JERUSALEM/MOSCOW – Israel tested a U.S.-backed missile system in the Mediterranean on Tuesday but did not announce the launch in advance, prompting a disclosure by Russia that kept the world on edge as the United States weighed an attack on Syria. The morning launch was first reported by Moscow media that quoted Russian defence officials…
Rosh Hashanah, tradition teaches, is the birthday of the world, the mother of all new beginnings. This year, alas, you’d be forgiven for feeling as though it’s more like the end of the world. If so, it’s somehow fitting that it’s ending right where it began, somewhere east of Eden in the Fertile Crescent, in…
Israel is deploying all of its missile defences as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday. Citing secrecy requirements, it did not give details on the number or locations of the interceptor batteries. Systems employed by Israel’s air defence corps…
The Israeli army fired a missile into Syria after several shells fired from Syria exploded in northern Israel on the Golan Heights. The missile, a Tammuz anti-tank guided missile, reportedly hit and destroyed a Syrian cannon from which mortars fired at Israel had originated. The cannon was located at a Syrian army post. The mortar…
An Islamist militant group said on Saturday four of its members were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Egypt’s North Sinai region. “Our heroes became martyrs during their jihadi duties against the Jews in a rocket attack on occupied lands,” the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group said on a jihadist website. Egyptian security sources said…
Israel has boosted its rocket defences near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks from Islamist militants fighting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, Israeli officials said on Tuesday. Violence in Sinai has surged since the army ousted elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on July 3, with militants killing at least 20 people…
Israel was responsible for an attack earlier this month on a missile warehouse in Syria, unnamed U.S. officials said. A New York Times report on Saturday cited the officials in saying that Israel carried out the July 5 air attack near Latakia, a major Syrian port city, targeting advanced anti-ship cruise missiles sold to the…
Israel could overcome advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles if they were deployed in Syria but any strikes on the system would be difficult and risk alienating its supplier, Russia. Israel has pledged to take preventive action, seeing a future Syrian S-300 as a “game-changing” threat to its own air space as well as to the relative…
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