Tehrān :: Iran
| about 3 hours ago
Missile - Shamkhani Head of the armed forces' Center for Strategic Studies Ali Shamkhani said on Sunday that Iran's Sejil missile poses no threat for any country. Sejil is a 2,000-km range surface-to-surface missile which was newly test fired in Iran.
Tags: missiles, Iran, sejil missiles, armed forces, israel
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 13 hours ago
Compiled by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's National Security Council (NSC) and published in part by an Israeli newspaper on Sunday, the report argues for "paying the heavy price" of an accord with Syria -- the return of the occupied Golan Heights. A senior...
Tags: israel, military action, peace, Israeli, Iranian, Syria, Golan Heights, contingency plans
Jerusalem :: Israel
| about 14 hours ago
The National Insurance Institute today published its 2007 Poverty Report, which shows a slight decline in the prevalence of poverty across most measures examined. However, as the report refers to last year, it does not take into account the economic crisis...
Tags: Israel, report shows, National Insurance Institute
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| about 18 hours ago
Arab Israelis consider Israelis settlers, "in Tel Aviv, in Holon, all of us," said former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon Saturday, in his first political conference since announcing his intention to join the Likud party last week. Yaalon asserted that...
Tags: israel, israelis arabs, palestine
Gaza :: Palestine
| about 20 hours ago
Three rockets were fired at southern Israel and a Palestinian site was attacked Saturday further straining the shaky truce in the region, sources said. Ynetnews reported a pair of rockets landed near Sderot, Israel, resulting in the activation of the...
Tags: israel, gaza, rockets, Israeli, Gaza Strip, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, Ehud Barak, minister ehud, defense minister
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
The leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas has denounced Hebrew-language newspaper ads published by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Israeli papers. Khaled Mashaal says Palestinian rights can only be regained through resistance, not advertisements....
Tags: elections, hamas, israel, gaza, palestine, Islamist Palestinian Hamas, Islamic Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli, Gaza Strip
Tehrān :: Iran
| 1 day ago
The most up-to-date intelligence predictions of US nuclear experts is that by the end of 2009, Iran will have stocked enough weapons-grade fuel to build three nuclear bombs. The first will be ready for assembly by the time Barack Obama is sworn in as...
Tags: israel, uranium, Iran, Israeli
Jerusalem :: Israel
| 1 day ago
A meeting between the Israeli ambassador and consul general to Turkey and the rector of Istanbul University was called off after the latter was enraged when the two arrived at his office accompanied by security guards. The report was confirmed by the...
Tags: israel, palestine, Israeli, Palestine Israel, Shimon Peres
Baghdad :: Iraq
| 1 day ago
The official told reporters that the group had entered Iran on an assassination mission, but were arrested by Iran's intelligence forces before 'doing anything.' The intelligence director did not provide details regarding the exact location of the arrest...
Tags: iran, iraq, weapons, israel, Arrest Iran, Iranian, Iraqi Kurdistan, terrorists group
London :: United Kingdom
| 1 day ago
Israel Israeli President Shimon Peres voiced concern about being arrested for war crimes during his three-day visit to the UK where he was constantly accused of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, according to the Jewish Chronicle. Peres lodged a "serious...
Tags: israel, Shimon Peres, war crimes, Israel Israeli
