Israel is taking the potential use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war very seriously and are in “close consultations” with the US on the matter, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. Speaking prior to a meeting with…
Efforts of the opposition in Syria to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seem to be progressing, according to an assessment from the United States. Spokesperson Victoria Nuland, speaking with reporters on Wednesday, cited reports of rebels downing a…
It was a noteworthy occasion: Israel and Gaza had agreed to stop shooting, ending speculation that a new full-scale war was about to begin. And it was an unusual, and therefore significant, announcement: The cessation of hostilities between Israel and…
A radical faction of Syrian rebels has brought the nation’s conflict to the border region with Israel, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday, against the backdrop of multiple incidents of Syrian fire landing in Israeli territory. The Daily Telegraph, citing…
For the second time in as many days, mortar fire from Syria landed in Israel, with the IDF responding to both incidents. The IDF, in a press statement on Monday’s cross-border shelling, described the fire as “part of the internal…
The past six weeks have been a particularly violent one for Israel and Gaza. But why all the attacks, and why now? To answer that, we must recall that Gaza is not in a vacuum. Despite the portrayal of Gaza…