Middle East


  • Israel: One dead, over 30 wounded in Glilot truck ramming

    October 26, 2024

    Some 33 people were wounded to various degrees, with one succumbing to his wounds after a truck rammed into a bus stop near Glilot in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported on Sunday. Later on Sunday, Israeli media reports identified the truck driver to be Rami Nasrallah Nator, an ...

  • Israeli Air Force strikes military installations, air defense systems and missile manufacturing facilities in Iran

    October 26, 2024

    About 900 miles from Israel, in the early hours of Saturday, precisely 25 days after Iran’s ballistic missile attack, reports of explosions in Iran began to emerge at 2:00 AM, signaling the start of Israel’s counterattack. For over three intense hours, across three separate waves, dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets and aircraft targeted military ...

  • Israel: 3 IDF personnel killed in explosion in northern Gaza

    October 26, 2024

    Capt. Barak Israel Sagan was killed in action on Friday, October 25, 2024, while fighting in northern Gaza. Sagan, 22, from Petah Tikva, served as a platoon commander in the Tank Commanders Course in Battalion 196, “Bnei Or” Brigade (460). He died alongside two of his trainees, Sgt. Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia and Sgt. Ido Ben Zvi. ...

  • Iran: 10 border guards killed in terrorist attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province

    October 26, 2024

    In a tragic incident on Saturday, 10 police officers and soldiers were martyred during an armed clash with assailants in Taftan County in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan. The confrontation unfolded when a police patrol came under attack by unidentified gunmen, leading to intense fighting and the loss of multiple lives among the patrol personnel. ...

  • Terror Watch: It’s Time to Rethink Our Relationship With Qatar

    October 24, 2024

    As the horrific scenes of the terrorist Hamas attack on Israel played out on social media, with videos of mutilated corpses, gang rapes and abductions, Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh—safe and likely in his penthouse hideaway in Doha—celebrated and prayed over the successful massacre of over 1,200 people. The Qatari Foreign Ministry said it held Israel “solely ...

  • Israel: Explosive device found beneath car in Be’er Ya’acov, bomb squad defuses device

    October 20, 2024

    An explosive device was discovered under a parked car on a main street in Be’er Ya’acov in central Israel, Walla reported on Wednesday morning. Initial investigations raised suspicion that the explosive device was related to criminal disputes involving the car owner’s partner. Police were called to the scene, and a bomb squad managed to defuse the ...

  • The new front against Iran and its proxies: Underwater

    October 20, 2024

    Israel and Iran have been clashing directly and through the Islamic republic’s proxies over the past year. These confrontations occur in the air, on land, at sea, and even in the cyber front, often unnoticed by those not directly involved. One surprising, not very central, front operates far from daylight: underwater. This new front offers with ...

  • Israel: 401st Brigade commander Col. Ehsan Daxa killed in northern Gaza

    October 20, 2024

    The commander of the IDF’s 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daxa, was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the military announced on Sunday evening. Col. Daxa was 41 years old and came from Daliyat al-Karmel, the largest Druze community in Israel. According to a Walla report, Col. Daxa was killed in combat after his tank ...

  • Israel: Hezbollah’s new tactic behind attack on Netanyahu residence

    October 19, 2024

    Hezbollah is entering a “new and advanced phase of confrontation” with Israel, the Lebanese news agency Nour News, affiliated with the terrorist group, announced Friday. The escalation became evident overnight, particularly after a drone strike targeting the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea on Saturday morning. Hezbollah, which reportedly has more than 1,000 drones ...

  • Israel: Police, Shin Bet thwart terrorist plot to attack hostage protest in Tel Aviv

    October 18, 2024

    Israel Police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) thwarted the plans of a 22-year-old terrorist, a resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, who planned to carry out terror attacks during protests calling for the return of the hostages in Tel Aviv, among other locations, police announced on Friday. The Shin Bet investigation ...

  • Gaza Strip: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Rafah

    October 17, 2024

    Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by the IDF in Tel Sultan in Rafah on Wednesday in an unplanned operation, sources close to the matter confirmed to The Jerusalem Post Thursday evening, several hours after rumors arose that he had been killed earlier Thursday. Shortly after, around 7:45 p.m., confirmations came out from the IDF, Shin ...

  • German UNIFIL ship downs drone off Lebanese coast

    October 17, 2024

    A German Navy warship participating in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has downed a drone off Lebanon’s coast, a military spokesman told dpa on Thursday. The Ludwigshafen am Rhein corvette repelled an approaching drone at around 7 am (0400 GMT), said the spokesman for Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr. The drone was reportedly ...

  • Israel: Tel Aviv suicide bombing attempt in August was overseen by Hamas in Turkey

    October 16, 2024

    An attempted suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv several months ago was planned and carried out under the supervision of the Hamas terror group’s headquarters in Turkey, the Shin Bet and Israel Police said on Tuesday. In a joint statement, the two agencies said they arrested and charged eight people accused of planning and carrying out ...

  • Syria: 3 members of Damascus government killed, injured in rural Daraa

    October 14, 2024

    Two members of the Damascus government forces were killed, and another was injured with varying degrees of wounds, following the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown individuals near the town of Busra al-Harir in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that two soldiers from Damascus government ...

  • How Hezbollah’s Mirsad-1 drone breached Israeli defenses in Binyamina

    October 13, 2024

    Hezbollah’s drone strike near Binyamina on Sunday, which left 67 people wounded, showcases the growing threat posed by drones in modern warfare. The drone used in this attack is believed to be the Mirsad-1, a drone that Hezbollah has deployed for over two decades, originating from Iranian designs. The Mirsad-1, as noted by experts from the ...

  • Iraqi Counter-Terrorism forces arrest three terrorists, destroy multiple hideouts

    October 12, 2024

    On Saturday, Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) announced that it had carried out several operations resulting in the arrest of terrorists and the destruction of numerous hideouts across different regions of the country. In a statement, CTS detailed that, in coordination with the Kurdistan Region’s Asayish Operations Directorate, two terrorists were captured in Al-Sulaymaniyah governorate. The statement ...

  • UNIFIL: Two peacekeepers injured after two explosions close to an observation tower in Naqoura

    October 11, 2024

    This morning, UNIFIL’s Naqoura headquarters was affected by explosions for the second time in the last 48 hours. Two peacekeepers were injured after two explosions occurred close to an observation tower. One injured peacekeeper was taken to a hospital in Tyre, while the second is being treated in Naqoura. Today, several T-walls at our UN position ...

  • Israel: 3 Israeli reserve soldiers killed by roadside IED in northern Gaza

    October 11, 2024

    Three Israeli reserve soldiers were killed in Gaza on Thursday when their Humvee drove over a roadside bomb and exploded, the IDF stated. Their death came amid a renewed push by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip. All three soldiers were part of the 5460th support unit of the 460th Brigade and were killed during ...