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Iran army chief vows next war will see ‘eradication’ of Israel
Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2017
Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), issued new threats against Israel on Thursday, vowing that any future conflict will be the Jewish state's last.
Iran’s Syria Bases Near Israel Have Apocalyptic Intent
Posted on Friday, November 24, 2017
The locations of some of Iran’s military installations in Syria, including some within 30 miles of Israeli territory in the Golan Heights, may be motivated more by Tehran’s desire to provoke an Islamic end-of-the-world cataclysm than for strategic…
Netanyahu presses Putin on keeping Iran out of Syria
Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about a ceasefire deal in the Syrian civil war and Iranian presence near Israel’s borders with the war-torn country, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
IDF fires at Syrian army position in Golan
Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2017
Israeli tank units in the Golan Heights fired a warning shot at a Syrian army position inside a no-man’s land along the Israeli-Syrian frontier Sunday evening.
IDF deploys Iron Dome, raises alert amid Gaza terror threat
Posted on Monday, November 13, 2017
A number of Iron Dome missile defense batteries were deployed in central Israel on Monday, the military said, amid heightened tensions with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad since the army demolished the terrorist group’s border-crossing attack tunnel last month.
Saudis told Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or resign — report
Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2017
Saudi Arabia last week ordered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to either accept an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal being put together by the Trump administration, or resign, according to an Israeli report Sunday.
Will Trump bring peace to the Middle East?
Posted on Sunday, November 12, 2017
US President Donald Trump and his advisors have begun formulating a new peace plan that is set to surpass in scale prior Israeli-Palestinian peace-making initiatives, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Israel hosts its largest aerial exercise in history
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2017
The largest seen aerial exercise in Israel began on Thursday and is to continue for the next two weeks. 1,000 highly-trained fighter pilots from eight different countries opened the "Blue Flag" exercise, which includes roughly 100 of fighter…