Day: June 4, 2025

Tensions rise in southern Syria: What’s next for Syria-Israel relations? – analysis

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Tensions flare as rockets from Syria prompt Israeli airstrikes, despite Syria’s new government seeking stability and rejecting hostile acts. By SETH J. FRANTZMANJUNE 4, 2025 10:16Updated: JUNE 4, 2025 11:20  Members of Syrian security forces stand guard at a damaged site, after Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, as reported […]

Iran seeks to help rebuild Lebanon, potentially strengthen Hezbollah – analysis

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This is an important meeting because it shows Iran is seeking to redouble efforts to involve itself in Lebanon after it saw setbacks last year in Israel’s war on Hezbollah and the fall of Assad. By SETH J. FRANTZMANJUNE 4, 2025 10:31Updated: JUNE 4, 2025 10:41  Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shakes hands with Lebanese Foreign Minister […]

Iran’s Khamenei rejects US nuclear deal proposal, vows to keep enriching uranium

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Senior Iranian official say Iran-based consortium ‘may warrant consideration,’ but anything outside borders ‘doomed to fail’; report suggests more talks this weekend By Agencies and ToI StaffToday, 10:25 am   In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with teachers, in […]

UN Security Council to Vote on Immediate, Unconditional, and Permanent Gaza Ceasefire

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By David Israel  – 8 Sivan 5785 – June 4, 2025 The ten elected members of the U.N. Security Council have called for a vote on Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding “an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza to be respected by all parties,” according to diplomats cited by Reuters. The draft resolution […]

Leading haredi rabbi calls to dissolve Knesset

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Yesh Atid to submit bill to dissolve the Knesset next week following Rabbi Dov Landau’s call to back such a bill in the wake of a failed meeting with MK Yuli Edelstein Israel National News   Jun 4, 2025, 9:03 AM (GMT+3) Yuli EdelsteinHaredimDraft LawRabbi Dov Lando   Rabbi Dov Landauspokesperson Rabbi Dov Landau, a prominent […]

Israel should attack Iran, even without US support, former NSC head says

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Yaakov Amidror, who led Israel’s National Security Council, said that Israel is capable of attacking Iran even without American support. By 103FMJUNE 4, 2025 08:23Updated: JUNE 4, 2025 10:51  An Iranian newspaper with a cover photo of US President Donald Trump and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is seen in Tehran, Iran, May 11, 2025.(photo credit: […]

Rockets fired from Syria for first time in a year; Israel holds Sharaa responsible

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IDF carries out airstrikes across southern Syria after two projectiles fired from 12 km inside northern neighbor; Houthi missile triggers sirens across central Israel; no injuries reported By Emanuel Fabian  and ToI StaffToday, 1:42 am Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa receives Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister in Damascus, Syria, on May 31, 2025. (SANA / AFP) Defense […]