• Hezbollah praised the Hamas offensive, noting that it is a message to the Arab countries that are normalizing relations with the Tel Aviv regime. (syriatruths.com)
  • Until now, he has ruled out negotiations with Syria over a peace deal and excluded a dialogue with Hamas unless the movement undergoes an improbable ideological conversion. (nybooks.com)
  • There is plenty of dissatisfaction in the West Bank and Gaza, but the gamble of Israel and Western nations that cutting off funds for the Palestinian civil service and supplies for the hungry population would lead them to rebel and would force Hamas to change its ways has so far failed. (nybooks.com)
  • Its government has been largely deprived of resources as Israel withholds the taxes that were supposed to be collected on the Palestinian Authority's behalf, and as both the United States and the European Union insist that Hamas meet their three preconditions-recognition of Israel, renunciation of violence, and adherence to past agreements-before they will resume assistance. (nybooks.com)
  • He discusses simmering tensions in the region, where he says Israel's "tough guy" approach is a failed military strategy that only generates "greater resistance a year or two down the road" from groups like Hezbollah and Hamas - who see themselves as defending themselves from an invading and occupying force in "the last anticolonial struggle in the world. (democracynow.org)
  • More than 6,500 Palestinians and at least 1,300 Israelis have been killed, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Palestinian health authority, since Hamas militants launched an attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October, and the Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank that followed it. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Israel said its ground forces had pushed into Gaza overnight to attack Hamas targets as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was "preparing for a ground invasion" that could be one of several. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The besieged Palestinian enclave is already reeling from almost three weeks of Israeli bombardment, which was triggered by a mass killing spree in southern Israel by the Iranian-backed Hamas militants who run Gaza. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Hamas has threatened to kill some of the more than 200 hostages it brought back to Gaza, of whom Israel says more than half hold foreign passports, from 25 countries . (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Israeli army radio said the military had overnight staged its biggest incursion into northern Gaza in the current war against Hamas, which Israel has vowed to eliminate. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Israel has carried out weeks of intense bombardment of the densely populated Strip following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli communities, which it says killed some 1,400 people. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Hamas' military wing, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for shelling the northern Haifa and the Israeli border towns of Na'ura and Shlomi from southern Lebanon without giving any further details. (wkbn.com)
  • Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies have been clashing along the border since the Israel-Hamas war started five weeks ago with a bloody incursion into southern Israel by Hezbollah ally Hamas. (wkbn.com)
  • First, Israel has no clearly defined tactical or strategic objective, and so the Israeli offensive fails the first test of military logic: There is no way that Israel's actions can improve its position relative to Hamas or Hezbollah, much less Syria or Iran. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • While the proxies Iran is using in Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere are fellow Shiite militias from Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Pakistan, and Yemen (Houthis), Hamas and PIJ in Gaza are Sunni-Arabs. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Although Hezbollah is far more powerful than Hamas, it is more restraint in operating against Israel because of the nature of the Lebanese confessional system. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Hamas simply does not have such constraints, and Hamas' very raison d'ĂȘtre is to destroy Israel, not so much for sake of a Palestinian state in its place, but for the glory of Islam, and to recapture every inch of land formerly conquered by Islam. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The Islamic Republic's Modus Operandi against Israel and its other regional enemies is to incite their Arab-Palestinian proxies (Hamas and PIJ), provide them with cash, training, lethal arms, and ultimately have them pay back the Iranians with their own blood for the Ayatollahs regional hegemonic interests. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Ironically, and rather hypocritically, while the IRGC and Hezbollah are butchering fellow Sunnis in Syria, including Palestinians, Sunni-Muslim Hamas and PIJ engage with and praise the Tehran regime. (frontpagemag.com)
  • And when Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip, the Iranians sent engineers to teach Hamas' engineers how to assemble the rockets. (frontpagemag.com)
  • In 1992, the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin deported 418 of Hamas' leading figures to Lebanon. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The latter, Islamist terror group Hezbollah, taught the Hamas deportees how to build and use suicide bombs and be suicide human bombs. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Ahmadinejad having fissile material that he can give to Hezbollah and Hamas and that they can bring into Latin America and potentially bring across the border into the United States to let off dirty bombs here. (juancole.com)
  • He was referring to the pro-Iranian Shiite militias operating in Iraq and Syria in addition to the Palestinian factions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Israeli forces and armed groups in Lebanon have engaged in a series of low-level skirmishes since the outbreak of the latest war in Gaza between the Israeli military and the Hamas militant group. (kxan.com)
  • The escalation comes amid fears that the war could spread into Lebanon, where Hezbollah has expressed strong support to the militant Palestinian group Hamas. (kxan.com)
  • Israel considers the heavily-armed group in Lebanon an even bigger threat than Hamas. (kxan.com)
  • Hamas said that the bodies of three of their militants in Lebanon had been captured by the Israeli military following a cross-border operation on Oct. 14. (kxan.com)
  • For Israel - which has watched the Palestinian group Hamas take over Gaza and gain ground in the West Bank, and the Lebanese group Hezbollah display raw power in Beirut - an effort to pull Syria away from Iran could produce enormous benefits. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • And Israel and Hamas may be in for a prolonged fight. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • By Hamas's own admission, the formation of the Palestinian Unity Government (PUG) between Hamas and Fatah, is based on Hezbollah's model in Lebanon. (jewishpress.com)
  • In the PUG model, like the Hezbollah model, Hamas will run much of the show behind the scenes and also get to keep its independent army and weapons. (jewishpress.com)
  • Hamas officials boast that they are now employing the "Hezbollah model"-i.e., becoming a political party that avoids responsibility for governance, while also maintaining an independent military organization that engages in terrorism. (jewishpress.com)
  • Kerry appears to have been sending a message to Israel, that just like the US can work with Lebanon, pretending that Hezbollah terrorists are not in charge, the US can also work with the PUG, also pretending that the Hamas terrorists are not in charge. (jewishpress.com)
