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(COMBO) This combination of pictures shows Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) as they attend the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2018 in Munich, Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)
February 19, 2018, 11:25 am
Iran insists it has ‘no military bases in Syria’
FM Zarif denies presence of his country's soldiers on Syrian soil, accuses Israel of violating Syrian airspace
By Sue Surkes
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Maxim Shipenkov)
February 15, 2018, 10:59 am
Russian official: If Iran attacks Israel, we’ll stand with you
Moscow's deputy ambassador in Tel Aviv says while Israel was right to shoot down intruding drone, he doesn't buy IDF's assertion that Tehran was behind Saturday's launch
By Raphael Ahren
The Eitan drone, also known as the Heron TP flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Israel, March 7, 2007. (AP/Ariel Schalit/File)
November 26, 2017, 11:19 pm
Israel says it will ‘lend a hand’ in Egypt’s fight against Islamic State
Jerusalem already allows extra Egyptian forces in Sinai and, according to foreign reports, carries out its own drone strikes on terrorists there
By Judah Ari Gross
Footage from a video said to show bombs being dropped along the Lebanon-Syrian border by an attack drone belonging to the Hezbollah terror group. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 21, 2017, 5:44 pm
Hezbollah says it used drones to bomb Islamic State in Syria
Media outlet linked to terror group says unmanned craft struck jihadist targets during fighting along border
By TOI staff
Smoke rises after an airstrike in the Sinai city of Rafah as seen from Gaza on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)
April 10, 2017, 7:56 pm
Drone strike in southern Sinai said to kill one person
Raid comes hours after IS affiliate fires rocket into Negev; Israel on alert amid warnings of terror attacks from peninsula
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
File: An unmanned US Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night, on January 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
March 14, 2017, 11:41 pm
Trump okays CIA drone strikes in Middle East
Administration also working to loosen Obama-era rules that sought to limit civilian deaths in drone strikes
By AFP
Illustrative: Screenshot from an Islamic State video on Wednesday December 14, 2016, claiming a rocket attack on Israel two days earlier.
December 15, 2016, 1:35 am
IS in Sinai claims rocket attack on Israel that missed target
Terror group in Egypt says it launched two grad projectiles at crossing two days ago, hitting Egyptian territory; claimed IDF had bombed its positions in response
By Judah Ari Gross and Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative. Smoke rises after a house was blown up in a military operation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on November 20, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90/File)
December 14, 2016, 12:02 am
IS in Sinai: Israel conducted multiple airstrikes against us
Terror group in Egypt claims IDF bombed their positions; former Hamas member who joined Islamic State reportedly killed
By Judah Ari Gross and Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative: Smoke and fire following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces in the Islamic State-controlled Syrian city of Raqqa, on November 25, 2014. (AFP Photo/RMC/STR)
December 13, 2016, 11:34 pm
3 IS leaders with ties to Paris attacks killed in Syria drone strike
Pentagon says jihadists in Raqqa were plotting attacks against Western targets at time of raid
By AFP
Illustrative: Smoke rises following an explosion in Syria's Quneitra province as Syrian rebels clash with Assad regime forces, seen from the Golan Heights in 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
September 18, 2016, 12:21 am
Syrian soldier said killed by Israeli retaliatory fire on Golan
Syrian rights group, Hezbollah say IDF targeted artillery positions in Quneitra; several Syrian troops said wounded; IDF declines comment
By TOI staff
CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
September 12, 2016, 5:46 am
CIA Director John Brennan warns of Russian hacking
Without saying if Moscow hacked the DNC, US spy chief warns of 'what the Russians might be trying to do'
By AP
Two MZD-2 cluster bombs dropped from a Hezbollah drone near Aleppo, Syria, according to footage released on August 9, 2016. (Jawad Metni/DanChurchAid)
August 11, 2016, 1:43 am
Video appears to confirm use of attack drones by Hezbollah
Footage shows terror group dropping cluster bombs on Syria rebel positions from UAV, years after it first boasted of drone capability
By Judah Ari Gross
File: An unmanned US Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night, on January 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
August 7, 2016, 4:17 am
US discloses more conditions for lethal drone strikes
Presidential guidelines call for 'near certainty' about target's identity and that no harm will come to noncombatants
By Calvin Woodward
Smoke rises after an airstrike in the Sinai city of Rafah as seen from Gaza on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)
July 11, 2016, 1:44 pm
With Egypt’s blessing, Israel conducting drone strikes in Sinai — report
As Egyptian foreign minister visits Jerusalem, Bloomberg quotes former Israeli official on bombing runs against Islamists
By Judah Ari Gross and AP
Peace activists form a human chain on the street leading towards the US air base during the 'Stopp-Ramstein' campaign in Ramstein, Germany, Saturday June 11, 2016 (Oliver Dietze/dpa via AP)
June 11, 2016, 7:29 pm
Protests against drone strikes near US base in Germany
Thousands form human chain near Ramstein Air Base, which they say is used to control aircraft operating in Middle East
By AP
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