by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 2, 2018 | Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By Yoav Limor, Yoni Hersch, Daniel Siryoti and Eli Leo, Israel Hayom— Iran is “playing with fire” in its efforts to entrench itself in Syria, Israel’s northern neighbor, a senior Israeli defense official warned Wednesday. The statement followed...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 25, 2018 | Syria and Lebanon
BY Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel-— The IDF Galilee Division on Thursday completed a series of large-scale exercises designed to prepare the military for a potential rapidly unfolding war in Lebanon, the army said amid rising tensions in recent weeks along...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 22, 2018 | IDF, Syria and Lebanon
BY ANNA AHRONHEIM, JPost— The UN force in Lebanon has accused Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army of hampering their work, which includes spying on the peacekeepers, in a report due to appear on the website of French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, on Friday. The...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 21, 2018 | Hizballah, Syria and Lebanon
BY Ynetnews— The exchange of threats between Israel and Iran continued on Monday in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, with a senior Iranian official saying Tel Aviv would be “leveled to the...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 19, 2018 | Syria and Lebanon
By Reuters— United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he was worried about the possibility of a direct confrontation between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group. Guterres said the latest signals from Israel and the...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 19, 2018 | Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By Herb Keinon, JPost— Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov chastised Iran on Monday for calling for Israel’s destruction during a panel discussion in Moscow where Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was sitting with him on the dais. “We have stated many times...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 15, 2018 | Iran, Russia, Syria and Lebanon
BY AMOS YADLIN, ARI HEISTEIN, Foreign Policy— With the Syrian rebels on the run and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gaining momentum, Iran is seeking to rewrite the “rules of the game” governing Israel’s actions in Syria. Last weekend’s clashes on...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 14, 2018 | Hizballah, Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By Anna Ahronheim, JPOST— Israel will do everything necessary to prevent Iran from consolidating itself in Syria, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday. “Iran declared war on us. The highest echelons in Tehran want to erase the Zionist entity; they do...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Feb 12, 2018 | Iran, Syria and Lebanon
By Deborah Danon, Breitbart— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have warned Iran via European leaders in recent weeks that he would respond militarily to any provocation, an Israeli TV report said Sunday. Prior to Israel’s downing of an Iranian drone...
