Turkey.
By JNi.Media
King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Friday called President Donald Trump to congratulate him on his 'courageous decision which came in the interest of the region and the world.'
The Syrian Rebels have taken over the eastern side of Damascus and attacked the Russian Embassy.
By JoeSettler
Iran is feeling expansive, and Russia seems quite fine with Israel's actions to keep Iran in check.
By JNi.Media
SANA suggested the attack used the new F-35 attack planes Israel has just received from the US.
By JNi.Media
He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.'
By JNi.Media
According to Syrian media, explosions and high pillars of fire and smoke inside the military Mezzeh airport near the capital were the result of a missile of the Zionist military.
By JoeSettler
John Kerry's rant at the Saban Forum was fascinating in that it illuminated everything that is wrong with the supporters of the two-state solution peace process.
By JNi.Media
So far there has been no report of the Syrian army firing at the two IAF attacks.
Could our man in Damascus be coming back home to Israel?
By JNi.Media
The timing of the revelation did not escape PA Arab representatives, who have been flooding Israeli media Thursday morning with profuse denials of the charges.
By JNi.Media
Kaine would be a bonanza to leftwing Israeli Jews, very much like the folks who are currently in the White House.
By JNi.Media
The US is now "playing a critical role in assisting and facilitating the ways through which Hezbollah receives this significant aid from the Iranian government."
By JNi.Media
"It's very sad that the prime minister and the media follow misinformation."
By Shalom Bear
Mustafa Badr A-Din (Badreddine), the head of Hezbollah's military operations was reportedly killed by an Israeli air strike in Syria.
The three defendants are from the village of Jadeidi-Makr in the Galilee.
Reports that Israel bombarded a Syrian regime stronghold south of Damascus on Wed., Feb. 17.
The surprise visit is the first time Assad has left Syria since the Arab Spring of 2011 that evolved into civil war.
Egypt attacks jihadists with F-16 warplanes. Israel closes borders to Gaza and Egypt.
By Shalom Bear
Senior Hezbollah members are upset that Nasrallah is promoting members of the Mughniyah family at their expense.
By Shalom Bear
UN soldiers stationed in Katzrin don't care what laws they break or who they inconvenience.
When my home village of Talkalakh, Syria was occupied by the regime in the summer of 2013, there was no media attention on the event. Today, my village has been depopulated of 90% of its residents, many of its houses looted by Assad’s shabiha, down to the copper wiring.
The Syrians took most of Deir Salman.
By Shalom Bear
The area, along the Syrian-Lebanon border is strategically critical. It controls the Lebanon-Damascus supply pipelines and is how Hezbollah supports Bashar Assad's regime in Damascus.
By Shalom Bear
PLO refuses "to be drawn into any armed campaign" (that's a new one). Leftwing groups campaigning to flood Israel with Yarmouk "Palestinian refugees" for "humanitarian" reasons.
ISIS has taken control of almost the entire Yarmouk camp near Damascus.
By Rachel Levy
While Pres. Obama nurses a grudge and looks for new ways to pick a fight with Israel, a cataclysm is building in the Middle East.
By J. E. Dyer
Remnants of Assad’s nuclear program are alive and well, under the control of Hezbollah and Iran
By JTA
It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
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.
If chemical weapons had not been used, Damascus would have been overcome by the rebels.
Is Assad’s mind so twisted that he used chemical weapons again? Or are the rebels equally twisted enough to gas Assad’s soldiers and then accuse the regime. And does it matter anymore?
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
His family loves art and refined European tastes. This highly cultured man is responsible for producing poison gas. It reads like something out of Nazi Germany but it is not. Meet Syria's Amr Najib Armanazi.
Syrian rebels set off a car bomb and killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens of others in a predominantly Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus Tuesday night. Rebels have suspected Syrian Druze and Christians, who have to portray themselves as neutral in the civil war, of secretly supporting the Assad regime. Official state […]
Nazi hunters, including Israel, have been looking for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for years. The CIA may have employed him. At the age of 100, he still may alive and hiding in Syria.
Egyptian’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi announced Saturday he will cut diplomatic ties with the regime of Bashar Assad and close Cairo’s embassy in Damascus. He also demanded that Hezbollah leave Syria adding, “There is no business or place for Hezbollah in Syria.” Morsi spoke at a rally organized by hardline Islamists, whose clerics told […]
A double suicide bombing in the center of Damascus morning killed at least two people and injured two dozen others, according to a regime-operated television station. The reported attacks coincide with what appears to be the upper hand that Hezbollah has given forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. They are prep raring to recapture […]
We see more and more violent acts ‘explained’ in terms of foreign policy.
