The following pages concern some of the years before the Israelis invaded Lebanon again in November 2023. The title of this timeline refers to Israeli attacks carried out on Syria but from Lebanon's airspace. The Israelis were expecting that Assad would fire air defense missiles in the direction of Lebanon. The Israelis were using that country like a human shield. However, the Israeli attacks on Syria were at that time in a different context, the presence of Hezbollah and Iran in Syria.
The failure of the Western media to provide accurate information has led to the view that Hezbollah and Iran are a threat to the Israelis. At the time of the Syrian uprising in 2011, Assad called on Iran for help in the crackdown on the protests. Tehran contacted Hezbollah who did send parts of its militia. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard was sent a year later, in 2012. None of both presences has ever been proven to be a threat to the Israelis as Hezbollah and Iran, not even the Syrian army, ever retaliated against the Israeli preemptive attacks.
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2013 |
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| May 7, 2013 | Israel launches second attack on Syria | ||
| May 5, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Israeli missile strike hits Damascus | Strong blasts hit the outskirts of Syria's capital early on Sunday, with reports saying that they were results of Israeli airstrikes on a military research center and Damascus Airport. Israel is thought to have carried out a similar attack days ago. |
| May 5, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Israel air strike targets Damascus centre | Israeli missiles struck a research centre near the Syrian capital Damascus, setting off explosions and causing casualties, Syria's state news agency reported early on Sunday, citing initial reports. |
| May 5, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Israel launches more 'air strikes' in Syria | Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital on Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah group, according to officials and activists. Syria's state media reported that Israeli missiles struck a military and scientific research center near Damascus and caused casualties. |
| May 4, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Israel strikes military research center | The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, said early Sunday that Israeli missiles struck a military research center near the capital Damascus. If confirmed, it would be the second Israeli strike on targets in Syria in three days, signaling a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war. |
| May 4, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Syria: 'Israeli strike' hits Damascus army centre | |
| Jan 31, 2013 | Israeli air strike on Jomrayah research center | Russia condemns reported Israel strike in Syria | Russia's Foreign Ministry has said, if true, reports of an Israeli attack in Syria are "unacceptable, no matter the motives to justify it." Moscow also spoke of a military intervention that "blatantly violates the UN Charter". |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Israeli air strike on a weapon convoy | Syria 'confirms' Israeli airstrike | |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Israeli air strike on a weapon convoy | Israeli Warplanes Strike Weapons Convoy in Syria | Though Israel has not confirmed the news, Syrian media and an U.S. official say that Israeli war planes struck a convoy carrying missiles or missile parts inside Syria. |
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2014 |
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| Dec 7, 2014
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Israeli attack on Damascus International Airport | Israeli airstrikes reported in Syria | |
| Dec 7, 2014 | Israeli attack on Damascus International Airport | Syria says Israel warplanes strike targets near Damascus in 'flagrant attack' | Syrian state television said on Sunday (December 7) that Israeli jets had bombed areas near Damascus International Airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon. An Israeli army spokesman said he would not comment on the "foreign reports". Israel has struck Syria several times since the start of the three-year conflict, mostly destroying weaponry such as missiles that Israeli officials said were destined for their long-time foe Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon. |
| Sep 23, 2014 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights | Israel: We shot down Syrian warplane over Golan Heights | |
| Mar 19, 2014 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli retaliation attack |
Israel bombs Syria army targets after Golan attack | Israel launched air raids against Syrian army positions early Wednesday and issued a stark warning to Damascus just hours after a bomb on the occupied Golan wounded four Israeli soldiers. |
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2015 |
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| Aug 21, 2015 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli retaliation attack |
