Iran’s military chief of staff said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks on Syria are “not acceptable,” in a visit to Damascus. General Mohammad Bagheri, who was in Damascus to discuss further military cooperation with the Assad regime, said “It is not acceptable for the Zionist regime to violate Syria any...

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Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets destroyed an anti-aircraft missile battery in Syria following an attack on Israeli planes carrying out reconnaissance over Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Earlier, the SA-5 anti-aircraft battery, located about 30 miles east of Damascus, fired at Israeli planes conducting “routine” reconnaissance over Lebanon. Israel reported...

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A Hezbollah drone was shot down by an Israeli Air Force Patriot missile Tuesday after it entered the demilitarized zone on the Israel-Syria border. The drone, believed to be used for intelligence gathering, was tracked by the IDF after it took off from an airfield in Damascus and flew to...

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The United States Congress voted on Wednesday to adopt two measures that would block the sale of aircraft to Iran. The measures were amendments to the 2018 spending authorization bill. One of the amendments would prohibit spending the money necessary to authorize the sales, and the other would block Office...

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The Al-Akbar news agency has reported that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the Syrian government has won the war in Syria. Speaking at a religious event, Nasrallah said that opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had failed and that now “the path of the other project has failed and...

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Conan O’Brien, the comedian and popular late night television host, said on his recent trip to Israel that the doctors at a northern Israeli hospital who treat Syrian patients deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. O’Brien was in Israel to produce a segment for an ongoing series called Conan Without Borders. For...

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The attack on a Syrian military facility early Thursday morning, attributed to Israel, is a sign that Israel will enforce its major “red lines” with Syria to defend itself, a former Israeli national security adviser said Thursday. In a press briefing hosted by The Israel Project, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaacov...

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The regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has used chemical weapons on more than two dozen occasions since the outbreak of the civil war six years ago, including in April’s deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun, a UN war crimes investigation revealed on Wednesday. Reuters reported that the UN investigators interviewed 43...

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American television host, comedian, and producer Conan O’Brien told the medical team at Safed’s Ziv Medical Center that they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for their free humanitarian treatment of Syrian men, women, and children spirited across the border to Israel after being wounded in Syria’s ongoing civil war. “I...

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The former Obama administration ambassador to Syria said this week that Iran’s presence in Syria is “the new reality that we have to accept, and there isn’t much we can do about it,” and that this reality “has made the situation worse for Israel.” Iran’s growing hegemony in the Middle East, marked...

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