President warns ‘extremists thrive in chaos’ as he resists US lawmakers’ calls to involve US any deeper in Syrian uprising. Barack Obama delivered a grave warning on Friday about the danger of post-Assad Syria becoming a haven for Islamist extremists. He portrayed a nightmare scenario in which Syrian institutions were destroyed beyond recognition and the country divided by sectarianism,... 

Militants in Syria Syrian planes have bombed a Lebanese border town in eastern Bekaa Valley, the first such attack during the country’s ongoing crisis, according to a Lebanese army source. The warplanes entered 1 kilometer into Lebanese airspace and struck the town of Kerbet Younan in the Wadi al-Khayl region of Arsal, where the majority of Sunni Muslim residents support Syrian rebels fighting to... 

Iranian Shahed-129 drone The IDF shot down a Hezbollah-piloted drone over the northern Negev desert earlier this month after it possibly captured images of secret Israeli military sites. Earlier, Tel Aviv praised the IDF for its rapid response to the security breach. ­The drone was launched from Lebanon and crossed into Israeli airspace on October 6, and stayed airborne for three hours before being... 

Lebanese television Al Manar has broadcast footage simulating how the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace, evading radar systems. Al Manar released the video on Friday after Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirmed the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that entered Israeli airspace earlier this week. The operation code-named... 

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 25, 2012. Qatar has become the major supplier of weaponry and funds to the terrorist Free Syrian Army fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Large amounts of money and weapons are being transferred from Lebanon to Syria by a network of Qatari intelligence... 

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (L) speaks during a press conference alongside the Cypriot Foreign Affairs Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoulis (C) at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, July 24, 2012. The European Union has flatly rejected an Israeli call to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group, saying there is no such agreement among the bloc’s member states. “There is no consensus... 

A Syrian Scud missile launcher Israel says it will launch a military operation against Syria if Damascus transfers missiles or chemical weapons to the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. “I have instructed the military to increase its intelligence preparations and prepare what is needed so that … (if necessary) … we will be able to consider carrying out an operation,” the... 

Members of the terrorist Free Syrian Army An estimated 10,000 armed men equipped with highly-sophisticated weapons, including anti-tank missiles, have reportedly entered Syria to help fuel the unrest in the country, Press TV has learned. Informed sources in the Qusayr village in Homs say the terrorists crossed into Syria from the Lebanese border and that they have taken positions in the suburbs of... 

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman Israel what was that about MAPS? For years, the paranoid Israelis have been screaming bloody murder that the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that “Israel should be wiped from the map.” Of course, the man said no such thing, it was a deliberate mis-translation meant to serve their purposes: to demonize Ahmadinejad and Iran and to justify an... 

Iran test firing some of its missiles. The news media in Israel this evening reports foreign embassies are organizing contingency plans for the evacuation of their nationals and diplomats and are requesting gas masks from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Diplomats and their families are worried about a missile strike that may prompt a mass evacuation of Israeli citizens with passports. The European Union... 

A plane being unloaded at Rafiq Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital city, Beirut. Lebanon’s security officials say a suspicious cargo containing huge amounts of US dollars, guns, special passports and credit cards have been seized upon arrival in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, from the US and Brazil. The items, packed in a number of chests and delivered via airmail, were discovered... 

Israel fired four artillery shells into southern Lebanon on November 29, 2011. The Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) say Israel has fired four artillery shells into the southern areas of Lebanon, Press TV reports. Officials within the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL said on Tuesday that the Israeli shelling took place after a rocket was fired into northern Israel from... 

There have been no official comments by the U.S. authorities on the exposure of CIA spy networks in the Middle East. Several dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught, ABC News said, citing U.S. officials with connections to the intelligence community. According to an exclusive ABC report on Monday, “the spies were paid informants recruited by the CIA for two distinct espionage... 

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says any attack on Iran will start a full-scale war in the Middle East region. The Lebanese official said that the Israel and the US want to weaken the ‘Axis of Resistance’ by putting Tehran and Damascus on the defensive. “The [US] must understand that war on Iran and Syria will not... 

Two days ago the entire Israeli media has reported that the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad will attack Israel’s capital city Tel Aviv in case NATO attacks his country. Furthermore, Assad said Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah will side with Syria against NATO. This story has been reported by Ynet, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, DEBKAfile, and confirmed by the US based Newsmax. NATO troops are...