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UPDATE - Hezbollah camps targeted by Israeli missile attack on Syria

Israeli strikes early Monday hit a military outpost and weapons depot operated by Hizbullah near the Syrian capital Damascus, a war monitor reported Monday. "Sites operated by the Lebanese Hizbullah group... in the east Qalamoun region, northeast of Damascus, were hit by Israeli strikes at dawn," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The […]

Israel declares Hezbollah has growing aerial surveillance capabilities

Israeli security sources claimed Friday that drones captured after being flown across the frontier from neighboring Lebanon have provided insight into the growing aerial surveillance capabilities of Hizbullah. Drones have become a regular feature of heavily guarded border between Lebanon and Israel Images extracted from one drone downed in August -- shown to AFP -- […]

Israeli tanks fire on suspicious individuals across Syrian border

Israeli tanks fired on suspects along the Syrian border in the Golan Heights after they were detected near Israeli forces, the Israeli military said. "A short time ago during army activity in the Golan Heights, soldiers identified suspects close to a military position and fired in their direction from tanks," the army said in a […]

Russian jets pound Idlib again

Russian jets bombed areas near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday, witnesses and rebel sources said, marking a new year flare-up for the last opposition-held bastion. War planes flying at high altitude, which tracking centres said were Russian Sukhoi jets, dropped bombs on several towns and a main water pumping station serving the […]

Israel to expand Golan settlements by double

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel's hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than five decades ago. Speaking at a special Cabinet session being held in the Golan […]

Grateful Syrians headed to Italy from Cyprus thanks to Pope

Syrian national Issa Shamma expressed gratitude and hope as he is getting ready to leave Cyprus to start a new life in Italy barely a week before Christmas. Pope Francis who visited Cyprus earlier this month, would take 50 migrants from Cyprus to Italy, including Muslims, in a gesture of "solidarity," Cypriot authorities said. A […]

British shoot down drone over Syria

A British warplane that is part of a U.S.-led coalition shot down a drone this week near a base where U.S. troops are stationed in southern Syria, officials said on Thursday. The base, known as Tanf, is located in a strategic area near Syria's Tanf border crossing with Iraq and Jordan and houses a small […]

Israeli missile attack leaves one Syrian dead

A Syrian soldier was killed Thursday in an Israeli missile raid from the occupied Golan Heights into southern Syria, state media reported. "At around 12:50 am, the Israeli enemy carried out an air raid with several missiles in the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan and targeting several positions in the south," according to a […]

Lebanon sides with Syria on Latakia attack

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned an Israeli strike on Syria’s Latakia port that reportedly destroyed an Iranian weapons shipment. In a statement, the Ministry said “Lebanon’s government and people will always stand by the Syrian Arab Republic in what preserves its security, stability and the safety of its citizens.” Israel rarely comments on […]

Latakia port on fire after Israeli air attack

Fires caused by an Israeli “aggression” at Syria’s Latakia port on Tuesday had been extinguished, leaving material damage, but the status of any casualties was unclear, Syria’s state media reported. Five explosions rocked the port city after an Israeli “aggression” hit the port’s container yard, sending fire trucks racing to the site, Syrian state TV […]

Syrian FM headed to Tehran

Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad is due in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said. Source: English Al-Arabiya

UPDATE - Syrian oil workers killed in attack

At least 10 oil field workers were killed Thursday in an attack on their bus in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, state media reported. “Ten workers at the Al-Kharata oil field were martyred and another was wounded in a terrorist attack on a bus transporting them back from work,” the official SANA news agency said, […]

BREAKING NEWS - Russia says Syria successfully intercepted Israeli missiles over Homs

Israeli fighters F-16 fired 12 missiles at Syria last night, the Syrian military destroyed 10 of them with Russian-made air defense systems Buk-M2E and Pantsir-S, Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, said."From 2:28 to 2:38 a.m., six Israeli F-16 tactical fighters from Lebanese airspace […]

BREAKING NEWS - New Israeli strike on Syria leaves 2 dead

An Israeli 'air aggression' on Syria's central region killed two civilians and injured seven others, official media said on Wednesday. State media said Syrian air defences intercepted the attack above the city of Homs. "An Israeli air aggression targeted parts of the central region, and the air defences are responding," it said. Two civilians were […]

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli missiles fired at Damascus from Golan Heights

Israel launched two missiles targeting an empty building in southern Damascus from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syrian state TV said early on Wednesday. It said one of the missiles was shot down and there were no losses. There was no immediate confirmation from Israel on the strike. Source: Reuters

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