Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Israel Air Force has conducted another attack on a shipment of advanced missiles to Syria. Western diplomatic sources said Israel sent nearly a dozen F-15 and F-16 fighter-jets to destroy Iranian-origin missiles that arrived in Damascus. The sources said the attack took place on May 3 when warplanes fired […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Islamist militias have renewed rocket fire from Egypt into Israel. Officials said Islamist gunners launched three Soviet-origin rockets from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula toward the southern Israeli port city of Eilat. On April 17, two of the BM-21 Grad rockets landed in a residential area of Eilat, but there were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has determined that the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah acquired the extended-range Scud D ballistic missile from Syria. A senior Israeli official asserted that Hizbullah obtained an unspecified number of Scud Ds from Syrian military arsenals. Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry’s Political-Military Directorate, said the Scud D contained a […]