Iran is conducting construction work on a crossing on the Syrian-Iraqi border to facilitate weapons smuggling from Tehran to its terror proxies across the Middle East, satellite images released by Fox News show. The images, taken by satellite company ImageSat International (ISI) last week, reveal new infrastructure 1.6 miles west...

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The IDF confirmed Monday that a Syrian anti-aircraft position has fired at one of its fighter jets during a routine mission within Israeli airspace. The strike occurred near Quneitra in southern Syria, close to the Israeli border on the Golan Heights. In response, the Israeli military bombed the launcher that...

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“Daddy, how do you know that Israel won’t die?” my 8-year son recently asked me, looking very scared and worried. He had come home from school that day, where he’d heard about rockets raining down from Gaza into Israeli cities. He was grappling in his own way with the fragility...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to “discuss events in Syria.” Netanyahu requested the meeting shortly after the United States recognized Israel’s full sovereignty over the Golan Heights through a presidential proclamation at the end of March. Israel has been calling on...

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Air Strike in Syria; 7 Reported Killed

At least seven Iranians or Iranian-allied militia members were killed in an overnight airstrike against a weapons depot outside of Aleppo, Syria, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The casualties were reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors developments on the ground in Syria. This is the Fajr-5C...

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Syria

Iran and units of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been gaining a foothold in Syria by aiding residents in areas where the Assad regime can’t reach, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Hanin Ghaddar, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the Journal that Iran is using...

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Trump Recognizes Israeli Sovereignty over Golan

In a groundbreaking development, the United States announced Monday that it formally recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. is the first country to sign such a proclamation. Standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump made...

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Military Leadership of Syria, Iran

The Syrian regime and its main backer, Iran, on Monday demanded that the United States withdraw all its troops from the war-torn country as they threatened to crush Washington’s Kurdish allies by force, Reuters reported. “The only card remaining in the hands of the Americans and their allies is the...

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Jerusalem Marathon Finish Line

The city of Jerusalem has raised the Syrian flag in honor of a Damascus-born athlete who registered to run in the city’s marathon, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Syrian-born Hasan Aljijakli, who has also lived in the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands, registered to run in Friday’s marathon. It...

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Investigators working for the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), an organization established by the United Nations to probe charges of war crimes committed in Syria since 2011 over the course of its bloody civil war, say that they are getting closer to bringing members of the regime of Bashar...

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