Israel launches strikes against Iran
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Israel said it had launched strikes on weapons belonging to Syria, hours after reports that two projectiles had been fired from Syria into Israel on Tuesday. The Israeli strikes on southern Syria caused "significant human and material losses",
Israel’s army has raided a village in southern Syria to arrest several alleged agents of the Palestinian militant group Hamas
By Gram Slattery and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -On the campaign trail, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to end the world's hottest conflicts and usher in global peace, but nearly five months in,
Israel’s strike on an Iranian-controlled compound in Syria in April 2024 prompted Tehran to fire a huge barrage of missiles at Israel. Iran launched a similar assault last fall after Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, as he visited Iran last summer, and then killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.
Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.
The Israeli army says two rockets have been fired from Syria into open areas in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.
Israeli troops entered southwestern Syria in the early hours of Thursday and arrested several people who the Israeli military said were members of Palestinian militant group Hamas but which Syria's interior ministry said were civilians.
The Israeli strikes came just hours after the International Atomic Energy Agency formally censured Iran for obstructing nuclear inspections.
Israel has carried out its first airstrikes in Syria in nearly a month, saying it hit weapons belonging to the government in retaliation for the firing of two projectiles towards Israel.
Airlines evacuated airspace over Israel, Iran, Iraq and Jordan on Friday following Israeli strikes on targets in Iran, according to Flightradar24 data,
The IDF further disclosed that Hezbollah’s aerial unit, known as Unit 127, has launched over 1,000 drones toward Israel since the Gaza war began.