Israel retaliates against rocket attacks from Syria | The Israeli air force has struck Syria in a retaliatory assault for rocket attacks in northern Israel's upper Galilee, near the border with Lebanon. Israel fired missiles into the Quneitra area in the Syrian Golan Heights. No casualties have been reported as a result of either attack. |
| Aug 21, 2015 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli retaliation attack |
Heaviest Israeli raids on Syria since start of civil war | Syrian state TV reported Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria killed six people and wounded seven in the Golan Heights in the heaviest Israeli bombardment since the start of Syria's four-year-old civil war. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF)says it targeted part of the Islamic Jihad cell it said was responsible for rocket attacks from Syria on Thursday (August 20). |
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2016 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 | Israeli Hezbollah politics in Syria | Hezbollah Fighting in Syria With U.S. Weapons Supplied to Lebanese Army, IDF Says | Hezbollah is fighting in Syria with American weapon systems supplied by the United States to the Lebanese Army, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer speaking under conditions of anonymity said Wednesday. According to the officer, Israel has supplied the U.S. administration with evidence, including photographs, of American-supplied armored personnel carriers being used by Hezbollah in Syria. |
| Dec 21, 2016 | Israeli Hezbollah politics in Syria | Hezbollah using U.S. weaponry in Syria: senior Israeli military officer | Israel has informed the United States that Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Syria are using U.S. armored personnel carriers originally supplied to the Lebanese Army, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday. |
| Dec 7, 2016 | Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Hezbollah accuses Israelis of striking targets near Damascus | The Syrian regime has accused Israel of launching surface-to-surface missiles targeting the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus early Wednesday morning, causing damage but no casualties. According to a military source quoted by Syria’s SANA state media “The Israeli enemy launched at 3:00 am Wednesday a number of surface-to-surface missiles from inside the occupied territories to the west of Tall Abu al-Nada (hill) that landed in the surroundings of al-Mezzeh Airport west of Damascus.” |
| Dec 7, 2016 | Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Syrian rebel leader thanks Israel for its attack on Damascus | Israeli media service i24 News, based in Tel Aviv and Jaffa Port, has reported that a Syrian rebel commander has thanked Israel for its attack on Mezzeh airbase in southwest Damascus. Khaled Khalaf, a lawyer and a high-ranking member of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council, told i24news’ Arabic channel that “If Israel repeats what it did this morning [referring to the alleged strikes], in the coming days we will achieve victories.” |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Israeli Syria war politics | Despite Russian involvement in Syria, Israel to maintain watchful eye | When it comes to areas more distant from the border – certainly near Damascus – the operation is much more complicated, risky and could spin out of control. |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Israeli air strike on Al-Saboorah, west of Damascus | Syria conflict: 'Israeli jets' strike outside Damascus | Syrian state media say Israeli jets have fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace which struck outside Damascus. A military source told the Sana news agency that the missiles landed in the Sabboura area but caused no casualties. The source did not say if anything was hit, but the highway from Lebanon to Damascus runs through the town. |
| Nov 30, 2016 | Israeli air strike on Al-Saboorah, west of Damascus | Israeli jet carries out airstrike near Damascus | Moments ago, an Israeli jet fired two longe-range ‘Popeye’ missile upon the government-held town of Al-Saboorah, west of Damascus. The overnight explosions were so loud they could be heard by an Al-Masdar News field correspondent in downtown Damascus. |
| Nov 28, 2016 | Israeli Airstrikes Target ISIS Facility in Syria, Hours After First Direct Clashes in Golan Heights | Compound hit by Israel Air Force was once manned by UN troops before it became the base of operations for ISIS affiliate Shuhada al-Yarmouk. | |
| Sep 13, 2016 | Israeli air strike from Golan Heights | Israel Denies Claims That Syria Shot Down Warplane and Drone | The Israeli military said on Tuesday that Syrian forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles after Israeli aircraft targeted artillery positions in the Syrian Golan Heights overnight, but it categorically denied a claim by the Syrians that they had shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone. |
| Sep 13, 2016 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli air strike from Golan Heights |
Israeli jets hit Syria's positions in Golan Heights | Israel keeps violating Syria’s airspace conducting fresh airstrikes on the Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights.
