Beirut asks for Russia’s air defense net to cover Lebanon as well as Syria
Exclusive: Lebanese President Michel Aoun has asked Moscow to bring Lebanese air space under the protection of the Russian air
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Lebanon
Israel and Hizballah trade threats over Iran-supplied precision-guidance missiles
Israel has sent a final warning to the Lebanese government that it will destroy Hizballah’s new factories for upgrading its
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IDF to Hizballah: Don’t try and surprise us after withdrawing from Syria
Intelligence monitors report deepening Hizballah control of Lebanese army forces near the Israeli frontier, raising concerns that the Iranian-backed group
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Saudis summon Lebanese PM moments before Beirut falls into Iranian orbit
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s switch of loyalty to Hizballah and Iran shocks Riyadh and dismays Israel. The Lebanese Sunni
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The Israel-Lebanese oil dispute – part of US-Russian Mid-East energy battle
Instead of accepting a US-brokered deal for Block 9, Hizballah and Iran make Israel’s offshore gas and oil fields a
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The next Iranian-Israeli engagement in Syria is due in late April, early May
It is then that Tehran will try to move a special Russian-backed Iraqi Shiite force from southern Iraq into Syria
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Assad in rare message to Israel: We won’t start war or let foreign forces control our borders
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Bashar Assad used a European go-between to send this secret message to PM Binyamin Netanyahu. A similar note
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Trump is serious about slashing aid to Palestinians and Hizballah-dominated Lebanon
Palestinian leaders in Ramallah were wrong to assume that President Donald Trump does not seriously mean to cut off US
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Israeli top soldier’s restraint vs Gaza’s rockets sends wrong signal to enemies in the north
“I hear irresponsible demands for maximum force to stop Gaza rockets,” said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkott
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Rev Guards repair Syria’s Deir ez-Zour-Palmyra road – first link in Iran’s new transnational land corridor
Repairs are underway on the war-ravaged 200km long M20 road linking Deir Ez-Zour in eastern Syrian to Palmyra, DEBKAfile’s exclusive
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