  • After Hamas launched its horrific attack on Israel on October 7, many observers initially expected the war to remain a limited conflict between Israel and Hamas. (lu.se)
  • To distract from its corruption and a new audit of Lebanese government records, Hezbollah wants Israel to attack Lebanon so it can bury its malfeasance in the rubble. (reform4syria.org)
  • Hezbollah and the state of Lebanon bear full responsibility for this incident and any attack that comes from Lebanese territory against the state of Israel. (reform4syria.org)
  • Israel is making Hezbollah's intentions public in the hope internal Lebanese pressure would spare the country Israeli firepower. (reform4syria.org)
  • Israel, for its part, inflicted heavy damage to Lebanese infrastructure. (reform4syria.org)
  • Under the guise of the battle over an Israeli border barrier, the Lebanese terrorist group aims to preserve its option of invading the Galilee, while also serving Iran's interests in establishing a foothold in Syria. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • Lebanese sources suggest that the group is readying itself for a prolonged conflict with Israel, which it believes is gradually accepting new rules of engagement set by Nasrallah. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • The tents are a few hundred meters away from a Hezbollah border outpost on the Lebanese side of the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • Al Akhbar , a Lebanese daily close to Hezbollah, reported on Saturday that Beirut demands that Israel recognize the border established in 1923 and withdraw from the village of Ghajar . (israeltoday.co.il)
  • On July 12, militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah crossed into Israel, captured two soldiers, and killed three others. (nybooks.com)
  • When Israeli troops pursued them into Lebanese territory, Hezbollah hit again, killing five more. (nybooks.com)
  • In Lebanon, the best Israel can do is stand aside and hope that Lebanese politicians and public opinion will damage Hezbollah in ways the Jewish state's military arsenal could not. (nybooks.com)
  • Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah declared victory in its fight in Syria. (scrippsnews.com)
  • A Hezbollah official and a Lebanese security official said the seven fighters were killed in neighboring Syria Friday morning. (wkbn.com)
  • Israel struck several southern Lebanese towns, including Yaroun, Mays el-Jabal, and Alma al-Shaab. (wkbn.com)
  • Second, Israel cannot eliminate Hezbollah, since Hezbollah is a grassroots organization that represents a plurality of Lebanese society. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • Consequently, while Hezbollah will obviously pay a short-term tactical cost that is very high, in the long run, this conflict demonstrates that it is Hezbollah, and not the Lebanese government, that has the most power in Lebanon. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claims Ghajar and the adjacent Shebaa Farms (Mount Dov) as occupied Lebanese territory. (al-monitor.com)
  • Ever since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 residents have been afraid that the village , or even part of it, will be handed over to Lebanon, given that UN representatives determined that the historic border runs right through the village - with part being Israeli territory and another part Lebanese. (al-monitor.com)
  • The Second Lebanon War in 2006 devastated the country, and a future war might be even costlier for the Lebanese. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The focus of Hezbollah's first visit to Moscow since 2011 was to be Lebanon and Lebanese politics but the conversation quickly turned to Syria. (intelligenceonline.com)
  • Demonstrators clash with the Lebanese army and riot police as they try to enter the French embassy during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (kxan.com)
  • Hours later, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. (kxan.com)
  • Over the two decades, Hezbollah evolved into a movement with thousands of trained guerrillas, members of parliament and a dynamic welfare programme benefiting thousands of Lebanese. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon has protested to Israel after it observed increased violations of Lebanese air space by Israel, which carried out raids in Syria to target what it said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • UNIFIL (the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon) says that in the course of the past week it has observed a higher number of Israeli air violations over Lebanese air space," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters on May 7. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Not surprisingly, Ahmad al-Asaad, leader of the fledgling Shiite party, the Lebanese New Option Gathering, believes that "we must get rid of Hezbollah in order to build a viable state. (jewishpress.com)
  • Observers and Lebanese residents have sometimes seen surveillance planes over Lebanon before such strikes. (ynetnews.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Lebanese environmental organization accused of being an arm of the militant group Hezbollah. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Meanwhile, Israel's building of a wall around the Lebanese part of a village that Israeli troops captured during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war worsened tensions. (texomashomepage.com)
  • In early July, Israel shelled a southern Lebanese border town after explosions were heard in a disputed area. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Despite the assessments given by Lebanese officials, some right-wing media outlets indirectly put the blame on the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, repeating reports that it housed some of its explosive material in the city. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • He comes in a situation in which sympathy for Lebanon is very strong, and the chief underpinning of his party in parliament is even outflanking him on support for Lebanese. (kpbs.org)
  • Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group, is beefing up its own forces and threatening to invade Israel. (ifcj.org)
  • Prominent among those players was the Lebanese Shi'a movement, Hezbollah. (lu.se)
  • In addition to being the only Arab actor having inflicted military defeats on Israel in 2000 and 2006, Hezbollah had also become part and parcel of the Lebanese political structure through a process of integration starting in the 1990s. (lu.se)
  • The Israeli military on Monday said it thwarted an infiltration attempt by Hezbollah militants, which set off one of the heaviest exchanges of fire along the volatile Israel-Lebanon frontier since a 2006 war between the bitter enemies. (reform4syria.org)
  • UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday it will take all necessary measures to defend itself after an exchange of fire between Hezbollah militants and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict. (yahoo.com)
  • Hezbollah has announced the death of 10 militants since skirmishes began. (kxan.com)
  • In separate violence earlier Tuesday, the Israeli military said it killed four militants who had attempted to plant explosive devices on a border wall between Israel and Lebanon. (kxan.com)
  • In 1983, militants who went on to join Hezbollah ranks carried out a suicide bombing attack that killed 241 US marines in Beirut. (bbc.co.uk)
  • U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 halted the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon, which remains a stronghold of Hezbollah militants. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement says it has fired shells and guided missiles toward Israeli-occupied territories, in the aftermath of a surprise operation by Gaza-based Palestinian fighters against the regime. (syriatruths.com)