Israeli forces have targeted the Syrian army’s artillery positions in the region located in the Quneitra |
| Sep 13, 2016 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli air strike from Golan Heights |
Israeli aircraft attack Syrian army position, Israel denies any shot down | Israel said its aircraft attacked a Syrian army position on Tuesday after a stray mortar bomb struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, and it denied a Syrian statement that a warplane and drone were shot down. |
| Sep 13, 2016 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights
Israeli air strike from Golan Heights |
Syria says downed Israeli aircraft, Israel denies | The Syrian army was said to have downed an Israeli warplane and a drone on Tuesday, but Israel promptly denied the report. Syrian state news agency SANA said the warplane had attacked an army position in southern Syria, and that it and a drone had been shot down. But the Israeli military denied any of its aircraft had been downed, saying two missiles were indeed fired at them during the air strike, but missed their targets. |
| Sep 13, 2016 | Israeli air strike on Syrian military position in Quneitra | Syria claims shooting down Israeli warplane and drone | Syrian state media has said the army has shot down an Israeli warplane and a drone after an Israeli attack on Syrian military position in Quneitra, near the Israeli border. Just minutes after the Syrian claim on Tuesday, Israel denied it had lost any aircraft. |
| Sep 10, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Syrian artillery post | Israel attacks Syrian post after stray shell crosses border | Israeli aircraft attacked a Syrian artillery post on Saturday after a stray shell from fighting in Syria’s civil war landed inside the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Israel’s military said. |
| Sep 9, 2016 | occupied Syria's Golan Heights | Tension rises in Golan heights with chaos reigning across the border | |
| Jun 7, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Syrian weapons facility in Homs | Syria reports first Israeli attack since Lieberman became defense minister | Syrian newspaper claims Israel launched airstrike against Hezbollah targets; Lebanese army also discovers surveillance device on mountain; unclear whether it was planted by Israel or not. |
| Jun 7, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Syrian weapons facility in Homs | Israelis attacked Syrian weapons facility. | sraeli Air Force jets attacked a missile storage facility in Syria over the weekend, targeting a number of military sites said to be housing advanced weaponry, according to Syrian Internet publication Al Wasil Time on Tuesday. The attack took place near the embattled city of Homs and reportedly caused extensive damage to the facility. The report added that Syrian defense systems identified Israeli aircraft within their airspace but refrained from firing. |
| May 13, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah commander | Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli air strike | The top commander for Lebanese-based terror organization Hezbollah was reportedly killed in an IDF military operation in Syria overnight Thursday, according to The Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen. Mustafa Amine Badreddine was reportedly killed near the Damascus airport. Badreddine is said to be the highest ranking official in the Shi'ite paramilitary group behind the organization's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. |
| May 13, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah commander | Top Hezbollah commander killed in Damascus blast | Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the Lebanese Shi‘ite group said on Friday, one of the biggest blows to its leadership the Iranian-backed organization has ever sustained. |
| Apr 22, 2016 | Russian response on Israeli attacks | ‘Russian forces fired on Israeli jets at least twice’ | Russian forces fired on Israeli Air Force planes at least twice in recent weeks, according to a Friday morning report in the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The paper said that President Reuven Rivlin brought up the issue with President Vladimir Putin during his visit last month to Moscow, and that Putin said it was the first he’d heard of the incidents, despite coordination between the two militaries. |
| Apr 11, 2016 | Israeli Syria war politics | Netanyahu: Israel has carried out dozens of strikes in Syria | Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, acknowledging for the first time such attacks against suspected arms transfers to Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas. |
