JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will continue occupying Syria’s Golan Heights in the foreseeable future. His remarks came during a military assessment he held along with his defense minister, army chief of staff, and other officials on the peak of Hermon Mount (Jaba...
RIYADH/ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have condemned a decision by Israel to expand settlement building in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The UAE warned that the move will lead to increased tensions and an escalation in the region. In a statement issued by its Foreign Ministry, the decision [&h...
CAIRO (AA) – The Arab Parliament Saturday demanded international action to end Israel’s grab of Syrian territories. During a speech while presiding over a parliamentary session at the headquarters of the Arab League’s General Secretariat in Cairo, Muhammad Al-Yamahi, the president of the Arab Parliament, urged all Syrian parties to...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin says that Israel’s actions in Syria are unlikely to stabilize the situation amid its seizure of a demilitarized buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. “I have nothing to add to what has already been said. Of course, the strikes, the actions […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel claims it has destroyed as much as 80% of the military capabilities of Bashar al-Assad’s deposed regime. Army operations “have been completed, with 70-80% of Assad’s regime’s military capabilities destroyed,” according to Israeli Army Radio, which indicated that “350 Israeli warplanes carri...
The U.S. has defended Israel’s seizure of Syrian territory near the occupied Golan Heights. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller claims the takeover of a demilitarized buffer zone is a necessary defense measure against potential terrorist threats. Miller says the move is temporary to prevent a power vacuum in Syria that could attract terr...
BAMAKO, Mali (AA) – Transitional President Capt. Ibrahim Traore has dismissed Burkina Faso Prime’s Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and the government, according to a decree read out on state television. The decree said that “officials in the dissolved government will continue to perform their duties until a new gover...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the commencement of military exercises in the southern Golan Heights and northern Jordan Valley. In a statement, the Israeli army said: “In the coming hours, a military drill will begin in two separate areas in the northern Jordan Valley and the southern Golan Heights as part of […]...
The US Embassy in Beirut has urged American citizens in the country to prepare crisis plans and leave the country amid fears of an Israeli attack. Tension has escalated between Hezbollah and Israel following a missile attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in Israel-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday. While Israel blames Hezbollah for [&hell...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Lebanon has called for an international investigation into a strike that killed 12 people including children on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, warning against a large-scale retaliation. The Israeli military said that an Iranian-made rocket that Hezbollah group fired on Saturday hit a football field in Majdal Sha...
