Middle East / Levant

Hamas didn't tell the workers, who went unpaid for five months,that the Qatari grant didn’t have anything to do with employees’ salaries.

"The zones are necessary from the point of view of ending warfare, but at the same time it is impermissible to see the de-escalation zones turning into zones of influence of foreign states."

Let's watch the effect of taxes from the deal on Israel's own energy market. At the moment, a gallon of gas still costs Israeli motorists around $6.8 – most of which are taxes.

Israel has provided drone strikes and shelling with high-precision missiles on ISIS targets during defensive and offensive rebel operations.

The meeting in Amman was with Crown Prince Hassan, since King Abdullah was out of the country.

Mr. Zarif, do you recognize this? You should. It's yours. You can take back with you a message to the tyrants of Tehran: Do not test Israel's resolve.

"Anyone preparing 100,000 rockets in Lebanon is not planning to use them to deliver flowers."

“I will reiterate our determination to defend ourselves by ourselves - without any restrictions - against any threat.”

"We are engaging with the governments of both Lebanon and Israel to ensure Lebanon’s southern border remains calm," Sec'y Tillerson said.

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said his country was committed to preserving calm on its southern border with Israel.

The agents, according to the report, are positioned by the border for routine observations of the combat operations involving the Syrian opposition forces, ISIS, the Iranian proxy militias and the Syrian regime.

The new system is designed to fight against low-altitude threats, including incoming missiles.

The $1.275 billion per year represents a $275 million annual increase over the previous MOU.

Firouzabadi's comments followed news that Iranian-Canadian environmentalist Kavous Seyed Emami had died in Iranian custody.

“Maneuvers have focused on ways to breach electronic sensors, surveillance cameras and the harmonization between ground advancement and the use of unmanned drones."

The man was sent by Hezbollah, who were apparently impressed by his successful infiltration last year.

Most of the terrorists in question had been released in the Shalit deal and were involved in attacks that claimed Israeli lives.

In 1998, when it was first produced, the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon cost $18.8 million, or $27.5 million in 2018 value.

“I don't know frankly if we are going to even have talks, we will see what happens, but I think it is very foolish for the Palestinians and I also think it would be very foolish for the Israelis if they don't make a deal."

“Hezbollah and Iran are trying to entrench themselves in the area ... [But we] sent a clear message to our enemies; we’re determined to defend our sovereignty and respond with force and wisdom to any threat.”

Russian Ambassador to Iran said a visiting delegation is discussing "certain practical aspects of the project to reconfigure the Fordow reactor."

"There are long-range surface-to-air missiles like the SA5, which, although they are outdated and stationary launch pads, can intercept planes deep inside Israel."

Altogether, the Syrian Observatory reported three waves of Israeli bombardments, under anti-aircraft fire.

The Israeli Air Force on Saturday launched an attack on the Syrian Air Force's Tiyas Military Airbase, a.k.a. T-4 Airbase, west of the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmor), destroying the main observation tower, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Iran's calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project its power and dominance, places all the people of the region -- from Yemen to Lebanon -- at risk."

"I have been warning for some time about the dangers of Iran’s military entrenchment in Syria. Iran seeks to use Syrian territory to attack Israel for its professed goal of destroying Israel."

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Later, also in response to the intercepted Iranian drone, Israeli Air Force aircraft struck three aerial defense batteries and four other Iranian targets in Syria.

Sending in the drone may have been a planned Iranian provocation, expecting that shooting this many rockets at the incoming Israeli planes would hit at least one.

Syrian forces opened fire on an IDF drone flying over the Golan Heights.