| Feb 21, 2016 | Israeli Syria war politics | Israel Is Changing Its Approach to Syria War Amid Assad's Battleground Advances | Russian intervention has tilted the scales, and Jerusalem is concerned of a regime victory, which would be victory for Iran as well. To prevent that, Israeli officials believe West must intervene in favor of moderate rebels. |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Israeli airstrike on Syrian army post | Israelis strike Syrian army outpost south of Damascus, monitor says | Pro-Syrian government military sources reportedly deny any armed Israeli strike in Syrian territory. |
| Jan 4, 2016 | Hezbollah targets Israeli forces with bomb, Israel shells south Lebanon | Hezbollah set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border on Monday in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent commander, triggering Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon. | |
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| Dec 29, 2017 | Israeli Iran politics in Syria | ‘We told the Israelis clearly, we’re staying in Syria,’ US official says | Israel’s most pressing concern during a recent meeting in Washington on future cooperation on the Iranian threat was the Islamic republic’s entrenchment in Syria and US plans to counter Tehran’s ambitions, Channel 10 news reported Friday. |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Syrian response on Israeli air strikes | Israel says will intensify response to Syrian fire | Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the civil war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. |
| Dec 5, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Syrian military facility in Rif Dimashq | Israeli missiles target Syrian military facility near Damascus: Syrian state media | Syrian state media on Monday said Israel had fired missiles at a Syrian military facility in the Damascus countryside, adding that Syrian air defense systems had intercepted three of the missiles. “Our air defenses are confronting an Israeli missile attack on one of our sites in the Damascus suburbs and three of the targets were downed,” state news agency SANA said, adding the attacks happened at 11:30 p.m. Monday. |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Israeli missiles rip through Damascus | The Syrian Air Defence in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus reportedly fired back at Israeli forces, after Israeli military allegedly shot missiles at several military bases in Damascus on Monday night, shortly before midnight. |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Israeli Syria war politics | Israel Warns Syria About Iranian Role | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently sent a message to Syria’s leader threatening to strike the country if it allows Iran to set up military bases there, a sign Israel is prepared to drop its neutral stance on the yearslong war next door, according to Israeli officials. |
| Dec 2, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus | Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near Damascus | Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles at a military post near the Syrian capital of Damascus early on Saturday, causing material damage but no casualties, Syria’s state-run news agency reported. The airstrike came as violence resumed in the Damascus suburbs after days of calm while the government and opposition delegations attended peace talks in Geneva. |
| Dec 2, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus | Israeli missiles hit military post near Damascus: Syrian state TV |
Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. |
| Nov 18, 2017 | Israeli artillery attack from Golan Heights | Israeli tank fires warning shot at Syrian Golan post: army | An Israeli tank fired a warning shot on Saturday at a Syrian military position in the demilitarized zone in the northern Golan Heights following construction work there, the army said. A spokeswoman for the Israeli army told AFP that the Syrian army work "violated the 1974 ceasefire agreement" which "prohibits the entry of heavy construction tools or military vehicles into the demilitarized zone". |
| Nov 15, 2017 | Israeli Iran politics in Syria | Israel Won’t Allow Iran to Establish Presence in Syria, Defense Minister Says | 'We retain absolute freedom of action,' Avigdor Lieberman says at northern border one day after Russian defense minister called Iran's presence 'legitimate' |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Israeli Syria war politics | Israeli military says ready to protect Druze village in Syria | Israel’s military said on Friday it was ready to protect a frontier village in Syria held by the Syrian government, where Damascus said jihadist rebels exploded a car killing at least nine people. |
| Nov 1, 2017 | Israeli air strike on factory (disputed) | Israeli warplane targets factory in Syria's Homs | Israel has launched yet another air strike on Syria targeting the Arab country’s industrial city of Haysia.