  • This would prevent further advances by forces under Iran's command, including Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has announced the death of seven of its fighters without giving details on where they were killed. (wkbn.com)
  • JERUSALEM (AP) - Attacks by Lebanon's Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people, Israel's military and rescue services said. (wkbn.com)
  • The system, David's Sling, shot down targets simulating longer-range missiles like Scuds that could be fired at Israel from Syria and by Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas. (voanews.com)
  • An announcement on Wednesday of a peace deal that gives Hezbollah the upper hand in Lebanon's government probably added to Israel's sense of urgency. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • In its early days, Hezbollah was close to a contingent of some 2000 Iranian Revolutionary guards, based in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, which had been sent to Lebanon in 1982 to aid the resistance against Israel. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Its popularity with the Shia community - which makes up almost 40% of Lebanon's three million people - was confirmed in the 1992 parliamentary elections when Hezbollah led a successful campaign and won eight seats in parliament. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Lebanon, in a letter obtained by Reuters on May 6, also called on the U.N. Security Council to "compel Israel to halt its violations of Lebanon's sovereignty by air, sea and land, and carry out all its obligations in accordance with Resolution 1701. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Israel has reportedly carried out several air strikes in neighboring Syria since the start of the four-year civil war there, mostly destroying weaponry that were destined for Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah, Israel's long-time foe. (ynetnews.com)
  • Gallant displayed satellite photographs that he said showed the site, where the Iranian national flag and the flag of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group could be seen. (yahoo.com)
  • The announcement comes as tensions between Hezbollah and Israel flared along Lebanon's southern border for much of last month. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Independent-minded Syria will be ordered to cease support for Lebanon's Hezbollah, and allow Israel to dominate Jordan and Lebanon, or face invasion and 'regime change. (vicpeace.org)
  • Israel considers Iran and Hezbollah to be its most immediate threats. (reform4syria.org)
  • Israeli soldiers patrol along the border with southern Gaza, in Israel, 26 October 2023. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of their comrade, Mohammed Ali Assaf, who was killed by an Israeli strike in Syria Friday morning, during his funeral procession in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (wkbn.com)
  • This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows an airfield in southern Lebanon that Israel alleges is an Iranian-built Hezbollah base on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (yahoo.com)
  • The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli raids on Syria targeted advanced weapons of the Hezbollah militia, stressing that Tel Aviv will not allow the transfer of these weapons and that it will continue to target potential threats. (alarabiya.net)
  • Israel and Hezbollah fought two wars following the occupation of Lebanon - once in 2000, when the militia pushed the Israel Defense Forces out of the country, and again in 2006 following a Hezbollah attack on Israeli soil. (scrippsnews.com)
  • He armed, trained, and commanded the Iraqi Kataib militia Hezbollah that was responsible for the killing of an American contractor in Iraq and the injuring of several American soldiers - and for attacking the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which directly precipitated the current situation. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Israel is especially interested to annex southern Lebanon and wants the Hezbollah militia, which Israel has been unable to defeat, out of the way by using Washington to put Syria and Iran into the same chaos as Washington put Iraq and Libya. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • Maliki has complained bitterly about Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite militia in Lebanon. (kpbs.org)
  • Israeli officials estimate that Hezbollah possesses some 130,000 rockets and missiles capable of striking virtually anywhere in Israel. (reform4syria.org)
  • Hezbollah first fired antitank missiles at an Israeli community just over the border on Sunday, Israeli officials said, badly wounding utility workers. (wkbn.com)
  • Hezbollah said it launched guided missiles against a "logistical force belonging to the occupation army that was about to install transmission poles and eavesdropping and spying devices near the Dovev barracks. (wkbn.com)
  • The first front is Iran's ballistic missiles that can hit Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
  • In Lebanon, Hezbollah equipped with Iranian missiles is the second. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The Israeli government would answer with the launching of a series of strikes on (alleged) missile factories that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have supposedly established in Syria and Lebanon to build accurate long range missiles. (eurasiareview.com)
  • David's Sling and its Stunner interceptor missiles successfully hit "threat representative targets" in the tests, said Rick Lehner, spokesman for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, which carried out the third series of tests of the system together with the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO). (voanews.com)
  • In April, Israeli President Shimon Peres accused Syria of supplying Hezbollah with Russian-made Scud missiles. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Two more anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon at the Yiftah kibbutz in northern Israel without any casualties, the Israeli army said, adding that it had shelled Hezbollah positions in response. (kxan.com)
  • Intelligence sources said Israel on May 3 and May 5 attacked Iranian-supplied missiles stored near the Syrian capital of Damascus, awaiting transport to Hezbollah, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The arming of Hezbollah in Lebanon with precision missiles, now aimed at Israel, is a Soleimani-led IRGC operation. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Israel considers Hezbollah its most serious immediate threat, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Such apprehensions were stoked by recent movements of Shiite Muslim militias - loyal to Iran and fighting alongside Syrian government forces - toward Jordan's border with Syria, and to another strategic area in the southeast, close to where the two countries meet Iraq. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Hezbollah and other Shiite militias in Syria are the third front. (frontpagemag.com)
  • A decade earlier, Iran had created its Shiite proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Israel and Hezbollah, the Shiite group that controls much of southern Lebanon, fought a war in 2006. (yahoo.com)
  • This Shiite political party and militant group formed in 1985 to oppose Israel's occupation of Lebanon. (motherjones.com)
  • Israel is worried that the Golan , which it captured from Syria in 1967, will become a springboard for attacks on Israelis by jihadi fighters, who are taking part in the armed struggle against Assad. (ynetnews.com)
