Special to WorldTribune.com Hizbullah’s military commander, a main suspect in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, Arab media reported on May 12. Mustafa Badr al-Din died after what was called “a major explosion” at a Hizbullah facility near the Damascus airport. Israel Defense Forces […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel’s efforts to draft Orthodox Jewish students for the military have fallen short. A government panel reported a 39 percent increase in the draft of so-called ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, recruits in 2013. But the committee said the increase fell far short of government plans for massive enlistment from the fastest […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has detailed an air reconnaissance unit that approves strikes in urban areas. The Israel Air Force has provided a glimpse of the Flying Camel Squadron, an air group that oversees and approves targets in urban areas, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The squadron is said to have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israel’s military has developed a range of systems to warn civilians in enemy territory of an attack, a report said. The Gatestone Institute asserted that Israel’s military deployed communications that warned residents of the Gaza Strip of impending air and artillery attacks during the war with Hamas in July. Analyst […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has been authorized to launch the recruitment of thousands of Christian Arabs. Until now, Christians volunteered for the military in a move that exposed them to a backlash by their Muslim neighbors. “Under these new arrangements, they will no longer have to submit their own enlistment request […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — The Israeli military said the Navy has concluded a curriculum for advanced submarine training. The military said the course, which would use digital simulators, was meant to prepare Navy crews for the new Dolphin-class submarines from Germany. “These new submarines have new systems and therefore new capabilities,” the Navy […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel and Syria have been exchanging fire along the Golan Heights, mostly controlled by Syrian rebels. On March 19, the Israel Air Force, in its biggest operation of the three-year civil war, attacked several Syrian military targets around Quneitra after a bomb injured four Israeli soldiers on the Golan. […]