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Israel's likely targets in Syria: Iran and Hezbollah
JERUSALEM – With three air strikes on targets in Syria since January, Israel is inserting itself into the Arab Spring’s most intractable conflict, heightening fears that the civil war could spiral into a regional conflagration. But as some...
Tags: Government, Politics, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...
Tags: Politics, Emergency Incidents, Benjamin Netanyahu, Science and Technology, National Government
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Israel says it shot down drone near Lebanon
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday that it shot down an unmanned aircraft that had entered Israeli airspace off the northern coast near Haifa, the second such incident in nearly seven months. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said the...
Tags: Television Industry, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment
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New Lebanese prime minister tapped amid regional strife
BEIRUT -- Lebanon’s political blocs united behind a compromise choice for prime minister Saturday, two weeks after his predecessor quit office under the cloud of the civil war in neighboring Syria. Tammam Salam, endorsed nearly unanimously by the...
Tags: Government, Politics, Parliament, Bashar Assad, Wars and Interventions
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Israel says it shot down drone from Lebanon
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.JERUSALEM -- Israel said Thursday that it had shot down an unmanned aircraft that entered Israeli airspace off the northern coast near Haifa, the second such incident in seven months. Military officials said they suspect the drone originated in...Tags: Television Industry, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu
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'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale
Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...
Tags: Government, Iran, Politics, Political Systems, Egypt
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Why is Obama going to Israel?
President Obama is visiting Israel this week, the first foreign trip of his second term. Some commentators have criticized the tour as a diversion from the president's intention to pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region. Why go to Israel now, they ask,...
Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, Iran, Politics, Egypt
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Syrian warplanes strike Lebanese territory
This post has been updated. Please see note below. BEIRUT — Syrian warplanes bombed a remote area of Lebanon along the border with Syria on Monday, just days after the Syrian government warned that its patience was wearing thin with the cross-...
Tags: Government, Politics, Pakistan, Military Aircraft, United Nations
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Iranian general reportedly assassinated while traveling from Syria
BEIRUT -- A high-ranking member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps was assassinated this week while traveling from Syria to neighboring Lebanon, Iranian media reported Thursday, in the strongest indication to date that senior Iranian military...
Tags: Government, Politics, Iran, Bashar Assad, Tehran (Iran)
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Syrian state media report airstrike by Israeli military
JERUSALEM – Amid rising fear that Syrian President Bashar Assad could lose control of his nation’s stockpiles of chemical and advanced weapons, Israel bombed and destroyed a military research center outside Damascus, the capital, Syrian...
Tags: Government, Politics, Bashar Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, News Agency
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Israel attacks arms convoy in Syria, U.S. confirms
WASHINGTON -- Israeli warplanes struck targets Wednesday outside Damascus, the Syrian capital, according to Syrian and Western reports, amid rising international fear that President Bashar Assad will lose control of his nation’s stockpiles of...
Tags: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bashar Assad, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Said Musa Maragha dies at 86; Arafat ally became an enemy
Said Musa Maragha, a Palestinian military commander who rose through the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization to become a trusted lieutenant of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, then broke away to lead Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels who besieged...
Tags: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Israel, Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Yasser Arafat
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