The Israel Air Force (IAF) struck several critical military facilities in Syria, killing dozens of elite troops stationed near the presidential palace, a high-ranking Syrian military official said in an interview with the New York Times. AFP quoted an Iranian general who said that the arms Israel targeted in Syria were not from Tehran.
The IDF has decided to close off the air space over northern Israel to civilian flights. According to the Channel 2 news website, Arkia flights between Haifa and Eilat have been cancelled until May 9. This is the second time in the last few months that the airspace over Haifa has been declared
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Feisal al-Mekdad on Sunday called Israel's bombing of a weapons transport in Syria a “declaration of war.” Speaking in an interview on CNN, al-Mekdad said that Israel was siding with “Islamist terrorists” to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, and that Syria would respond “at the time and in the manner that it
A vineyard owned by Jews in the town of Har Bracha in Samaria (Shomron) was torched Saturday afternoon by attackers from a nearby Arab town, the Tatzpit news agency reports. Residents of Har Bracha and the nearby community of Givat Ronen attempted to put out the flames. Several Israeli residents of the area
Israel bombed a weapons shipment headed for Hizbullah on Friday, an Israeli source confirmed Saturday. The source spoke after American media outlets reported the strike. Israel has not officially commented on the alleged strike. A diplomatic source in Lebanon told the AFP news agency that the operation destroyed surface-to-air missiles recently delivered by
General Haggai Mordechai, former commander of the IDF in Judea and Samaria, says the security situation in the region remains "fragile", even though he does not believe there will be a third intifada. "We are keeping our finger on the pulse," Mordechai said in an interview with AFP, as he stepped down from his
Five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the ISAF said in a statement. “Five International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today,” the coalition said in a statement issued in Kabul.
A British politician who said that Jews deliberately orchestrated the Holocaust has been suspended by her party. Anna-Marie Crampton allegedly wrote on her website, “Holocaust means a sacrifice by fire. Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers.” “The Second World Wide War was engineered by the Zionist Jews and
Despite occasional rocket attacks in recent weeks, signs point to Hamas seeking quiet in Gaza for the foreseeable future, according to Arutz Sheva analyst Kobi Finkler. The latest evidence is the quiet that followed Israel’s assassination of a senior Gaza terrorist. The IAF killed terrorist weapons expert Haitham Ziyad al-Mishal in a rocket strike.
Italian police arrested four men on Tuesday, who are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Italy, the US and Israel, reports Reuters News. One of the arrested men is believed to be a Tunisian former imam at a mosque in the city of Andria, in the southern Italian region of Puglia, where police said the
