Lebanese PM Saad Hariri heads to Saudi Arabia for first time since 2017 debacle

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 P.M.) – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is on the way to Riyadh this afternoon for a meeting with several Saudi officials, the premier’s office said on Thursday. Hariri will be meeting with several high ranking Saudi officials, including Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. This will be Hariri’s first official visit to […]

Egypt looks to Libya conflict for regional role

General Khalifa Haftar, who led Libyan military forces in eastern Libya for years, is set to take the Libyan capital and unify much of the country. Seth J. Frantzman April 17, 2019 02:53 For years, Egypt watched as conflict in Libya threatened to spread instability to the border. Now, General Khalifa Haftar – who led […]

The Annexation of the Settlements

On the eve of his re-election as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Israeli television that he intended to extend Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements, home to 450,000 residents. He made it clear that he was not considering annexing the entire West Bank, inhabited by two million Palestinians. He added: “I will not uproot anyone, […]

Next Israeli Government Could Soon Face New Iranian Terrorist Challenges

by Yaakov Lappin     Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran, Feb. 18, 2019. Photo: Khamenei.ir / Handout via Reuters. In Saturday’s early hours, when the attention of most Israelis was focused on politics and election-related matters, enormous blasts rocked a suspected Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory on the outskirts of the town […]

IDF general says Hezbollah still planning major attack despite tunnel operation

The new commander of the IDF’s Ground Forces says that the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah is still planning on carrying out a surprise invasion of Israel, despite its extensive network of cross-border tunnels having been destroyed by an Israeli operation late last year. “Hezbollah still has plans to that effect,” he tells the Ynet news […]

Turkish Newspaper Close To President Erdogan Calls To Form Joint Islamic Army To Fight Israel

On December 12, 2017, ahead of the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul,  the Turkish daily Yeni Şafak, which is close to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling AKP party, published an article  titled “A Call for Urgent Action,”[1] which also appeared on the paper’s website under the title “What […]

Pompeo is “Setting the Stage for a War with Iran”

Pompeo is “Setting the Stage for a War with Iran” 18 Apr in 6:00 The Real News     Colonel Larry Wilkerson criticized Washington’s policy Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested that the Trump administration would not rule out going to war with Iran even though there is no explicit authorization from […]

Kim-Putin summit could be imminent

The top U.S. envoy for North Korea will travel to Moscow this week for talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Tuesday — a sign that a meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future could be imminent, according to The Japan Times’ […]

Did Israel use the supersonic Rampage to strike Iranian targets in Syria?

Israel allegedly struck an Iranian missile factory in Syria’s Masyaf on Saturday. Anna Ahronheim April 18, 2019 12:23 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspects a missile at Israel Aerospace Industries.. (photo credit: KOBI GIDEON/GPO) Israel’s Air Force reportedly used the supersonic Rampage stand-off air-to-surface missiles for the first time during a strike on Iranian positions in […]

Kim Jong Un and Putin appear on course for summit as North Korea hedges its bets

By Simon Denyer and Anton Troianovski April 17 at 8:47 AM TOKYO — Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un may finally be ready to meet for the first time, as Russia seeks to extend its influence and North Korea tries to hedge its bets after the failed summit with President Trump. The potential of closer ties between Putin […]

Israeli official met Lebanese foreign minister in Moscow, report says

i24NEWS Latest Revision 18 April 2019, 05:34 AP Photo/Hussein Malla In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 photo, UN peacekeepers hold their flag while standing next to Hezbollah and Lebanese flags, at the site where Israeli excavators are working, near the southern border village of Mays al-Jabal, Lebanon ‘Israel does not view Lebanon as an enemy, […]

North Korea bars Pompeo from nuclear talks

Pyongyang no longer wants to see US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved in nuclear talks and calls for “someone more careful and mature in communication.” Kwon Jong Gun, a senior North Korean foreign ministry official, also told the official news agency that  that “no one can predict” the situation on the Korean peninsula if the United […]

New satellite images reveal deployment of Russian missile system in Syria

News Desk2019-04-18 BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:35 P.M.) – The Israel-based Image Satellite International group released new satellite images from the Russian Hmeimim Airbase in southwest Latakia this week. The ISI satellite images showed the deployment of the Russian Iskander (SS-26) missile system to the Hmeimim Airbase near the coastal city of Jableh. #NOW: an #SS26 #Iskander […]

North Korea rejects Pompeo from nuclear dialogue: KCNA

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea no longer wants U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved in nuclear talks, calling for someone who “is more careful and mature in communicating”, state media said on Thursday.The official KCNA news agency also said, quoting Kwon Jong Gun, a senior official at the North’s foreign ministry, that “no one […]