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Israel says forces will stay in security zones indefinitely

Defence Minister Israel Katz said Monday that Israel’s policy is for the Israel Defence Forces to remain in security...

Why Iran will not collapse after leadership change

The primary domestic tensions are directed towards the regime itself, rather than between completely fractured armed population groups. By Farid...

“Coffee on Little Collins Street”: the unbearable insult of the ISIS returnees

There is a particular kind of unease that comes from reading reports that a woman recently repatriated from Syria,...

Hypocrisy and double standards over the massacre of the Druze

The hypocrisy, double standards and malevolence are off the scale. Syrian government forces carried out a four-day massacre this week...

‘The Palestinian cause was liquidated on October 7th’ says Syrian activist in Jerusalem

Rawan Osman has come a long way from Lebanon, where she grew up hating Jews, to arriving in Jerusalem...

‘The game has changed’: Turkish buildup on Syrian border sparks Israeli concerns

Turkey has been moving swiftly to expand its influence over Syria, with Israel being concerned by reports on Tuesday...

Saving lives, building bridges: coexistence in the Galilee

Israeli-Arab volunteers are working with the army’s Home Front Command to improve emergency preparedness in the Galilee in a...

Israeli govt announces plan to expand Golan settlements

Israel's government has agreed to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remain...

After losing Syria, Iran ponders next steps

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria will force Iran to make significant shifts in its military doctrine,...

Netanyahu: Victory is ‘becoming a reality’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the army’s achievements, saying that victory “is becoming a reality” during a Monday...

Syria built clandestine atomic reactor, says Israeli nuclear chief

Israel’s atomic chief warned that Syria has built an undeclared nuclear facility in remarks at the International Atomic Energy...

Palmyra Tadmor

Many years ago, in Israel, my family and I stayed at a drab Government Hotel in Herzliya called The...

IDF seeks to shatter Jenin’s role as terror safe haven

The extensive Israel Defence Forces operation focused on Jenin is designed to reverse the trend in which this Palestinian...

Iran is stepping up pressure on its proxies to join forces against Israel

Heavy Iranian pressure on Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to establish a “joint operational mechanism” to coordinate activities...

Pre-Purim portents

Rosh Chodesh Adar (the new month of Adar) has arrived, and that means Purim is not far away. In Israel,...

Eli Cohen’s daughter to ask UAE for help retrieving Israeli spy’s body

Eli Cohen’s daughter said on Monday that she plans to formally appeal to the United Arab Emirates to help...

Israeli surgeons save life of premature Syrian baby

Israeli surgeons saved the life of a two-week-old Syrian-Kurdish baby born with a heart defect, the Institute of Cardiology...

IDF shells targets in Syria, state media reports

The IDF shelled targets Quneitra area in Syria on Tuesday night, the country reported. According to Syria’s SANA state news...

Exclusive: Syrian source tells TPS Latakia Port attack ‘especially painful’ to Syria

A source in Syria has informed TPS that Monday night’s bombing of several targets in the Syrian commercial port...

Report: Hezbollah ‘lies’: Four killed in Israeli strikes in Syria

Israeli Air Force (IAF) strikes in Syria against Hezbollah targets Thursday night killed four terror operatives, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported, negating claims by Hezbollah that there were no casualties in the attack.