The target was a copper factory south of the city of Homs. However, Israeli media claims the warplane targeted an arms depot. A commander with a pro-Damascus alliance has said that the Syrian army responded by firing a surface-to-air missile in the direction of the jet. |
| Oct 21, 2017 | Syrian response on Israeli air strikes | Israel says will intensify response to Syrian fire | Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the civil war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Israeli missile air strike on Syrian army base | Israeli jets attack Syrian target | The Syrian army says Israeli jets have attacked a military base in the west of the country. Some media and a monitoring group claim the site was being used to produce chemical weapons. An official Syrian statement said missiles fired from Lebanese airspace hit the site near Masyaf in the northwest of the country, killing two soldiers. So far Israel has made no comment on the matter but it has been known to have carried out air strikes in the past. |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Israeli missile air strike on Syrian army base | Israeli jets strike military facility in Hama | Israeli fighter jets have struck a military facility in western Syria, killing two people, according to a Syrian commander quoted by the state-run news agency SANA. The army statement said the air strike caused material damage near the town of Masyaf and warned against the "dangerous repercussions of this aggressive action to the security and stability of the region". |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus International Airport | *** Strikes near Damascus ‘in line with Israel policy to stop Iran arms transfers’ – Israeli minister | Explosions have rocked the Syrian capital, Damascus, hitting an area near the city's International airport. Syria's state news agency says the blasts are the result of Israeli air strikes. |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus International Airport | Damascus airport rocked by 'Israeli strikes' on arms depot | |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus International Airport | Syria accuses Israel of bombing military site near Damascus | Syria is blaming Israel for a missile attack near Damascus International Airport which was felt as far as 15 kilometers away. |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Damascus International Airport | Syria accuses Israel of bombing military site near Damascus
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Syria is blaming Israel for a missile attack near Damascus International Airport which was felt as far as 15 kilometers away. Syria's ally Russia has called for restraint and says Israel's actions will only heighten tensions in the region. And while the Israeli military has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility, its Intelligence Minister said the strike was in line with its policy of blocking weapons to the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. |
| Mar 17, 2017 | Israeli air strike near Palmyra, Homs | Assad's Air Force shoots down Israeli jet after raids hit 'military target' near Palmyra | |
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Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Syria says Israeli forces fired rockets at military base |
Syrian army says rocket attack on major military base outside Damascus was carried out by Israeli artillery, and warns of repercussions for the "flagrant" strike. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | *** Israeli jets bomb military airport near Damascus - Syrian Army | The Syrian Arab Army reported that Israeli jets carried out airstrikes on the the Mezzeh military airport, west of Damascus on Friday.
The Army and Syrian local media reported the airport compound was hit by several rockets. Emergency services rushed to the scene immediately. |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Syria accuses Israel of launching rocket attack on Damascus base | Syria has accused Israel of carrying out what it called a "flagrant" rocket attack on a major military base outside Damascus. Explosions could be heard on video images published on social media, while smoke was seen rising from the area. The airbase at Mezzah is used by President Assad's elite Republican Guards. |
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Israeli air strike on Al Mezze airbase | Israel strikes Syrian military airport near Damascus - army |
The Mezzeh airport near Damascus was rocked by multiple explosions. The Syrian Arab Army has warned that there will be repercussions for Israel for the 'flagrant attack' on the military base. It also linked |
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| Apr 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Tiyas airbase, Homs from Lebanon
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Tensions rachet up as Israel blamed for Syria missile strike | A suspected poison gas attack in a Syrian rebel-held town and airstrikes on a Syrian air base that Damascus and Moscow blamed on U.S. ally Israel escalated tensions in the already volatile Mideast on Monday and raised the threat of possibly imminent American retaliation. |
| Apr 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Tiyas airbase, Homs from Lebanon | Russia, Syria accuse Israelis of carrying out strike on Syrian air base | The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Israelis of bombing an air base in Syria overnight, the Russian news agency Interfax reported on Monday. Syrian state media also accused Israelis of carrying out the strike. |