  • Hezbollah later announced attacks on Israeli military gatherings and barracks in border areas Birket Riche and Zareit, as clashes continue to intensify. (wkbn.com)
  • Israel fears that a new round of attacks is being planned by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah. (strategypage.com)
  • If such attacks materialize, Israel plans to retaliate against Syria, not against Lebanon. (strategypage.com)
  • Like its partner Tehran, Hezbollah would also adopt a measured approach in its response to Israeli attacks. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Hezbollah will certainly retaliate but will make its attacks proportionate to the Israeli air raids," predicted the participant playing the role of Hezbollah. (eurasiareview.com)
  • However, he added that if Israeli attacks were part of an all-out regional war on Iran, "then Hezbollah will sure be in it 
 as part of the 150,000-fighter resistance forces in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Not long before, Israel saw a wave of so-called "bulldozer terrorist attacks. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Israel will not accept any attacks on its territory and it will exercise its right to self-defense and take all necessary measures to protect its population,' he added. (yahoo.com)
  • As Hezbollah escalated its guerrilla attacks on Israeli targets in southern Lebanon, its military aid from Iran increased. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Israel accused Iran on Monday, Sept. 11 of building an airport in southern Lebanon to be used as a launchpad for attacks against Israelis across the border, signaling a possible escalation in tensions between the regional foes. (yahoo.com)
  • In his speech, Gallant did not describe exactly how Hezbollah would launch attacks from the runway or use the airport for "terrorist purposes. (yahoo.com)
  • Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the State Department, said the U.S. took action "as part of our efforts to prevent and disrupt financial and other support for terrorist attacks in Lebanon, Israel, and around the world. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Israel, which has sparred with Hezbollah in recent weeks and has carried out attacks in Beirut before, deflected blame. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A protracted guerrilla war, characterized by roadside bombs and sniper attacks, eventually forced Israel to withdraw in May 2000. (ifcj.org)
  • What began with a Good Fence policy in Lebanon ended with painful Hezbollah attacks and an unconditional withdrawal to the international border. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In the decades prior to the upheavals, Hezbollah had experienced an extraordinary evolution from being a relatively marginal guerrilla force, conducting sporadic attacks against its arch-enemy Israel in reaction to the latter's military aggression on Lebanon in the late 1970s to early 1980s, into a mature organization, social movement and political party. (lu.se)
  • Hezbollah formed during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s and is stridently anti-Israel. (scrippsnews.com)
  • AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - A separate truce for southern Syria, brokered by the US and Russia, is meant to help allay growing concerns by neighboring Israel and Jordan about Iranian military ambitions in the area, including fears that Tehran plans to set up a disruptive long-term presence there. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Israel is also worried about the recent movements of Iranian-backed forces. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This analysis of commercial satellite imagery at Tiyas Airbase in Syria indicates the scope and proximity of Russian and Iranian military ties. (csis.org)
  • If Washington wants to contain Tehran and prevent further Iranian expansion, U.S. policymakers will need to increase pressure on Moscow to curb Tehran's activities in countries like Syria. (csis.org)
  • 1 One example of Russian-Iranian cooperation is in Syria. (csis.org)
  • It highlights what we assess to be the Iranian movement of weapons, other material, and personnel to Syria with the awareness and support of Moscow. (csis.org)
  • It supports Iranian activity and aid in Syria, but also explicitly or tacitly allows Israeli military actions against Iranian targets. (csis.org)
  • In recent years however, in what is called "the war between wars," Israel has changed the formula, and is targeting Iranian assets in Syria, both human and material. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Sometimes it is Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards corps (IRGC) personnel, and other times a missile base manned by Iranians, or some sophisticated weaponry shipped to Hezbollah from Iran. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Hezbollah said it carried out Wednesday's attack, which appeared to be in retaliation for a Jan. 18 Israeli air strike in southern Syria that killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general. (yahoo.com)
  • Moreover, the Iranian paradigm of wilayat al-faqih, to which Hezbollah subscribes, baffles many critical-minded Shiites. (jewishpress.com)
  • The establishment of Iranian missile factories in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq is a Soleimani-led IRGC operation. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • The present escalation of that war is a sign that the Iranian empire has overreached, is collapsing, and needs a "victory" against the mullahs' "Great Satan" (U.S.) or the "Little Satan" (Israel) to justify its continued existence. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Earlier this year, an alleged Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general. (ynetnews.com)
  • Israel has said in recent years that it shot down Hezbollah or Iranian-linked drones launched from Lebanon and Syria. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel considers Iran to be its greatest enemy, and Gallant outlined what he said were a list of Iranian activities along Israel's various fronts, including support for militant groups in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel, which has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967, has launched airstrikes on Iranian targets, Hezbollah, and other militias in Syria. (motherjones.com)
  • But the Israeli military said it was sure Hezbollah militant group, sworn to obey Iran, had carried out the operation. (reform4syria.org)
  • The Israeli military Sunday night shared an aerial video showing strikes on what it said was Hezbollah militant infrastructure including a "military compound with a warehouse of weapons and military infrastructure. (wkbn.com)
  • Fighters from a shadowy militant group [Jabhat al-Nusra] with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syrian rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern Syria on Friday, according to activists and amateur video. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • BEIRUT (AP) - Clashes erupted Tuesday along the Lebanon-Israel border that left five Hezbollah fighters dead, marking the largest number of casualties for the militant group in a single day as tensions with Israel escalate. (kxan.com)
  • The group also allowed Palestinian militant factions to operate in its strongholds and fire rocket barrages toward Israel this past spring. (yahoo.com)
  • The Treasury says Green Without Border's outposts are manned by Hezbollah operatives, serving as cover for the militant group's warehouses and munitions tunnels. (texomashomepage.com)
  • However, Israel, the United States and some in Lebanon accuse the NGO of hiding Hezbollah's military activities by setting up outposts for the militant group along the border. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Syria ally Russia is to deploy military police in the area. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Predominantly Sunni Jordan is a US ally and maintains discrete security ties with Israel. (timesofisrael.com)
