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71 articles tagged "Middle East war"
DEBKAfile
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September 30, 2010, 11:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian president tells Syria's Bashar Assad that the cyber attack on his country is the second in three years after Israel struck the Syrian plutonium reactor. That is more than Tehran is willing to suffer. 
DEBKAfile
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September 23, 2010, 10:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian and Syrian presidents will back Hizballah to the hilt in a coup against the Beirut government - especially if it triggers war with Israel. The joint Syrian-Hizballah-Iranian military command will be activated for the first time. 
DEBKAfile
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May 28, 2010, 12:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
The trigger for rising Middle East war tensions was the accumulation of 800 Scud D missiles placed by Bashar Assad on the Syrian-Lebanese border. The US, Israel, Syria, Hizballah, Lebanon, Hamas and Iran were all on war alert by week's end. 
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May 25, 2010, 7:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Lebanese army Wednesday boosted its units on the Israeli border "to monitor" 
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December 17, 2007, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
The foreign ministry in Moscow announced Monday, Dec. 17, the delivery of the first fuel shipment to power the Iranian nuclear reactor Russia is building at Bushehr. The announcement coincided with an international conference in Paris for 60 countries to consider the Palestinians' application for $5.6 bn in aid.
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DEBKAfile
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August 21, 2007, 10:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Since the beginning of the week, Israel's top military commanders have been poring over the situation of the Israeli Defense Forces in a workshop called by Ehud Barak who took over as defense minister two months ago. Some of their most alarming findings were presented by Barak at his first ...
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May 8, 2007, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni staged a revealing scrap of asides behind open microphones and TV cameras Monday, May 8.
She said the army chiefs was complaining the politicians were holding them back from dealing with the Palestinian Qassam missiles flying daily from Gaza. He ... 
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October 2, 2006, 6:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nub of the new Bush administration's Middle East venture, on which US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice embarks Tuesday, Oct. 3, is an effort to lure Syrian president Bashar Asad over to the moderate pro-US Arab camp. This is pivotal to the main item on the agenda of her ...
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November 3, 2004, 11:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
George W. Bush just couldn't seem to get a break overseas. Never have so many foreign voices been raised so systematically against an American president, from the insurgents in Iraq, down to the left-wing British newspaper, The Guardian, which mounted its own guerrilla campaign to persuade voters in the key ...
DEBKAfile
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December 30, 2002, 11:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
The powerful blast that reverberated across eastern and central Lebanon Sunday, December 29, was caused by the explosion of a big surface missile in Hizballah hands and of Iraqi origin. Reporting this, debkafile's exclusive military and Lebanese sources reveal that the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group has recently taken ...
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December 22, 2002, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
There are two main reasons for the Palestinian leader to have swung the Hamas Islamic terrorists round to a partial suspension of operations: A. To put pressure on Israel to reciprocate by lifting the closure of Ramallah so that he can wriggle out of the stranglehold imposed on him by ...
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October 28, 2002, 10:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon informed the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee on Monday, October 28, that Iraq has airplanes capable of delivering biological and chemical weapons over Israel. The official "there's nothing to worry about" campaign run from Jerusalem until now is gradually making way for a more ...
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October 13, 2002, 2:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saddam Hussein wasted no time before calling his leadership and parliament into emergency sessions Saturday, October 12, in response respond to the congressional endorsement US president George W. Bush gained for waging war on Iraq. debkafile's Gulf sources report that the day after the US Senate in Washington ...
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August 5, 2002, 4:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
In total hush, the US has embarked on advance preparations deep inside Iraq for the coming offensive against Baghdad. In northern Iraq, these preparations are in the form of crash engineering projects.
DEBKAfile
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July 27, 2002, 3:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political analysts view the American UN ambassador's landmark statement as strikingly significant in terms of the Bush administration's war on global terror and its relations with the Arab and Muslim world, as well as its perception of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Jewish state's future in the ...
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June 5, 2002, 11:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Early Wednesday, June 5, a Palestinian terrorist drove a stolen vehicle from the West Bank into Israel, trailed the early Tel Aviv-Tiberias bus that was packed with commuters, mostly soldiers, drew up close and detonated the 100-kilo charge in his car behind the bus, as it passed Megiddo junction in ...
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May 29, 2002, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
CIA Director George Tenet flies to Cairo or Jerusalem on Friday, May 31, to take charge of the final stage of the process. He will be joined in Jerusalem on Friday by Mubarak's political adviser Osama al Baz, who will inform the Israeli prime minister, defense minister and foreign minister ...
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May 13, 2002, 10:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two events on Friday, April 12, reshaped US Secretary of State Colin Powell's conception of his peace mission to the Middle East: his tour of Israel's tense northern border region, which he termed "an eye opener"; and the suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem that blasted a bus line - just ...
DEBKAfile
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April 22, 2002, 4:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, to head a team to probe events at the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin during the eight days of Israel's fierce battles with Palestinian terrorists.
DEBKAfile
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April 17, 2002, 10:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
That US Secretary of State Colin Powell wound up his 10-day ceasefire mission in the Middle East without once mentioning its object is a measure of its failure. Asked by a reporter at his final news briefing in Jerusalem Wednesday, April 17, what happened to the ceasefire, he said the ...
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