Beirut (AFP) – Israeli air strikes near Damascus on Wednesday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition
JERUSALEM, April 18 (Reuters) – Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhetoric from Jordan
Israel’s government on Sunday approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett‘s cabinet voted in favour of the plan that
JERUSALEM, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament approved the 2021 national budget on Thursday, with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government meeting a deadline for its passage and averting the threat of a new election. Parliament continued its overnight session and
The Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa in 2016. (CNN)Maritime tensions are escalating in the Middle East following the deadly attack on a tanker connected to an Israeli billionaire in the Arabian Sea. Two crewmembers, a
Israel-based i24News television channel has announced that it will open an office in Dubai PATRICK KOVARIK AFP/File Israel-based i24News television network said Monday it would open an office in Dubai, the first to do so since the normalisation of ties between
Smoke and flames are seen after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, June 17, 2021. © REUTERS/Mohammed Salem Israeli jets launched air strikes on Gaza overnight Thursday to Friday after militants in the Palestinian territory again set off
The Israeli air force launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after militants in the Palestinian territory sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel, security sources and witnesses said. The airstrikes and balloons marked the first major flare-up between Israel and Gaza since
Naftali Bennett, who was sworn in Sunday as Israel’s new prime minister, embodies many of the contradictions that define the 73-year-old nation. He’s a religious Jew who made millions in the mostly secular hi-tech sector; a champion of the settlement
Protesters take part in a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on potentially the last day of his premiership, Jerusalem June 12, 2021. © Ammar Awad, Reuters Israeli lawmakers are to vote Sunday on a “change” coalition government of bitter