The rebels took Alepo in July, 2012, and since then this major industrial center had been bombarded regularly by Army forces.
When the going gets tough, Arab leaders routinely huff and puff at Israel. On cue, Assad threatens to open military front against Israel.
Bombing Syria’s chemical weapons would cause a humanitarian disaster. No one wants to hit Assad and end up with Al Qaeda. There’s no diplomatic way out without Russia, an expert tells the Jewish Press.
One basic difference between Israel and Arab nations: The Jews warn and warn and warn and finally strike when there is not choice. Arabs attack and attack until there is not choice but to warn.
Syrian President Bashar Assad visited a Damascus power station on May Day Wednesday in a rare public appearance, according to the regime’s television station. The television station showed Assad speaking to workers and shaking their hands, He has tried to show Syrians that all is “business as usual” despite the bloody civil war and charges […]
Rebels, termed “terrorists” by the Assad regime, killed six people in a car bomb explosion in Damascus that failed to claim the life of its main target, Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi. Official state media broadcast the report of the car bomb, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed it. The apparent suicide attack was […]
Blood poured like water in Syria on Sunday. Rebels claimed nearly 100 fighters were massacred. Assad’s regime in effect confirmed the report and said it “inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists.”
One of the big winners in the war in Syria could be Hamas, at the expense of Abbas. Hamas not only is fighting with rebels but also is reportedly building smuggling tunnels for an attack on Damascus.
A European Union policy officer whose group was giving humanitarian aid to victims of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s suppression of rebels was killed by an army missile near Damascus on Tuesday. EU policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement, "I have learned today with great sadness of the tragic death on 12 March of […]
Israeli and Saudi-backed intelligence agencies are behind Syrian rebel suicide bombings, according to a Syrian website that is loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. The accusations are a new twist on Syrian government accusations that Israel and the United States are behind the suicide bombings. Quoting “informed” sources in the Syrian opposition, Dam Press said […]
Relations between Russia and Turkey have been strained by the forced landing of a Syrian passenger plane which Turkey said it need to inspect for smuggled military equipment.
Syria's defense minister and several other government officials were killed or hurt by a suicide bomber in Damascus Wednesday, a day after Israel's Director of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi had said that President Bashar al-Assad's days were numbered. Also killed in Wednesday's blast was Assad's brother-in-law, who was Syria's deputy defense minister. The bomber, who struck during a meeting of government and security heads, reportedly was a bodyguard.
A Hamas leader was assassinated in Damascus on Wednesday night, a member of the party's politburo announced, according to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency.. Izzat al-Rishq wrote on his Facebook page that Kamal Ghanaja, also known as Nizar Abu Mujahed, was killed in his home in the Syrian capital. Hamas is investigating the crime, al-Rishq […]
Hamas official Izzat Al-Rishiq announced on his Facebook page on Wednesday announced that one of its senior members, Kamal Hussein Ranaja, was assassinated at his home outside Damascus. The perpetrators? Israel’s Mossad.
A heavy firefight has broken out in a main district of the Syrian capital Damascus, between Free Syrian Army rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. On Monday the sound of heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades echoed throughout the night from the most heavily guarded neighborhood of the capital, which is home to a number of security facilities.
Israeli military magazine Israel Defense has reported that Russian military experts recently upgraded Syria’s long-range radar capabilities to provide Iran with a more cohesive early-detection system in the event of a strike on its nuclear facilities. The report said that the experts brought new equipment and software modifications with them, and focused on a radar facility "south of […]
Almost 450 years ago, in the year 1569, a new Sultan came to power in Damascus. Upon assuming his throne, one of his first acts was to order the destruction of all the Jewish synagogues in the city. The Jews had begun to fear for their lives when on the eve of Purim, a miracle occurred. From a vicious Jew-hater, the Sultan became their friend and during his reign the Jews lived in peace.
What will Syria look like the day after Bashar al-Assad's downfall?
Embassy also shuts down its visa section.
By Sam Ser
Witnesses said the Free Syrian Army held territory and set up roadblocks in Douma, a center of dissent, for up to several hours before retreating to their hideouts.
By Sam Ser
Longtime Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who has ruled the terrorist group’s political structure from Damascus since 1996, has told Palestinian media he would soon step down.
July 3, 2026 
