A mortar shell fired from Syria exploded in the Israeli Golan Heights on Tuesday, hitting an open field without causing any casualties or damage, an IDF spokeswoman said. It was the third incident of fire from the civil war in neighboring Syria straying across the ceasefire line in 24 hours and came as tensions
As part of a cabinet reshuffle of nine ministerial changes, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood will be appointed planning minister, state media reported on Tuesday. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil announced nine changes to his cabinet including the appointment of Amr Darrag, a senior official in the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, as
Saudi Arabia on Monday called for U.N. action to end Israeli strikes on Syria, describing the raids as a “dangerous violation” of the sovereignty of an Arab state, the official SPA news agency reported. Israeli raids on Syrian targets near Damascus at the weekend killed at least 42 soldiers, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Life in the Talmonim bloc, in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem, is becoming a nightmare, due to ongoing Palestinian Authority Arab terrorist attacks, a resident of the region told Arutz Sheva. Many of the attacks were ignored completely by the media, he said. The rise in terrorism began months ago, with the Pillar of
Traumatized Christians in a Lahore slum where angry Muslims torched more than 100 homes say Pakistan’s two largest parties offer the only hope of protection at this week’s general election. The Pakistan Muslim League-N of Nawaz Sharif, a man accused of being soft on the Taliban but tipped to win Saturday’s polls, and the
Syria responded angrily to the overnight air strikes on military targets that it accused Israel of carrying out, warning that the attack "opens the door to all possibilities." "We will not accept to be humiliated," Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi said at an afternoon press conference, according to ABC News. "We are all
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
