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Breaking News Israel Providing Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Civilians Near Golan Heights Border
Israel is providing humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians caught up in fighting between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebels near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, its defense minister said on Tuesday. Israel has not publicly taken sides in the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in Syria, with which it is still formally at war. Scores of wounded Syrians have…
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Breaking News Spiralling Syria Violence Could Suck In Israel, U.N. Chief Warns
A spillover of violence from Syria’s civil war into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights is jeopardizing a decades old ceasefire between Israel and Syria, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in a 1967 war. Syrian troops are not allowed in…
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Breaking News Israel Threatened To Attack Assad Troops Along Syria-Israel Border
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said at a closed emergency session of the UN Security Council on Friday night that Israel threatened to attack President Bashar Assad’s troops near the border with Syria, during clashes Thursday between rebels and the Assad regime. A senior IDF official confirmed Saturday that Israel did indeed pass that warning…
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Breaking News U.N. Says No To Russia Peacekeeping Force in Golan
The United Nations on Friday thanked Russia for offering to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights but said an agreement between Israel and Syria bars all permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission there. President Vladimir Putin made the offer in Russia on Friday after Vienna said it would…
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Breaking News Russia Is Prepared To Step in For Austria in Golan, Says Putin
Russia is ready to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. Austria, whose peacekeepers account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong U.N. force observing a four-decade-old ceasefire between Syria…
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Breaking News Austria Will Yank Peacekeepers From Golan Amid Syria Chaos
Austria will withdraw its peacekeepers from the U.N. monitoring force on the Golan Heights given worsening fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels, it said on Thursday. Austrians account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong U.N. force monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel, and their departure will deal a serious blow to the mission….
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Breaking News Militant Palestinian Group Vows To Take Back Golan
A militant Palestinian group in Damascus said it is forming combat units to try to recapture Israeli-occupied territory, in particular the Golan Heights, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah that they would support such operations. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) said it was preparing for new operations after nearly…
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Breaking News Syria and Hezbollah Threaten To Turn Golan Heights Into ‘Resistance Front’
Threats from Damascus and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to turn the Golan Heights into a “resistance front” against Israel could end nearly four decades of calm across the increasingly tense ceasefire line separating Israeli and Syrian forces. President Bashar al-Assad, and his father before him, kept the front line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan…
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