Month: May 2020

Netanyahu and Gantz’s parties have until 2 p.m. to make changes to several clauses flagged by High Court as problematic; Blue and White said to give up on expanded ‘Norwegian Law’ By TOI staff Today, 8:19 am 0 Edit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White were due to announce […]

Elan Carr says Washington will work with allies on ‘developing and driving Philo-Semitic narratives for their country’ Ron Kampeas5 May 2020, 2:43 am WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elan Carr, the State Department’s anti-Semitism monitor, wants to get people in other countries to love their Jews more as a means of countering anti-Semitism. In a press call […]

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has added another point of tension to an increasingly souring relationship between the United States and China. As the Trump administration fuels anti-Chinese sentiment, details in a reported internal government document reveal how the worst-case scenario looks like. China’s Ministry of State Security delivered to President Xi Jinping warnings of heightening anti-Chinese […]

Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps march in a parade in Tehran, Sept. 22, 2011. Photo: Reuters / Stringer / File. An overwhelming bipartisan majority of the US House of Representatives on Monday called for the extension of the United Nations arms embargo against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a letter to Secretary […]

Monday 04 May 2020 Syrian air defenses thwarted an Israeli missile attack on a research center and a military base in the northern province of Aleppo in the second such raid in less than a week, state media said on Monday. The Syrian army said in a statement that Israel hit military barracks in al-Safirah […]

2020-05-04 BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:15 P.M.) – A Russian publication reported this week that the Russian Armed Forces have deployed their Resonance radar system in an area near the Israeli border. According to the NZIV publication, the Russian Resonance radar was identified in two locations in the eastern Mediterranean region, including an area along the Israeli-Egyptian […]

Russian and American military face off in Northern Syria  Monday, May 4, 2020 11:00:00 AM     The Russian military did not let a US military convoy to enter the town of Qamishli in Northern Syria, Telegram-channel “Military Informant” reports. The post was published on the evening of May 2. The date of the incident […]

Russian Ambassador to Iraq Maksim Maksimov says Moscow is prepared to provide Baghdad with advanced S-400 air defense missile systems once the Arab country makes an official request for the military hardware. “The Russian side has, thus far, not received an official request in this regard. There is no doubt that recent developments have increased interest in [procurement […]

Iranian foreign ministry claims Germany banned Hezbollah terrorist group in order to settle ‘historical debt’ to ‘the Zionists’. 04/05/20 13:40 Iran on Monday charged that Germany is repaying a “historical debt” to Israel after Berlin banned the activities of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on its soil. Germany designated Hezbollah a “Shiite terrorist organisation” on Thursday as […]

News Desk2020-05-03     /* custom css */ .td_uid_4_5eafc5a282c87_rand.td-a-rec-img { text-align: left; } .td_uid_4_5eafc5a282c87_rand.td-a-rec-img img { margin: 0 auto 0 0; } BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:10 P.M.) – A Chinese news agency said the Russian military’s decision to intercept two U.S. aircraft along the Syrian coast would have ended differently if it was their air force […]