JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces would press ahead with Syria operations despite their loss of an advanced warplane to enemy fire for the first time in 36 years. Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed the F-16 as it returned from a ...
If you were an Israeli living in Northern Israel, you were awakened yesterday morning by sirens and sounds of explosions. If you were in the rest of the country, you learned of attacks as you woke up, to news reports and notifications on your phones of missile warning in the North. This morning ...
Moscow is seriously concerned by the latest developments in Syria and calls on sides to exercise restraint and avoid an escalation of the situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Israel launched heavy air strikes in Syria on Saturday, saying it hit air defenses and Iranian ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his country had dealt "severe blows" to Iranian and Syrian forces inside Syria and would continue to combat any further aggression. "We made clear to everyone that our rules of engagement will not change in any way," Netanyahu said at ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will defend itself "against any attack" after it carried out what have been called its largest strikes against sites in Syria in decades. ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — In its most serious engagement in neighboring Syria since fighting there began in 2011, Israel shot down an infiltrating Iranian drone Saturday and struck Iranian targets deep in Syria before one of its own jets was downed. The sudden escalation offers what could be a harbinger ...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will protect itself from “any threat or any attempt to harm its sovereignty” after its military downed an Iranian drone that infiltrated the region./ “Israel is seeking for peace, but we will continue to defend ourselves against any attack ...
An Israeli jet was shot down during an attack on Iranian targets in Syria yesterday, in the most serious confrontation between the foes since the start of the civil war. Israel said it sent an F-16 jet to disable an Iranian drone which entered into Israeli territory from Syria earlier on ...
Israel struck a dozen Syrian and Iranian targets inside Syria on Saturday after an Israeli fighter jet crashed under fire from Syrian air defences, the military said. The confrontation was the most serious between arch foes Israel and Iran since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011. ...
A picture taken in the northern Israeli Kibbutz of Harduf on Feb. 10, 2018, shows the remains of an Israel F-16 that crashed./ (JERUSALEM) — The Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone it said infiltrated the country early Saturday before launching a “large-scale attack” on at least a dozen ...
Israel said it had carried out a “large scale attack” against the Syrian Aerial Defense System and Iranian targets in Syria, presumably in response to the downing of the F-16. The military later said that the jet had crashed after the formation it was flying in was targeted by Syrian ground ...
16 crashes as situation threatens to escalate/ The remains of an Israeli F-16 that crashed in northern Israel on Feb. 10./ Israel and Iran moved closer to confrontation in Syria as rising tensions erupted into the most serious standoff between the sides since the Syrian civil war began seven ...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Saturday in the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces based across the border. The F-16, one of at least eight Israeli ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday Israel sought peace but would continue to defend itself against Iran. Earlier in the day, anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria in the most ...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Saturday in the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces based across the border. The F-16, one of at least eight Israeli ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected as “ridiculous” reports that Israel had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria on Saturday, state TV reported. “Reports of downing an Iranian drone flying over Israel and also Iran’s involvement in attacking an Israeli jet are so ridiculous ... Iran ...
state TV/ ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran, Israel’s regional arch-enemy, rejected as “ridiculous” reports that Israel had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria on Saturday, state TV reported. Separately, a Revolutionary Guards’ official said he could not confirm the report because Israelis ...
The deputy head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps declined to comment on reports that Israel had intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria on Saturday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. “We cannot confirm this report on the drone because Israelis are liars ... if ...
Israel says it shot down an Iranian drone that was launched from Syria after it entered Israeli territory late Friday. In response, Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Israel aimed an attack on Iranian targets in Syria. Conricus said Iran was “responsible for this severe ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Syrian anti-aircraft fire shot down an Israeli jet on Saturday, the military said, after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria and struck an Iranian target there. Footage from northern Israel showed what appeared to be white aircraft debris scattered on ...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone that infiltrated the country early Saturday and struck Iranian targets in Syria that launched it, in what the military called a “severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty.” The military said its planes faced heavy ...
'We urge all parties involved to exercise restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an even greater complication of the situation'/ The Israeli military said two of its pilots have been injured after one of their F-16 jets crashed after coming under heavy fire/ struck 12 Syrian and ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel shot down an Iranian drone launched from Syria and in response also struck Iranian targets there on Saturday, the Israeli military said. “A combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian UAV that was launched from Syria and infiltrated Israel. The aircraft was ...
The Israeli army said Saturday morning that it intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria into Israeli territory. In response, the IDF attacked Iranian targets in Syria, Hareetz reported. Due to Syrian anti-aircraft fire, says the army, red alert sirens sounded in multiple areas of ...
The Israeli military on Saturday said it struck 12 targets in Syria, including four belonging to Iran/ Saturday’s confrontation comes amid Israeli warnings that it won’t let Syria become an Iranian base or a conduit for weapons bound for Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon./ Israel and ...
When US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives to the Middle East today, he will be mainly tasked with trying to stave off an all-out war brewing between Israel and Iran’s proxies in Syria and Lebanon. On Saturday, Syrian regime’s anti-aircraft guns downed an Israeli fighter jet that Tel Aviv ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country's military has dealt "severe blows" to Iran and Syria with a series of airstrikes./ Israeli fighter jets carry out raids against what Israel says were both Syrian and Iranian military targets/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ...
Israel struck a dozen Syrian and Iranian targets inside on Saturday in "large-scale" raids after an Israeli fighter jet crashed under fire from Syrian air defences in a severe increase in tensions, the military said. The confrontation was the most serious between arch foes Israel and Iran since ...
Air strikes are response to alleged drone incursion by Iran/ Israel has struck 12 Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria, including an aerial defence system, the country's military has claimed. The raids, which mark a dramatic escalation of tension in the region, came a few hours after Israel ...
Lebanese Army troops, seen here at the site of an Israeli strike in central Beirut, will have a key role in the ceasefire deal/ The Israeli cabinet will meet to discuss approval of a ceasefire to temporarily end hostilities with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The proposed truce would reportedly ...
Food prices soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 UN aid lorries this month/ Amid severe food shortages in Gaza, increasingly violent thefts by criminal gangs are now the main obstacle to distributing supplies in the south, aid workers and locals say. They allege that armed men operate ...
The Lebanese army would be expected to increase its presence in the ceasefire zone/ Israel and Lebanon appear to be close to a ceasefire deal, with the Israeli cabinet set to meet on Tuesday to discuss it, Israeli officials say. A 60-day truce is being proposed to end fighting between Israel and ...
Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch organisation in Abu Dhabi/ Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi and said they were working to determine a motive. The ...
The Sea Story reportedly departed a port near Marsa Alam on Saturday with 31 tourists and 14 others on board/ Egyptian authorities say rescuers have found survivors after a tourist boat with 45 people on board sank in the Red Sea. A distress signal was received at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) ...
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in September. Several people were injured and buildings damaged in northern and central Israel, some of them near ...
Israel says it is investigating a claim by Hamas that a female hostage has been killed during Israeli operations in northern Gaza. The woman's identity was not revealed by Hamas, and it was unclear how or when she is said to have died. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was currently unable ...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are investigating the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual national in the UAE. Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, has been missing since Thursday, the Israeli prime minister's office said. Israel's intelligence agency ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The eight-storey structure was completely destroyed without warning, as people were sleeping in the capital's densely-populated Basta district, the BBC's Hugo Bachega said. At least 11 people ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the ...