JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is set to travel to the US for consultations as part of preparations to launch an attack on Iran in response to its retaliatory missile strikes, the Hebrew media has reported. Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported that Gallant will make a quick visit to Washington to discuss [&hel...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to defend US personnel, allies and partners during a call Tuesday with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant following a missile attack by Iran on Israel. Austin and Gallant “expressed mutual appreciation for the coordinated defense of Israel” ag...
Lebanon’s health ministry reports that at least 25 people have been killed since Friday morning. An airstrike in the border town of Shebaa killed nine family members, including four children. Local sources say the attack occurred around 3:00 a.m. local time, when the family was sleeping in their home. On Thursday alone, Israeli airstrik...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel on Friday announced its formal opposition to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the court’s prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The Israeli Foreign Ministry appeal challenges both the authority of the court and the...
Israeli media outlets are claiming that there was coordination between Israel and the United States in the explosions of wireless devices in Lebanon. Thousands of pagers and Icom wireless devices used by Hezbollah and medics exploded across Lebanon this week, causing 26 deaths and injuring over 3,200 people. Israel’s official broadcaster KAN r...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones deep into Israel as part of the “first phase” of its response to Tel Aviv’s assassination of its senior commander Fouad Shukr. In a statement, Hezbollah said that “the first stage of our response to Shukr’s assassination [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, the Pentagon said Sunday. In a phone call with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Austin reiterated the US’s commitment to take “every possible” step to defend Israel, the Pentagon said in a stateme...
Annapolis, United States – AFP The United States will not tolerate attacks on American troops in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday, after rocket fire in Iraq wounded seven US personnel. The Monday attack was the third in just over three weeks on Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, which hosts American […]
Jerusalem – AFP Ignoring warnings by top US officials, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that more troops would “enter Rafah” as military operations intensify in Gaza’s far-southern city. The operation in Rafah “will continue as additional forces will enter” the area, Gallant said, a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant spoke by phone Sunday about talks between Israel and Hamas on a prisoner deal that would lead to a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Austin and Gallant exchanged views on humanitarian assistance efforts and the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Pentagon [...
