Turkey deploys warships and air defense systems to Libya: LNA

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:00 P.M.) – The Libyan National Army (LNA) announced that Turkey had deployed two Turkish warships, anti-aircraft missiles and air defense systems to the capital city of Tripoli. In addition to this accusation, the LNA said the Turkish military sent at least 3,000 Syrian militants to Libya since late December. “The number of […]

Trump’s Middle East peace plan has 99 problems, but Israeli engineers say a tunnel ain’t one

Josefin Dolsten January 29, 2020 (JTA) — President Donald Trump’s long-awaited peace plan has been met with plenty of skepticism since its release on Tuesday. Could Trump actually be the one to settle a decades old conflict where so many other American presidents have failed, with a plan that was devised without consulting the Palestinians? […]

Abbas ‘discouraged,’ isolated as Arab countries refuse to join his rejectionist stance

Majority of Arab world’s non-condemnation of the Trump peace plan shows PA is more isolated than it thought. By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas feels very let down with the positions that most of the Arab world have taken regarding the American peace proposal unveiled Tuesday by President Donald […]

Iran’s Quds Force vows to oppose Trump’s ‘Deal of Century’

Iran monitors Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s work with Hamas and response to Trump in Gaza and West Bank. SETH J. FRANTZMAN JANUARY 30, 2020 12:24 Palestinian Islamic Jihad is seeking to play a major role against US President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” At the same time the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force has […]

Warplanes kill 10, strike hospital in Syrian offensive

Published: 01.30.20 , 12:56 Warplanes struck a town in a rebel-held enclave in northwestern Syria, killing at least 10 people, including some who were fleeing the attack, opposition activists and a rescue service said Thursday. The attack, believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes backing a Syrian government offensive, also put a local […]

Israeli freed from Russian jail reunited with her mother in Moscow

Naama Issachar set to return to Israel with PM, who is in Russian capital for talks with Putin on U.S. plan for Mideast peace; Israeli source says president issued pardon for Issachar as ‘way of paying tribute to Netanyahu’ Updated: 01.30.20 , 12:21 An Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on drug charges was reunited with […]

Netanyahu thanks Putin for ‘Naama’s quick pardon’

Netanyahu thanks Putin for ‘Naama’s quick pardon’ Prime Minister meets Russian President who signed Naama Issachar’s pardon request, expected to return with Netanyahu on his plane to Israel.   Yoni Kempinski, Moscow, 30/01/20 11:22   Netanyahu and Putin Yoni Kempinski   In Moscow, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vlodymyr Putin meet this morning […]

Israeli technology may stop coronavirus

  Israeli technology may stop coronavirus Israeli company Sonova develops anti-viral face masks that could prevent spread of coronavirus.   ILTV, 30/01/20 11:40   Microscopic view of Coronavirus, a pathogen that attacks respiratory tract iStock [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXBro6Yr6E?autohide=1&rel=0] Tags:Coronavirus, ILTV  

Iranian animation group releases video depicting countless coffins of American soldiers

Iranian animation group releases video depicting countless coffins of American soldiers Fantasy ‘aftermath’ of Iranian attack on Ayn Al-Asad airbase ends with words: ‘They got a slap in the face that night.’   Mordechai Sones, 30/01/20 09:35   U.S. coffins iStock [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRlVDqD_mQ?autohide=1&rel=0] An Iranian animation group called SSAFF uploaded an animated video titled “Ayn Assad” […]

France to send warships to Mediterranean to counter Turkey, Greek PM approves

Tommy Hilton, Al Arabiya English Thursday, 30 January 2020 France is to send war frigates to the eastern Mediterranean to oppose Turkey’s recent assertion in the region, a decision that has been welcomed by Greece’s prime minister, according to the Guardian on Wednesday. Turkey is currently in a standoff with neighbors Greece and Cyprus over […]

The Israeli Army Is Unprepared for a Ground War with Iran and Hezbollah

January 28, 2020 If Israel has to go to war tomorrow against Iran or its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, there’s a problem. The Israeli mechanized division that would defend Israel’s northern border, or enter Syria or Lebanon to eject Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, are in bad shape. If Israel has to go to war tomorrow against Iran […]

Israel postpones move to annex large parts of West Bank

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has postponed a move to annex large parts of the West Bank, a government minister said Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to quickly act on the Trump administration’s Mideast plan despite fierce Palestinian opposition. Netanyahu had said the Cabinet would vote Sunday on extending Israeli sovereignty to […]