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December 7, 2016

Israel approves armoured jeeps for PA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved the delivery of five armoured jeeps for the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces, with the vehicles transferred in...

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December 7, 2016

Syria: Israeli rockets hit near Damascus military base

A Syrian military source said Israeli rockets hit around the Mezzeh military airport near the Syrian capital Damascus at around 3am today. The source said the ground-to-ground rockets caused...

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December 7, 2016

MSF clinic closes due to Jordan closing border to Syrians

A clinic for war-wounded Syrians in northern Jordan is being forced to close just six months after Jordan shut its borders with Syria, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans...

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December 7, 2016

Russia loses colonel in Syria fighting

A Russian military officer in Aleppo has died of wounds sustained in a mortar attack carried out by the Syrian opposition to President Bashar Al-Assad and his regime, the...

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December 7, 2016

Lieberman: We knew of Iran’s links to German submarine company

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel knew about the relationship between Iran and the German company manufacturing submarines for the Israeli navy. Lieberman’s remarks came during a meeting...

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December 7, 2016

Turkish PM: Syrian crisis closer to being resolved

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the Syrian crisis looks closer to being settled today than ever before. Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with his Russian...

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December 7, 2016

Israeli army sirens heard near border with Lebanon

The Israeli army yesterday activated alert sirens in the Al-Abbasiyah, Wazzani area, south of Lebanon. The Lebanese news agency said the sirens were heard in conjunction with a series...

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December 7, 2016

Iraq: Army creeps deeper into Mosul

Iraqi army units launched fresh attacks towards the centre of Mosul yesterday in an offensive from the city’s southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle...

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December 7, 2016

UN: Legalising settlements ‘step towards annexation of West Bank’

United Nations envoy for the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov released a statement yesterday warning that Israel’s “formalisation law” which seeks to retrospectively legalise illegal outposts in the occupied West...

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December 7, 2016

MK penalised for voting against law legalising settlements

Likud member of Israel’s Knesset, Benny Begin, was suspended from a parliament committee yesterday for being the sole member of the coalition to vote against a bill which would...

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