Day: January 2, 2022

Israel Destroys Old Syrian Ammunition Discovered in Secret Golan Heights Bunker

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Israel on Sunday destroyed hundreds of kilograms of Syrian ammunition from the 1967 Six-Day War that was discovered in a bunker in the Golan Heights. “The explosion was carried out for safety reasons. During the detonation surrounding areas and roads in the Golan Heights were closed off,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The […]

Putin and Erdogan vow to improve ties after tensions

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TURKEY Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 5, 2020. File Photo: AFP Also in Turkey Indictment targets mullahs in Istanbul for using Kurdish terms ‘adopted’ by PKK Armenia to lift embargo on Turkish goods from January Turkish crisis turns books into vanishing luxuries […]

Fearing retaliatory attacks on anniversary of Soleimani’s death | Coalition Forces and Maghawir Al-Thawra put on high alert in Al-Tanaf base

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On Jan 2, 2022 Reliable sources have informed SOHR that the International Coalition Forces stationed in Al-Tanaf base at Iraq-Jordan-Syria borders triangle have instructed their loyal Maghawir Al-Thawra faction to be put on high alert and deployed in the perimeter of the base which is located at the 55-kilometre zone in the Syrian desert, fearing retaliatory […]

Lebanese Christian leader: Our alliance with Hezbollah no longer working

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Televised speech by Free Patriotic Movement head Bassil signals unprecedented level of frustration with group, suggests 2006 alliance credited with maintaining peace in jeopardy By Sarah El Deeb Today, 8:29 pm BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah […]

Don’t buy Hamas’ ‘bad weather’ excuse for rockets – analysis

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Just six months after a costly operation, deterrence has once again been lost ANNA AHRONHEIMPublished: JANUARY 2, 2022 15:43 It wasn’t lightning that led to two rockets being fired toward central Israel just a few hours into the new year. That excuse has been used and abused enough already. Hamas has used the excuse of […]

Iran, Hezbollah Bolster Presence, Weapon Shipments Near Damascus, Syrian War Monitor Says

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Hezbollah are turning an old military base south of Damascus into a drone training and operations center to protect from Israeli strikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Hezbollah and Iranian forces in Syria have boosted their presence in areas south and west of the capital Damascus, an opposition war monitor reported on […]