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Fast Forward Israel Will Not Allow Iran To Entrench Itself In Syria, Netanyahu Warns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in a video statement that Israel would not allow Iran to gain a foothold in Syria, hours after reports that Israel had struck an Iranian military installation near Damascus. “Let me reiterate Israel’s policy: We will not allow a regime hell-bent on the annihilation of the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum To Open Exhibit On Syrian Genocide
Mansour Omari was working as a Syrian human rights activist documenting the Assad regime’s incarceration and killing of civilians and opposition figures when he was arrested in 2012 and taken to a secret prison. During nearly a year in prison and under routine torture, Omari and his cellmates embarked on a new mission: Using ink…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Keep Striking Syria Despite U.S.-Russia Ceasefire Plan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel signaled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a ceasefire in the area. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday affirmed joint efforts to…
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Opinion Russia’s election meddling is not even its most dangerous recent achievement
Russia. When Americans hear the word these days, we’re usually thinking about the stealth computer attack on our election system. But as Russian attacks on America go, undermining our democracy and helping install a circus clown as our commander in chief is further down the list than you might think. Of greater immediate consequence is…
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Fast Forward Is Hezbollah Seeking To Drag Israel Into Syria War?
Israel accused Hezbollah on Monday of orchestrating shelling across the Golan Heights frontier in order to stoke Israeli-Syrian fighting, and called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his big-power ally Russia to curb the Lebanese guerrillas. Twice last week, mortar rounds or rockets launched from Syria hit areas of the Golan that Israel has held…
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Fast Forward IDF Strikes Syrian Rocket Launchers After Missiles Land In Israeli Territory
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel struck three rocket launchers in Syria, damaging them, in response to five rockets from Syria landing in Israeli territory on the Golan Heights. While the rockets from Syria that struck early on Saturday morning initially were identified by the Israeli military as spillover from Syria’s long-running civil war, Israeli news reports…
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Fast Forward Israel Targets Syrian Army Post In Retaliatory Strike
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli airstrike hit a Syrian army post near the border in retaliation for a rocket that struck Israeli territory in the Golan Heights. The rocket that fell in Israel on Thursday afternoon is believed to be spillover from Syria’s long running civil war and did not cause any injuries or damage….
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Breaking News Israel Air Force Hits Syrian Missile Launcher
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Air Force attacked and incapacitated a missile launcher deep in Syria after it fired a surface-to-air missile toward Israeli military jets. The Syrian missile was fired Sunday morning at Israel Air Force jets during a “routine flight” over Lebanon, the IDF said. Israeli fighter jets responded by firing bombs at…
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