  • 3 The possibility of losing Syria was particularly alarming because Moscow had just lost its ally in Ukraine. (csis.org)
  • Second, Syria had long been an important ally of Moscow. (csis.org)
  • Iran, a long-standing ally of the Assad regime, has deployed the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria, provided weapons and intelligence to the government, and sent Pakistani and Afghan mercenaries to fight in pro-Assad militias. (motherjones.com)
  • Iran's most important regional ally, Hezbollah, faces its own challenges in Lebanon, where a new war with Israel could deepen the country's political and economic crises. (lu.se)
  • Ironically, there are several reasons for believing that Israel's destruction of southern Lebanon and southern Beirut will weaken its bargaining position relative to its adversaries, and will strengthen its adversaries' hands. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • Hezbollah, although yielding major power in Beirut, has to give political consideration to the impact on Lebanon should they provoke a war with Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
  • US Secretary of State made an unexpected visit to Beirut, Lebanon on Wednesday calling on the country to pick a president and end the political stalemate. (jewishpress.com)
  • A picture shows the scene of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Hezbollah has come under pressure at home from its rivals, who blame it for aggravating the country's severe economic crisis through its military interventions in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. (reform4syria.org)
  • But Syria's neighbors suspect that Iran is pursuing a broader agenda, including carving out a land route through Syria that would create a territorial continuum from Iran and Iraq to Lebanon. (timesofisrael.com)
  • 4 Third, Russian leaders were concerned that Assad's collapse would allow the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and other terrorists to use territory in Syria and Iraq to attract more fighters, improve their capabilities, and spread terrorism in and around Russia. (csis.org)
  • After all, over 9,000 individuals from Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join Salafi-jihadist groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. (csis.org)
  • Participants coming from the U.S., Iran, Britain, Germany, Russia, Kuwait, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon were selected to best reflect the views of the respective countries or groups they represented. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Since then, apart from limited clashes and escalated rhetoric, Hezbollah's military caliber has significantly increased, and became a key military actor in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region. (kxan.com)
  • In a period in which Iran is on the march and extending its influence from Lebanon to Iraq, for Israel to consider giving up the Golan barrier would be a strategic error of the highest order," said Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a former official and adviser to conservative governments under the Likud Party, which is now the opposition. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The regime, reduced to stealing Iraqi oil to sell on the black market, faces rebellion in its provinces Lebanon and Iraq - as well as at home. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Prime Minister MALIKI: (Through translator) What is going on in Lebanon, and what we, in Iraq, see on television, will have a negative affect on the process of stability in Iraq. (kpbs.org)
  • As ISIS spread in Syria and Iraq, the United States responded with airstrikes, special forces troops, and support for Kurdish-led forces. (motherjones.com)
  • Iraq, which has conducted airstrikes on ISIS inside Syria, may play a larger role in the fight if the US withdraws. (motherjones.com)
  • He tersely summed up the Bush administration's reasons for war against Iraq: 'Oil and Israel. (vicpeace.org)
  • France will get renewed influence in Syria as a consolation prize for losing out in Iraq to the Americans and Brits. (vicpeace.org)
  • It said Iran was untethered in its backing of Hezbollah and other anti-Israel groups in Lebanon and Syria, as well as proxies that continue to further destabilize conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. (jpost.com)
  • long border in 2000 to verify Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, which the Security Council later certified as complete. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • Israel has complained about further provocations by Hezbollah, including over tents it says the group pitched on the Israeli side of the Blue Line - a demarcation set by the United Nations for the purpose of confirming the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon when it ended an occupation in 2000. (yahoo.com)
  • Thousands of Hezbollah fighters fought alongside Assad's forces against the rebels in the border town, which was recaptured after weeks of intense battles. (ynetnews.com)
  • A war Israel fought without a clearly defined purpose has left the country without any tangible achievement. (nybooks.com)
  • Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a draw. (kxan.com)
  • Hezbollah and Israel fought a 34-day war in 2006 in which hundreds of people were killed. (ynetnews.com)
  • Israel and Hezbollah fought to a draw in a monthlong war in Lebanon in 2006. (texomashomepage.com)
  • WW in Syria documents the lead up to war in Syria, the precursors, the ideologies, the tactics, who the combatants are and who is aligned with who at different stages of the war, the battles fought, the impact of sophisticated weaponry, adherence to international law, the media narratives, and the cost of winning and losing the war in Syria for the warring parties. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • On the contrary, the very fact that these talks are proceeding means that Syria does not want to be under Iran's thumb. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • Military forces continued to shell targets in southern Lebanon for at least an hour, while the Israeli military ordered civilians in border communities to remain indoors and closed roads to civilian traffic. (reform4syria.org)
  • On 22 May 2018, during a conference in Herzliya, a senior Israeli Air Force officer said that Israel continued to strike targets in Syria since the May 2018 Israel-Iran incidents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel will not stand by as Hezbollah targets Israelis,' Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor said in a letter to the Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (yahoo.com)
  • Israeli troops are striking Hezbollah targets in neighboring Syria and drilling for what could be an invasion of Lebanon. (ifcj.org)
  • Israel responded by attacking Syrian military positions and beefing up its forces in the area. (reform4syria.org)
  • Terror Free Syria (TFS) is a US-based Syrian-American news website whose goals are to combat terror and violent rulers. (reform4syria.org)
