by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 7, 2018 | Syria and Lebanon
By Caroline Glick, JPost— Since 2006 — the end of the Second Lebanon War — the U.S. has transferred advanced arms to the (LAF) worth $1.5 billion. The U.S. has also trained 32,000 LAF troops and officers. Over the past 18 months, the shipments have included a...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 2, 2018 | Syria and Lebanon
By Israel Hayom— The recent security escalation on the northern borders has made another war with Hezbollah in the foreseeable future more likely, a senior defense official said Wednesday. The Lebanon-based terrorist group, which serves as Iran’s proxy in...
by The Jerusalem Connection | Mar 2, 2018 | Syria and Lebanon
By Israel Today— A top Israeli general and member of Knesset says that recent clashes with Iranian and other forces in Syria indicate that war in Israel’s north is only a matter of time. In an interview with Arutz Sheva radio, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eyal...
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...
