Six wounded Syrian rebels who were treated in an Israeli hospital after being wounded in their country\’s civil war were repatriated.
A fence made of chain links and rusted barbed wire once was enough to separate the Golan Heights from Syria. That\’s no longer the case.
Israel notified the Pentagon that Syria was preparing a chemical believed to be deadly sarin gas and loading it into dozens of 500-pound bombs destined for airplanes.
Israel will erect a security fence along its border with Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Syrian President Bashar Assad responded to past warnings about the security of chemical weapons by taking steps to keep them out of the hands of militants, Israel\’s vice prime minister Moshe Yaalon said on Wednesday.
Three mortar shells were fired from Syria into northern Israel.
Syrian regime officials reportedly are setting up escape and defection routes.
The escalating violence in Syria shows the urgent need for the international community to take bolder steps, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a news conference in Istanbul on Friday.
Syria is in a state of civil war with more than 4,000 dead and increasing numbers of soldiers taking up arms against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the top U.N. human rights official said Thursday.
At the Passover seder next Wednesday evening, our children will recite the traditional question, “How is this night different from all other nights?” But the adults at the table are the ones who appreciate how this night really is different — not only from the rest of the year, but from the Passover seders of the past. As I started writing my third novel about Jewish spies during the Civil War, I began to wonder if American Jews had ever sat down at a seder where every part of the meal was served by slaves. As I discovered in my research, they did.
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