  • The incidents are considered a spillover of the Quneitra Governorate clashes since 2012 and later incidents between Syrian Army and the rebels, ongoing on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan and the Golan Neutral Zone and the Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 6 January 2013, it was reported that Israel would be building an improved security fence in the ceasefire line between the Israeli-occupied and Syrian-controlled zones of the Golan Heights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Syria - On 13 November 2012, the Syrian government, through the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), pledged to halt firing toward Israeli territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Syrian opposition - On November 2012, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported that the Free Syrian Army released a statement accusing Israel of attempting to "aid Assad's criminal regime" by firing into Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fierce battles have been raging between rebels and army forces in "Old Quneitra," the only Syrian city situated near the border with Israel. (ynetnews.com)
  • The victory that was achieved at the hands of our brave soldiers sends a clear message to all those who are involved in the aggression against Syria, on top being the Zionist enemy and its agents in the region and tools on the ground," said a statement carried by Syrian state television after the army retook Qusair. (ynetnews.com)
  • While the Syrian regime stated that it shot down one of the fighters with other casualties, Israel completely denied the statement and confirmed that all planes returned to their bases safely. (alarabiya.net)
  • In this Saturday, May 9, 2015 file photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands on a hill next to the group's yellow flag in the fields of the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The question and concern is of course if it will be exploited by the Syrian regime, Hezbollah and Iran to create new facts on the ground," said Chagai Tzuriel, the director general of Israel's Intelligence Ministry. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Ever since the village was captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, the villagers have been defining themselves as Syrian nationals residing in Israel. (al-monitor.com)
  • The Ukrainian crisis has Israel between a rock and a hard place as its juggles its strategic alliance with Washington and its necessary Syrian coordination with Moscow. (intelligenceonline.com)
  • Kerry also spoke about the Syrian refugees, pledging more US money to help them, and addressed the Hezbollah terror group as a legitimate player in Lebanon and Syria . (jewishpress.com)
  • But to some it appears that Kerry's visit went beyond the political push for stability in Lebanon or helping Syrian refugees, and it was actually a message to Israel. (jewishpress.com)
  • Soleimani's IRGC-controlled militias sent tens of thousands of troops, mostly Pakistani and Afghan, to Syria to commit large-scale ethnic cleansing of Syrian Sunnis and precipitating the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • as I write, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and US are fighting to defeat an Islamic State (IS) assault on a prison in northeastern Syria). (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Less than an hour after a car bomb exploded wounding his leg in the Syrian province of Quneitra, Dr. Abu Hamzeh was in Israel. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Syrian army, backed by Hezbollah, which Western countries and the Arab League consider a terrorist organization, is in the north. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Institute for Strategic Studies' publication noted that Israel doubts the new Syrian players would be reliable partners and the lessons from its involvement in Lebanon still hurt. (globalsecurity.org)
  • As tensions escalate, Lebanon has backed Hezbollah's claims, rejecting any negotiations with Israel over the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's choice words on the deal came the same day Hezbollah's leader claimed it won the war in Syria. (scrippsnews.com)
  • With both Hezbollah sponsors being customers of the Russian weapons industry, a large part of Hezbollah's ample arsenal is Russian-made. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Hezbollah's political rhetoric has centred on calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A security source in Lebanon told Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV channel that the drone crashed overnight and that an Israeli airstrike on Sunday morning blew up the drone to ensure it is destroyed. (ynetnews.com)
  • Observers saw Russia summoning the ambassador as a message from Moscow echoing its control over Syria or areas that are still under the control of Bashar al Assad. (alarabiya.net)
  • The southern Syria truce is separate from so far unsuccessful efforts by Russia, Turkey and Iran to set up "de-escalation zones" in Syria, including in the south. (timesofisrael.com)
  • This brief analyzes satellite imagery of Tiyas Airbase (or T-4) in Syria, which is used by Iran and Russia. (csis.org)
  • Despite wanting to accommodate both the United States and Russia, Israel has provoked Vladimir Putin's ire by what Moscow sees as Tel Aviv's overly pro-Ukrainian stance. (intelligenceonline.com)
  • This has strained their relations to such an extent that Russia is questioning the highly sensitive matter of Israel's freedom of action in Syria. (intelligenceonline.com)
  • How Russia arms Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists with some of its most deadly weapons. (frontpagemag.com)
  • And I particularly call on those nations directly supporting the Assad regime - in what has become a grotesque display of modern warfare by a state against its own people - I call on them - Iran, Russia, and I call on Hezbollah, based right here in Lebanon - to engage in the legitimate effort to bring this war to an end . (jewishpress.com)
  • Speaking of faulty intelligence, Syria and Russia are scoffing at America's chemical weapons claims. (fitsnews.com)
  • Washington and Israel equipped and trained the Georgian military and sent it to kill Russian peacekeepers and attack South Ossetia and then blamed Russia for "aggression. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • It has also gotten a boost from Russia and Iran as well as Hezbollah and pro-regime militias. (motherjones.com)
  • Russia and Syria have been allies since the Cold War. (motherjones.com)
  • The Israeli army further said that one of its drones struck a Hezbollah post in Shebaa Farms. (syriatruths.com)
  • According to reports in Lebanon, Israel has been flying its drones over south Lebanon and the Hermon Mountain all morning. (ynetnews.com)
  • He said that, in the event of a conflict, Israel would be prepared to strike Hezbollah with "deadly force" to ensure "Hezbollah and Lebanon pay a heavy price. (yahoo.com)
  • The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is likely to figure into today's meeting between President Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (kpbs.org)
  • Author A.B. Abrams provides an in-depth analysis on the US-led war in Syria in his excellent book World War in Syria: Global Conflict on Middle Eastern Battlefields (Clarity Press, 2021). (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Israel has its hands full with its military response in Gaza, Iran likely wants to avert a potential clash with the United States, and Washington is not interested in a destabilizing regional conflict that would disrupt oil markets, fuel extremism, and draw attention from the war in Ukraine. (lu.se)
  • Israeli military Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi threatened that Israel would retaliate aggressively should Hezbollah escalate. (kxan.com)
  • Hezbollah is committed, like its patron Iran, to Israel's destruction and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, regularly threatens Israel. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel - On 12 November 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "we are closely following the events and will respond accordingly," and that Israel "won't allow its borders to be breached or its citizens to be fired upon. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning if Hezbollah joins the fray in Israel's escalating war on the Palestinian territories, Israel will wage a second war in Lebanon. (democracynow.org)