| Apr 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Tiyas airbase, Homs from Lebanon | Israel blamed for missile strike in Syria; 14 reported dead | Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on an air base in central Syria, saying Israeli fighter jets launched the missiles from Lebanon’s air space. A war-monitoring group said the airstrikes killed 14 people, including Iranians active in Syria. |
| Apr 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Tiyas airbase, Homs from Lebanon | Russian military says Israeli war planes struck Syrian air base: Ifax |
The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F-15 war planes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported. |
| Apr 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Tiyas airbase, Homs from Lebanon | *** Russia blames Israel for missile attack on Syrian airbase | Tifor airbase, also known as Tiyas airfield or T-4, in Syria's Homs Province was attacked by two F-15 fighters belonging to the Israeli Air Force, representatives of the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Damascus warns Israel of 'more surprises' in Syria | Israel will face “more surprises” should it again attack Syrian territory, Damascus said on Tuesday, after Syria’s air defenses shot down an advanced Israeli warplane during the fiercest flare-up between the old foes in 36 years. |
| Feb 12, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | ** Putin's Phone Call With Netanyahu Put End to Israeli Strikes in Syria | [analysis] - Russian President Vladimir Putin put an end to the confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria and both sides accepted his decision. That’s the apparent conclusion to be reached from the chain of events... |
| Feb 12, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israel squares off for showdown with Iran in Syria | A surge in Israeli-Syrian cross-border incidents has turned into the "biggest" confrontation between the two countries in decades and confronted Russia with a new dilemma: how to preserve its ties with both sides. |
| Feb 11, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Netanyahu says Israel undeterred after Syria shoots down F-16 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israeli forces would press ahead with Syria operations despite their loss of an advanced warplane to enemy fire for the first time in 36 years. |
| Feb 11, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Netanyahu: Air raids dealt serious blows to Iran, Syria | Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has described his country's most significant air strikes on Syria in decades as a heavy blow to Syria and Iran. |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israeli F-16 jet crashes after Syrian fire | An Israeli F-16 fighter jet crashed Saturday in northern Israel after coming under "massive anti-aircraft fire" from Syrian forces, according to the Israeli army. The incident came after an Israeli combat helicopter successfully intercepted an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle that had been launched from Syria, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israeli Air Force General: Syria Strike Is the Most Substantial Since 1982 | Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar, second in command of Israel's Air Force, said Saturday that the Israeli strike in Syria Saturday morning – after an Israeli F-16 was shot down – was "the biggest and most significant attack the air force has conducted againt Syrian air defenses" since the 1982 Lebanon War. The Israeli military said it has struck 12 targets in Syria, which included four Syrian air-defense battaries and four Iranian sites after the F-16I crashed. The fighter jet was one of the planes sent to attack in Syria in response to the drone incursion earlier on Saturday. |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israeli F-16 jet shot down by Syria fire, says military | An Israeli F-16 fighter jet has been shot down by Syrian military while targeting what it called Iranian sites responsible for launching a drone into occupied Golan Heights. |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israel downs Iranian drone and strikes Syria, F-16 crashes | The Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone it said infiltrated the country early Saturday before launching a “large-scale attack” on at least a dozen Iranian and Syrian targets inside Syria, in its most significant engagement since the fighting in neighboring Syria began in 2011. Responding anti-aircraft fire led to the downing of an Israeli fighter plane. |
| Feb 10, 2018 | Israeli attack on Iranian positions in Syria | Israel launches heavy Syria strikes after F-16 crashes | Israel launched heavy air strikes in Syria on Saturday, saying it hit air defenses and Iranian targets, and the Syrian army claimed to have brought down an Israeli F-16 that crashed in northern Israel in a major escalation of tension. |
| Jan 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Syrian army | Syrian army: Israel launches air strikes near Damascus | Israel launched a series of predawn air strikes then followed up with artillery fire on an army base near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's military said. The allegation was not denied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when questioned by reporters later on Tuesday. |
| Jan 9, 2018 | Israeli attack on Syrian army | Israel attacks Syria with jets and ground-to-ground missiles, claims Syrian army | Israel has launched an attack using jets and ground-to-ground missiles on several military outposts near the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syria’s army said on Tuesday. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, refused to confirm or deny the bombardment but issued an unusually defiant statement when asked by reporters, declaring Israel would see through its policy of preventing Hezbollah from arming itself in Lebanon “with action”. |