search
drone strikes
In this Sept. 9, 2019 photo, Ariel Gomez, a systems engineer at Israel Aerospace Industries, works on the Popstar system at Israel Aerospace Industries, in the town of Yehud. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
September 26, 2019, 1:33 pm
As attack drones multiply, Israeli firms develop defenses
One of the pioneers of UAV warfare, Israel is now on the front lines of an arms race to protect against attacks by unmanned aircraft
By Ilan Ben Zion
Screen grab from video said to show explosions in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2019 (Twitter)
September 14, 2019, 8:58 am
Drone attacks strike major Saudi oilfield, processing facility
No immediate claim of responsibility for strikes, which come after previous attacks by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis and amid US-Iran tensions over the unraveling nuke deal
By Jon Gambrell
Israel Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)
September 1, 2019, 9:33 am
FM warns Nasrallah will be remembered as ‘destroyer of Lebanon’ if he attacks
In threat following fiery speech by Hezbollah leader amid skyrocketing tensions, Israel Katz calls terror chief an ‘Iranian puppet’
By TOI staff and Agencies
A speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on August 31, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 31, 2019, 10:26 pm
Nasrallah says response to drone attack ‘decided,’ Israel ‘must pay a price’
Hezbollah chief also denies his terror group has precision missile factories, calling claims ‘lies’ to justify Israeli aggression
By Agencies and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
August 30, 2019, 10:08 pm
Netanyahu says he’s doing everything to defend Israel, including ‘in Iraq’
PM’s comment comes after Iraqi government accuses Jerusalem of attack on powerful Iran-backed paramilitary force in its territory
By TOI staff
In this photo from August 12, 2019, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)
August 29, 2019, 7:15 pm
Iraq accuses Israel of string of attacks on paramilitary bases
In censuring Bahrain for defending strikes, Baghdad says it believes ‘Zionist enemy’ behind explosions at bases housing Iran-backed fighters
By TOI staff and AFP
ILLUSTRATIVE -- In this July 11, 2018 file photo, a drone equipped with a thermal camera flies over the plants at the Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources' Jennings Environmental Education Center on July 11, 2018 in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
August 28, 2019, 2:48 pm
Israeli firms develop systems capable of controlling enemy drones
Technology can be used to thwart attacks and gather information about UAVs; several drone-related strikes have been reported in recent days
By TOI staff
A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen amid other damage inside the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
August 27, 2019, 1:46 pm
Nasrallah is lying about Israeli drones in Beirut; Lebanon must urgently wise up
Any terrorist knows Israeli drones don’t look or operate like the two in Beirut, and any child knows the result would have been very different if Israel had really wanted to attack
By Avi Issacharoff
Lebanese military intelligence inspects the scene where two drones came down in the vicinity of a Hezbollah media center in the south of the capital Beirut, August 25, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 27, 2019, 4:36 am
Hezbollah says explosives found in drone that crashed in Beirut
Terror group claims UAV recovered near its media headquarters was attempting an attack, carried 11-pound bomb
By AFP and TOI staff
Farmers work in the plain of Marjayoun on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Khiam, opposite the Israeli town of Metula, along the border with Israel, on August 26, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
August 26, 2019, 11:56 pm
UN urges restraint as Lebanon set to file complaint alleging Israeli violations
As tensions spike between Jerusalem and Beirut following drone strike on Hezbollah stronghold, Hariri tells envoys of Security Council members: ‘Israel must be held responsible’
By AFP and TOI staff
This picture taken on August 25, 2019 from the Israeli side of the Golan Heights shows self-propelled artillery guns positioned along the border with Syria. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
August 26, 2019, 10:47 pm
Israel will defend itself ‘by any means,’ PM says amid fears of border skirmish
As tensions skyrocket following several strikes on Tehran-related targets that are blamed on Israel, cabinet minister says some of the attacks ‘aren’t ours’
By Michael Bachner
Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa speaks with the Times of Israel on the sidelines of the Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, on June 26, 2019. (Courtesy)
August 26, 2019, 9:33 pm
Appearing to back Israel, Bahrain says strikes on Iran targets ‘self defense’
‘Iran is the one who has declared a war on us,’ FM Khalifa tweets after Lebanese, Iraqi officials say Jewish state has opened war
By TOI staff
Mourners hold a banner with Arabic that reads, "Masses of the Popular Mobilization Forces chant death to America, death to Israel" during the funeral procession of Abu Ali al-Dabi, a fighter of the Popular Mobilization Forces, who was killed in a drone attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, August 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)
August 26, 2019, 6:52 pm
Iraq begins probe into deadly drone attack blamed on Israel
Paramilitary force has already accused Jewish state of strike near border, but Baghdad’s military says investigation is ongoing
By AFP and TOI staff
An Israeli military vehicle patrols on the Israeli-Lebanese border near the village of Ghajar on August 26, 2019. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)
August 26, 2019, 6:35 pm
As war fears skyrocket, Netanyahu orders rare security briefing for rival Gantz
Prime minister’s advisers told to update Blue and White head on latest tensions, sparking speculation over significance of move
By Michael Bachner
Lebanese military intelligence inspects the scene where two drones came down in the vicinity of a Hezbollah media center in the south of the capital Beirut, August 25, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 25, 2019, 8:37 pm
From Persian Gulf to Israel, a drone war takes flight in Mideast
Aerial campaigns spreading across region, risking a wide-scale war that most parties do not want
By Jon Gambrell, Josef Federman and Zeina Karam
Load More