  • Hezbollah claims the area called Shebaa Farms belongs to Lebanon. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • In a statement released on Sunday, Hezbollah said it had targeted the Radar, Zabdin, and Ruwaysat Al-Alam sites in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms. (syriatruths.com)
  • Nor for the moment is it clear how the Palestinians assess the ramifications of the UAE-Israel deal. (peacenow.org)
  • The Palestinians cannot veto Israel-Arab peace. (peacenow.org)
  • Israel accused Iran of building missile production sites in Syria and Lebanon, both of which share borders with the Jewish state. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Army Radio reported that another antitank missile had been fired from Lebanon. (wkbn.com)
  • The second scenario pictured a missile attack by Hezbollah on Israel from either Syria or Lebanon, inflicting a big number of casualties. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The second scenario revolves around a missile attack by Hezbollah against northern Israel in retaliation to Israeli air raids on its bases in Syria or Lebanon. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed when Hezbollah fired a missile at a convoy of Israeli military vehicles at the Lebanon border. (yahoo.com)
  • An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon landed in the town of Metula in northern Israel on Tuesday, wounding three people, according to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed. (kxan.com)
  • The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border. (kxan.com)
  • In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters were not involved in any fighting along the border with Israel. (reform4syria.org)
  • Since then, Iran has helped to re-arm Hezbollah, sent the group money and even helped train fighters. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Hezbollah identified the five killed fighters as Mahmoud Baez, Hussien Fasai, Hussein al-Tawil, Mahdi Atwi and Ibrahim al-Dubuq, but didn't provide further details about their deaths. (kxan.com)
  • The terror organization denied attacking Israel because Hezbollah wants Israel to attack Lebanon and make it look like the attack was unprovoked . (reform4syria.org)
  • The posts were built under the guise of Green Without Borders, a Hezbollah -affiliated organization that poses as an environmental NGO. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • The terrorist organization controlling the south of Lebanon is supported by Syria and Iran, who are willing to supply it with any kind of weapons. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The terrorist organization must be disarmed and the government of Lebanon must abide by its international commitments and fully implement Security Council resolution 1701. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel accuses the organization of gathering intelligence for Hezbollah through its outposts, which Nahli has denied. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Is he referring to East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, both annexed by Israel decades ago? (peacenow.org)
  • In 1982, Israel designated the village a local council after annexing it under the Golan Heights Law . (al-monitor.com)
  • The party has operated with neighbouring Syria's blessing - with the guerrilla war against being a card for Damascus to play in its own confrontation with Israel over the occupation of the Golan Heights. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Exceeding expectations-or fears-Hezbollah stood fast, firing a steady stream of rockets deep into Israel and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to seek shelter or move south. (nybooks.com)
  • No solution in Lebanon can exclude Syria, and so now the US and Israelis need Syria's approval, which certainly weakens both the US and Israel. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • This cooperation, which has allowed Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) to increase their capabilities and influence in Syria, should be concerning for the United States as tensions increase between Washington and Tehran. (csis.org)
  • Israel has acknowledged carrying out scores of airstrikes in Syria it says were meant to stop Iran from transferring sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah. (reform4syria.org)
  • Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes in Syria against suspected shipments of "game-changing" weapons bound for Hezbollah. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The third section highlights Israeli airstrikes in Syria, including at T-4 Airbase, in close proximity to Russian aircraft. (csis.org)
  • Meanwhile, reports in Lebanon said 12 rockets exploded in the city of Baalbek, which is considered a stronghold of Hezbollah. (ynetnews.com)
  • The south remains a Hezbollah stronghold. (yahoo.com)
  • On 30 March 2018, Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Gadi Eizenkot, confirmed in an interview with Maariv that the Israeli Air Force continued to conduct operations in Syria since the February 2018 Israel-Syria incident. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, Hezbollah continues to provoke the Israeli Defense Forces and challenge Israel along the Blue Line, exacerbating border incidents and violating established arrangements. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • The Israel Defense Forces says it downed a small Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli airspace from southern Lebanon yesterday. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The Israeli military said they identified 15 launches from Lebanon over the past hour and their defense systems intercepted four of them. (wkbn.com)
  • A day after the Jan. 28 Hezbollah attack on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) convoy on Mount Dov, in which two soldiers were killed and seven injured, residents of Ghajar have yet to resume their routine. (al-monitor.com)
  • APPLAUSE) GINGRICH: If - if an Israeli prime minister, haunted by the history of the Holocaust, recognizing that three nuclear weapons is a holocaust in Israel, if an Israeli prime minister calls me and says, I believe in the defense of my country. (juancole.com)
  • Obama is also reportedly contemplating another open-ended commitment - the establishment of a U.S.-enforced "no-fly zone" in Syria that would involve the destruction of the country's Russian-built air defense network. (fitsnews.com)
  • Nevertheless, the Israeli murder of the Russian airmen has forced Putin to finally honor his contract with Syria and to supply the S-300 air defense system that Syria paid for but Putin, in deference to the criminal state of Israel, refused to deliver. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • This air defense system will, I think, allow Syria to close its air space to Israeli, US, and NATO aggression without Putin having to declare a no fly zone, an obvious solution that Putin has avoided in dererence to "Russia's American and Israeli partners. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • For months there has been no cross-border fire," the Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of General Staff Major General Yair Golan told VOA. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Recent incidents include a tent manned by Hezbollah terrorists in an area south of the border but north of an Israeli security barrier near Mount Dov, where the border converges with Syria. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • In that model, Hezbollah terrorists participate in the government, while still getting to run their own very large and independent army. (jewishpress.com)
