Following retaliatory raids by the Israeli Air Force that struck government and Iranian sites inside Syria on Saturday, Syria’s assistant foreign minister threatened that Israel would face “more surprises” in any future attack against Syria, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Though, according to Israeli assessments the Israeli strikes knocked...

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In the wake of the incursion of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace Saturday that led to an Israeli military response against targets in Syria, the United States must “military deterrent toward Iranian expansionism” by targeting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) positions in Syria, an expert on Iran wrote...

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The incursion on an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace and the subsequent Israeli response on Saturday shows that Israel considers Iran’s efforts “to consolidate their strategic position” in Syria and Lebanon to threaten the Jewish state “unsustainable,” two experts on the Middle East in an op-ed published Sunday in The...

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The interception of an Iranian drone that targeted Israel suggests that the chances for a war between Israel and Iran-led forces, the first Israel-Shia war, have increased, General (ret.) Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence told a conference call on Saturday. The call was hosted by The...

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Even without President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, the accord has been “endangered” because of the “lack of bipartisan support,” a former White House official wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy, earlier this week. Michael Singh, a former member of the National Security...

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More than 200 civilians have been killed since Monday in Syrian regime airstrikes on parts of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, The Guardian reported. The neighborhood has been surrounded by Syrian forces for more than four years, with the siege intensifying in May when regime troops, backed by Iran and...

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The U.S.-led coalition in Syria conducted air and artillery strikes against pro-regime forces on Wednesday, killing more than 100 troops allied with the regime of Bashar al-Assad, after an “unprovoked attack” on the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Politico reported. Pro-regime troops marched on the compound of the SDF in Khusham,...

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A suspected Syrian chemical weapons research facility was hit overnight by airstrikes the BBC reported Wednesday. According to Syrian media, the country’s air defenses shot down some of the missiles, which were believed to have been fired by Israeli warplanes operating in Lebanese airspace. However, an arms depot at the...

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A German firm’s technology was purchased by Iran and later used in chemical attacks carried out against civilians by the Assad regime in Syria, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for Krempel, a company located...

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Syrian regime forces used chlorine gas in an attack on the rebel-held town of Saraqeb in northwestern Idlib on Sunday, injuring a volunteer search and rescue team in one of Syria’s “de-escalation zones.” Syria Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, said that nine people were treated for breathing...

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