Posts Tagged: Syria Hezbollah
Syrian Rebels Target Hezbollah
A string of bombings, rocket attacks, and assassination attempts has brought the Syrian civil war into Hezbollah's Lebanese stronghold. Hezbollah has found itself unable to keep...
Syrian City of Homs Flattened in Regime Battle Against Rebels
Jerusalem Post - AMMAN - Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces pounded Sunni Muslim rebels in the city of Homs with artillery and from the...
Former Mossad Chief: Israel Would Benefit from Fall of Assad
Ynet - Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan offered on Wednesday a strong rebuttal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that Israel must instill fear...
Report: Over 60 Shiites Killed by Syrian Rebels in Eastern Syria
Washington Post - BEIRUT — Syrian rebels have battled Shiites in a village in the country's east, killing over 60 people including civilians, activists said...
Lawmaker: Syrian Army Has Green Light to Attack Israel, Ready for ‘Open War’
Al Arabiya - The Syrian regime army has the green light to respond to any future Israeli attack without referring back to its "leadership," a...
Assad: We Have Already Received S-300 Shipment from Russia
JNS.org - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria "has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets," the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported. "The...
State Department Calls for Hezbollah to Withdraw from Syria
Jerusalem Post - The US State Department called on Lebanon's Hezbollah militia on Wednesday to withdraw its fighters from Syria immediately, saying their ...
Syria Rejects Ban Ki-moon Proposal for Chemical Weapons Team
Al Arabiya - Syria will not accept a chemical weapons team, as proposed by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, to probe the alleged use of...
Report: Israel Will Ask U.S. to Halt Syrian Weapons Transfers to Hezbollah
Israeli leaders intend to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to act militarily to stop Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on...
Top Israeli General: Assad Planning to Use Chemical Weapons Against Rebels
Israel's military intelligence chief says Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, is preparing to use chemical weapons. Speaking at a security conference in the coastal town of...
Report: Assad Ordered 2008 Killing of Hezbollah Terror Mastermind
A senior Hezbollah official killed in Damascus, Syria in 2008 was done so on orders of Bashar al-Assad, a senior Syrian opposition member has told...
Report: Defected Syrian Official Says Syrian ‘Research Facility’ Was Used to Manufacture Chemical Weapons
A senior Syrian officer who was involved with chemical weapons operations in the country, but has since defected, said that one of the sites reportedly...
Report: IDF Intelligence Chief Holds Secret Meetings With Pentagon Officials
Ynet - The US-based Al-Monitor reported Tuesday that IDF Intelligence Chief Maj-Gen. Aviv Kochavi traveled to Washington for closed-door consultations with American officials...
Report: Iran’s Military Capability “Dramatically” Reduced by Conflict in Syria
Iran's ability to retaliate for any strike on its nuclear facilities has been "dramatically" reduced by events in the region, an Israeli intelligence report has...