  • Washington pretends that others of its mercenaries are "terrorists," whose presence is Washington's justification for having US military forces in Syria illegally to "fight terrorism," an excuse that has evaporated with Washington's obvious and determined shielding of the remaining al Qaeda, al Nusra, and ISIS forces in Syria. (paulcraigroberts.org)
  • The clashes came as skirmishes between the Iran-backed group and Israeli military continue to intensify along the Lebanon-Israel border, threatening to escalate into another front in the Mideast's latest war. (wkbn.com)
  • The Israeli official recognition, which is the first of its kind, also included a statement that the Israeli forces retaliated against a rocket fired from Syria in response to these raids. (alarabiya.net)
  • Abrams asks why the West and Israel were bent on " regime change " in Syria . (dissidentvoice.org)
  • However, as the protests reached Syria the image of Hezbollah as a champion of the oppressed shifted when it decided to side with the regime of Bashar al-Assad and thus raising the question of what it is that actually drives and determines the actions and policy decisions of Hezbollah. (lu.se)
  • A U.N. spokesman and Spanish officials said the peacekeeper was killed as Israel responded with air strikes and artillery fire. (yahoo.com)
  • Turkey and Iran have also condemned the Israeli strikes on Syria. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Israel rarely confirms such strikes. (ynetnews.com)
  • Hezbollah erected two tents in Chebaa Farms and the Kfar Chouba hills, which Israeli captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. (texomashomepage.com)
  • Those shifts are making regional escalation more likely-and the risk of confrontation between Iran and Israel is particularly acute. (lu.se)
  • Israel's effort to fortify the border was prompted by the discovery of Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels in 2018. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • In 2018, Israel's intelligence minister said it had taken military action in Syria more than 200 times. (motherjones.com)
  • It said safe passage for foreigners wishing to leave Gaza, a continuous flow of aid into the narrow coastal strip, which is blockaded by Israel, and a pathway to permanent peace with the Palestinian people were also discussed. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • He said Israel is focused on its war in Gaza but it also remains at a "very high level of preparedness in the north" and ready to take further action. (wkbn.com)
  • According to reports, among the slogans shouted and posters displayed by the protesters on Monday, in shopping malls and outside the parliament building in Tehran, were "Death to Palestine," "Help us, not Gaza," and "Leave Syria alone and deal with Iran. (jpost.com)
  • Hezbollah - or Party of God - emerged in Lebanon in the early 1980s and became the region's leading radical Islamic movement, determined to drive Israeli troops from Lebanon. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Hezbollah emerged as a ragtag group in the 1980s, funded by Iran to battle Israeli troops occupying southern Lebanon. (ifcj.org)
  • 2 Yet Moscow and Tehran have developed a working relationship in Syria, even though they have their own interests. (csis.org)
  • Since then, Tehran has essentially set up six fronts against Israel. (frontpagemag.com)
  • David Barnea said Israel is prepared to strike perpetrators in "the heart of Tehran. (yahoo.com)
  • Opposition sources have claimed that the coastal area may serve as a "refuge Alawite state" in case Assad is overthrown in Damascus and Syria will dissolve into separate ethnic and religious sects. (ynetnews.com)
  • Assad must keep the route between Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon to the coast open. (ynetnews.com)
  • His remarks come after Reuters cited U.S. officials saying Israel would prefer that the deal - officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - stay in place. (scrippsnews.com)
  • In an unusually bold attack earlier this year, a man who Israeli officials said was likely linked to Hezbollah infiltrated into Israel from Lebanon and detonated a bomb that severely wounded an Israeli citizen. (yahoo.com)
  • Senior administration officials openly speak of invading Iran, Syria, Libya and Lebanon. (vicpeace.org)
  • Fuelling the sense of urgency around David's Sling development, Israeli media on Wednesday published military assessments that, in the next war with Hezbollah, the guerrillas could rain up to 1,500 rockets on Israel daily, killing hundreds of civilians. (voanews.com)
  • Armed resistance is the only way to confront the Israeli "aggression," Hezbollah said, urging Israel to learn the "important lessons" taught by the "Palestinian resistance. (syriatruths.com)
  • President Bashar Assad's army has regained control of the Quneitra crossing, the only border crossing between Israel and Syria, which was seized by rebel forces for the first time earlier Thursday. (ynetnews.com)
  • In a series of strategic political and military moves, Hezbollah is intensifying preparations for an imminent confrontation with Israel, drawing global attention and raising concerns about regional stability. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • TFS stands against the Assad and ISIS terror as it stands against al-Qaeda and Hezbollah terror. (reform4syria.org)
  • Will we have to wait 50 years or more to learn that the 'rebels' and Israel nerve gassed women and children, not Assad and our war against Syria was based on a Jewish lie? (stormfront.org)
  • With the possibility of a new Democratic administration looking more favorably on Syria, the time to strike for Bashir Assad seems now. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • International peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have been deployed in southern Lebanon to monitor the border since 1978. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • Prosor said: 'Events in the north continue to unfold and Israel extends its condolences to UNIFIL and the Spanish government over the death of one of its soldiers earlier today. (yahoo.com)
  • UN's peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, in November, said their patrols were prevented from nearing shipping containers and prefabricated buildings set up alongside the border, some with clear Green Without Borders markings. (texomashomepage.com)
  • The assault was the most serious incident involving civilians along the Lebanon-Israel border since an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Nov. 5 killed a woman and three children. (wkbn.com)
  • Daniel Hagari, said the Hezbollah attack on Israeli civilians was "very serious. (wkbn.com)
  • For instance, Hezbollah has its own media network, and can draw upon the global satellite network to get its message out, and can also use the global media to take advantage of Israel's targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • It wasn't clear if the injured were civilians or soldiers, but Israel has ordered civilians to evacuate the area near the border with Lebanon. (kxan.com)
  • In other words, the PA will serve as legitimate cover while the Islamic resistance continues to wage its war of liberation against Israel. (jewishpress.com)
  • He's called for an immediate ceasefire, in sharp contrast to President Bush's support for Israeli action to weaken Hezbollah. (kpbs.org)
  • And in the past week, Hezbollah managed to steal surveillance equipment mounted on an Israeli tower along the frontier. (israeltoday.co.il)
  • The group hit back days later with a rocket attack that killed two Israeli soldiers on the frontier with Lebanon. (ynetnews.com)
  • So far, artillery exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel have been limited to several towns along the border. (kxan.com)