Conflict Between Israel And Syria

IDF shoots suspect attempting to break into military post in southern Syria

On Sunday evening, troops from the 2nd "Carmeli" Brigade, who were manning outposts in the Syrian buffer zone, spotted a suspect approaching the post between the villages of Hader and Kuneitra.

Soldiers of Israel's artillery unit take part in a drill at the military base of Har Dov on Mount Hermon, a strategic and fortified outpost at the crossroads between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, in the annexed Golan Heights on August 28, 2023.
Jonathan Spyer

Jonathan Spyer: A closer look at Syria's current situation

 A plane carrying Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian lands in Damascus International Airport, in Damascus, Syria March 23, 2022.

Syria's foreign ministry: Israeli raids on airport amount to a 'war crime'

A man is silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter and a Facebook logo

Syrian fluke in translation on Facebook: 'Our name is s***'


Tensions with Assad regime rise following mortars and air strikes

IDF’s policy is to retaliate to every case of Syrian fire into Israeli territory, whether stray or deliberate.

Mortar shells land on Golan Heights (Illustration)

IDF says Syria fired missiles at its jets, but denies claim aircraft was downed

IDF issues rare response to foreign report, saying Syrian missile were nowhere near vicinity of Israeli aircraft.

IAF fighter jet during the Red Flag joint exercise at Nellis air force base in Nevada

'Iran, aided by proxy terrorist groups, biggest existential threat to Israel'

Terrorism wave in Jerusalem on the decline, says Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee chair.

Iran launches missile from undisclosed location

Israel’s virtual security zone

A working relationship with rebels on the other side of the Golan Heights has kept the border with Syria quiet.

An IDF soldier stands atop a tank near Alonei Habashan on the Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria

Major escalation in Syria ahead of planned cease-fire

At a security conference in Munich, US Secretary of State John Kerry repeated his belief that the Syrian conflict has no true military solution.

A militiaman of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Tel Tawil village, northeast Syria, fires an anti-aircraft weapon in the direction of Islamic State fighters

Syrian opposition: IAF struck Hezbollah, regime targets near Syria-Lebanon border

The sources claimed that the attack killed 13 Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters.

An IAF F-15I fighter jet

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The Jerusalem Post

Grapevine:The price of admission

THE HIGH Holy Day period is when many synagogues make their money for the year by selling seats. In fact, there are some synagogues where anyone without a ticket signifying that their seat has been paid for cannot get in.

Mahane Yehuda shuk

Conflict in the psyche

Psychologist Alon Gratch attempts to analyze the Israeli mind – and finds it seriously lacking

Inside the mind

Another tack: The wrong end of a municipal drain-pipe

Eight doctors assessed that wounds Badawi sustained in the first flog-gest had not yet sufficiently healed to allow for 50 more whacks to gash his skin again.

IMPRISONED AND flogged blogger Raif Badawi: his cyber-activity was deemed apostasy.