Topic: Israel

Two Gaza militants were killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday, Palestinian medics said, with Israel saying one of them had planned a deadly bombing in Eilat in 2007.The two men had also been planning another attack on southern Israel by infiltrating ...

Israel kills top militants in Gaza base attack

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing a commander of the Palestinian faction and four of its munitions experts, officials on both sides said.The strike in Rafah, a town in ...

Israel police arrest man opposed to prisoner swap

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police Friday arrested a man suspected of defacing a memorial to assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in an apparent protest against an impending Palestinian prisoner swap.A police spokesman said the man, whom he declined to name, was the ...
Israel's top military chief has warned Gaza militants not to "test" Israel's strength as troops and police remained on high alert on Wednesday over warnings of a planned attack from Sinai."Hamas and other terrorist organisations in Gaza must know that they are ...

Iran condemns 'Israel spy' to death

Iran on Sunday sentenced to death a man accused of playing a key role in the 2010 murder of a top nuclear scientist and of spying for Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported."The sentence to execute the terrorist Majid Jamali Fashi ...

US condemns 'terrorist' attacks on Israel

The United States pressed Egypt Thursday to follow through on promises to ensure security in the Sinai following a string of attacks in southern Israel said to have been staged from the desert region.The White House denounced the attacks, which left seven ...

Former CIA official sees terrorism-cyber parallels

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Different wars for different times. Cofer Black, a former top CIA counterterrorism official, said on Wednesday he sees parallels between the terrorism threat that emerged before the September 11 attacks a decade ago and the emerging cyber threat ...

Al-Qaeda names Zawahiri to succeed bin Laden

Al-Qaeda on Thursday named Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed slain leader Osama bin Laden and vowed no let-up in its deadly "jihad" against arch-foes the United States and Israel.The United States immediately dismissed the appointment saying Zawahiri, the group's long-time number ...

Israel ministers slam Rafah reopening

Israeli ministers on Sunday slammed Egypt's decision to reopen its Rafah border crossing with Egypt, warning that terror groups would be able to move weapons and people freely through the crossing.Israel has warned that reopening the crossing, which Egypt closed to almost ...
Israel on Monday hailed the assassination of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the hands of US forces in Pakistan as a "victory for justice.""This is an historic day for the United States of America and for all the countries engaged in ...
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