Israel & The Region

Diplomacy, defense, politics, Middle East affairs

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April 26, 2013
7:42 pm

A victim of an alleged chemical attack in Jobar, Syria, in April. (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

US lawmakers: Syria chem warning may force us to act

Legislators say failure to respond would have severe implications, potentially emboldening rivals like North Korea and Iran

April 26, 2013
7:30 pm

The entrance to the 2,000-year-old Djerba synagogue (photo credit: CC BY upyernoz/Flikr)

Thousands of Jews reach Djerba for pilgrimage

Visitors, among them several Israeli citizens, receive blessing from rabbi at oldest African synagogue as police up security

By Yifa Yaakov and JTA

April 26, 2013
7:22 pm

A victim of an alleged chemical weapons attack is treated by doctors in Aleppo, Syria, in March (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Turkey: Chemical arms use would escalate Syria crisis

From the web Ankara says Assad may have taken the situation to ‘another level,’ but remains wary of military intervention, Reuters reports

April 26, 2013
6:45 pm

Times Square in New York. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had planned to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square, officials say (photo credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew)

‘Boston bombers ran out of gas for NYC attack’

Prosecutors building case to demand death penalty for surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

April 26, 2013
5:22 pm

British Mandate boss said Jews were ‘like Nazis’

High Commissioner of Palestine claimed Jewish fighters had ‘all the equipment of a totalitarian regime,’ records show

April 26, 2013
4:55 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron (screen capture: Youtube/Channel4News)

Cameron says deployment of troops to Syria ‘unlikely’

British PM says UK should strengthen opposition forces amid ‘limited but growing’ evidence Assad’s troops used chemical weapons

By Adiv Sterman

April 26, 2013
4:20 pm

Israeli Air Force F-16B jets, June 2011 (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Action in the north

Washington acknowledges the use of chemical weapons in Syria; a drone from Lebanon is shot down off the coast of Haifa

By Aaron Kalman

April 26, 2013
4:12 pm

Jordanians protest proposed US troop deployment

Demonstrators in Amman warn that American soldiers’ presence may be first step towards involvement in Syrian civil war

April 26, 2013
3:50 pm

Bulgarian investigators stage a reenactment of the bus bombing in July 2012 that killed five Israeli tourists at the Burgas airport, on Friday, April 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Valentina Petrova)

Bulgaria re-enacts airport bus bombing

Experiment aims at providing more insight on attack that killed five Israeli tourists

April 26, 2013
2:54 pm

Birmingham, England skyline (photo credit: Jimmy Guano/Wikimedia Commons)

Court sentences UK terror plot leader to 18 years’ minimum

Judge says Irfan Naseer had the blessing of al-Qaeda, intended to further group’s interests

April 26, 2013
2:17 pm

File photo: Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags on the northern side of Israel's border with Lebanon (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash90/File)

Lebanese media report Israeli mock raids over south

IDF increasing its forces along border, according to reports, one day after UAV shot down off coast of Haifa

By Yoel Goldman

April 26, 2013
1:51 pm

Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (AP/Federal Bureau of Investigation/File)

Boston bomber moved from Beth Israel Hospital

Authorities transfer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to a federal medical detention center overnight

April 26, 2013
1:31 pm

The aftermath of rocket attacks in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Local Council of Barzeh)

Activists report heavy fighting in Damascus

Many ‘terrorists’ killed, state-run media claim, around capital’s northern neighborhoods

April 26, 2013
1:19 pm

Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded Damascus and its suburbs Tuesday April 2, as rebels in the northern city of Aleppo launched an operation that aims to free hundreds of political detainees from the city's central prison, activists said. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)

No good options for US in Syria

Arming rebels means aiding al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra; no-fly zone difficult to implement due to Assad’s air defenses

By Bradley Klapper and Donna Cassata

April 26, 2013
12:11 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu draws a red line for Iran's nuclear program during his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2012. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

Iran, not Israel, faces an existential threat, says top US analyst

Anthony Cordesman claims all of Islamic Republic’s population centers now within range of Israeli missiles with thermonuclear warheads