According to Hizbullah's al-Manar TV, Israeli warplanes fired at a target in southern Lebanon on Monday. “The enemy detonated an explosive device remotely against a telecommunication line in Zrariyeh” village, the Hizbullah television station reported. The IAF aircraft reportedly struck a site used by the Hizbullah near the town of Zira in southern
The Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, denounced on Sunday the sentence handed down to the group’s former senior commander, Ibrahim Hamad. Earlier on Sunday, an Israeli military court sentenced Hamad to 54 life terms in prison. Hamad was the Judea and Samaria head of Hamas’ terrorist operations from 2001 to 2006, and coordinated
IAF aircraft attacked a terrorist cell in northern Gaza on Monday morning, as it was preparing to launch rockets at southern Israel. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that the aircraft scored a direct hit. “The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers and will
The Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Unit, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, threatened Israel on Sunday, saying it will be destroyed if it “ventures an attack” on Iran. His remarks were quoted by the Iranian IRNA news agency. Speaking at a press conference in Tehran, Hajizadeh said that Iran was in
The number of IDF lookouts on the border with Egypt has been doubled in recent months, according to outgoing Field Intelligence Corps, Brig. Gen. Eli Pollack. "The resources available to us, such as radar and UAVs, have been multiplied several times over," said Brig. Gen. Pollack. "There is a lot of activity on the
Egypt’s long list of unending crises since the Jan. 25 revolution appears to be unending as evidenced by the latest crisis between the upper house of parliament, known as the Shura Council, and the country’s journalists. It began when the Islamist-dominated parliament decided to set certain regulations for choosing the editors-in-chief of state-run newspapers.
Renewed tribal clashes in the Libyan city of Kufra have claimed at least 47 lives and left more than 100 others wounded in three days, local leaders and a medic told AFP on Saturday. “Thirty-two have been killed this week in the two Toubou residential areas,” a medic treating Toubou casualties in Kufra told
Yitzchak Shamir, Israel's seventh Prime Minister, has passed away at the age of 96. Born in 1915 in Belarus, Shamir passed away on Shabbat. His funeral is expected to take place on Monday. Shamir was Prime Minister of Israel twice, in 1983-84 and 1986-92. He presided as head of the nation over numerous important
About 1,000 people were detained and hundreds injured -- many by tear gas -- during anti-regime protests on Friday in Sudan, an activist group said on Saturday’s anniversary of President Omar al-Bashir’s coup. The information minister called the protesters “rioters” who threaten the country’s stability. “Some were arrested and released,” said an official
Switzerland has refused to take back a Jordanian refugee who had been given asylum after he was convicted of links to Islamist rebels in Somalia, officials announced on Saturday. “The Jordanian citizen ... arrested in Kenya, may not enter Swiss territory until further notice,” said the Federal Justice Ministry in Bern in a statement.
