An Israeli air raid on a depot controlled by the Syrian regime two weeks ago hit a supply of chemical weapons being transferred to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, a spokesperson for a Syrian opposition group said Sunday. Fahed al-Masri of the National Salvation Front told Israel’s Army Radio that...

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s leading public intellectual, returns to the United States in January to promote his new book, The Genius of Judaism, perhaps the fullest expression yet of his commitment to the Jewish faith, Jewish culture, and the continued flourishing of the State of Israel. Newly-returned from the Iraqi city...

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Israel is working hard to keep chemical weapons out of the hands of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told a Knesset committee Thursday. Israel does not usually acknowledge foreign military actions, but Liberman told European diplomats Wednesday—the same day that the Mazzeh military airport near Damascus was...

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged his country’s recent airstrikes against Syrian targets, saying in an address to European Union ambassadors on Wednesday that the strikes were meant to prevent Hezbollah from receiving “advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction.” Though it is unusual for an Israeli government official...

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A Hezbollah arms convoy and a Syrian military target were hit overnight by Israeli air strikes, Arab media reported Wednesday. Syrian government-associated news sources reported that there were four explosions in Damascus at 1:15 in the morning, as a military compound near the Damascus airport was hit by Israel Air Force planes operating in...

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The Israeli military bombed a facility belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated group in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Monday, a day after it killed four of the group’s fighters in a retaliatory airstrike. Israel Air Force jets hit a former United Nations structure that had served as...

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Half a million children are living under siege across Syria, with 100,000 trapped by government forces in eastern Aleppo alone, the United Nations Children’s Fund announced on Sunday. The children live in sixteen separate besieged areas across the embattled country, UNICEF said. “For millions of human beings in Syria, life has become an endless...

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Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have captured a key section of rebel-held Aleppo with the backing of Russia, Iran, and the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Associated Press reported Monday. Syrian forces now control some 40 percent of the rebel-held eastern portion of the city, while Syrian and allied troops have...

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The success of Iran-backed Shiite militias has bolstered the once-faltering Syrian regime and given Tehran increased influence over the outcome of the country’s civil war, The Washington Post reported Sunday. “They are building a force on the ground that, long after the war, will stay there and wield a strong military and...

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Hospitals on the rebel-held eastern side of Aleppo are no longer able to provide medical care for the estimated 250,000 remaining residents after continued damage from bombings by Syrian government forces, The New York Times reported Monday. It is uncertain whether any of the hospitals will be able to reopen,...

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