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IDF and Russian army on collision course in Syria  

Sep 23, 2018 @ 16:42Sep 30, 2018 @ 12:25 Diane Shalem 4756 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, IDF report, Russian IL-20 crash, Russian MoD report, US-Israel, Vladimir Putin

The Russian Ministry of Defense leveled several grave charges against Israel on Sunday, Sept. 23 as having caused the loss

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Russia & Israel at odds over cause of Il-20 crash after Israeli air force chief’s Moscow talks  

Sep 21, 2018 @ 19:04 Diane Shalem 3527 Views IDF, IL-20 crash, Maj. Gen. Amikam Nurkin, Russian officers, Russian-Israel relations, Vladimir Putin

Russia and Israel agreed to continue their military coordination in Syria, although Israel’s Air Force chief Maj.-Gen Amikam Nurkin and

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Is Israel in Putin’s sights, as its air force chief is cross-examined in Moscow?

Sep 20, 2018 @ 22:49Sep 30, 2018 @ 12:28 Diane Shalem 5593 Views Amikam Nurkin, Binyamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, IL-20 crash, Moscow, Vladimir Putin

Maj. Gen. Amikam Nurkin, Israel’s Air Force chief, endured hour after hour of quizzing in Moscow Thursday, Sept. 20 about

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Russia to beef up air defenses, aircraft to curtail Israeli air operations in Syria

Sep 19, 2018 @ 19:39Sep 30, 2018 @ 12:29 Diane Shalem 5273 Views advaned Russian radar, Binyamin Netanyahu, Russian IL-20, Russian probe, Syria, Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to the downing of the Il-20 by Syria was mild in tone, but his reference

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Putin meets Erdogan at Sochi to cut a separate deal for Idlib

Sep 17, 2018 @ 10:50Sep 20, 2018 @ 9:32 Diane Shalem 3942 Views Erdogan, Idlib offensive, Kurds, northern Syria, Sochi, US oil sanctions, Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin will insist on an early date for the Idlib offensive when he meets Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan at

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Netanyahu ignores Putin’s alignment with Tehran against a US-Israeli anti-Iran offensive Iran in Syria

Aug 28, 2018 @ 21:03Sep 5, 2018 @ 10:23 Diane Shalem 8841 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Iran, military pact, Syria, Vladimir Putin

Jerusalem finally responded on Tuesday, Aug. 28, to the signing of a new Iranian-Syrian military pact two days earlier in

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Iran demands guaranteed Russian/Syrian backing against US-Israeli offensive in Syria

Aug 26, 2018 @ 19:45Sep 1, 2018 @ 11:57 Diane Shalem 8839 Views Amir Hatami, Bashar Assad, Iran in Syria, John Bolton, US-Israel operation, Vladimir Putin

Iran’s Defense Minister Amir Hatami arrived in Damascus on Sunday, Aug. 26 demanding Russian and Syrian commitments to stand foursquare

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Syria proclaims control of borders with Israel = Iranian/Hizballah forces now face IDF Golan positions

Jul 31, 2018 @ 10:10Aug 4, 2018 @ 18:17 Diane Shalem 7779 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Golan, Hizballah, ISIS, Israel's borders, Shiites, Syria, Vladimir Putin

Three glaring inaccuracies appeared in the Syrian claim on Tuesday, July 31, that its army had won control of the

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Israel spurns Russia’s “100km offer” after 8 pro-Iranian militias reach its doorstep

Jul 24, 2018 @ 8:51Aug 4, 2018 @ 18:33 Diane Shalem 8027 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Hizballah, IRGC, Israel-Russia, Sergei Lavrov, South Syria, Trump-Putin Helsinki summit, Vladimir Putin

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov were turned away from Jerusalem empty-handed on July

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With breakdown of Russian-Israeli “understandings” for S. Syria, Israel will strike Iranian targets

Jul 22, 2018 @ 10:12Jul 22, 2018 @ 10:14 Diane Shalem 5326 Views Binyamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Helsinki, Hizballah, IDF, Iran, Israel-Russia, South Syria, Vladimir Putin

 DEBKAfile Exclusive: The US-Russian-Israel formula for South Syria, composed in painstaking discussions for weeks, is not working. This became clear

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