By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Israel and Turkey have set up a round-the-clock direct line to avoid any undesired military ...

Israel has pushed troops further into parts of southern Syria ... leaders and Iran have accused Israel of attempting to seize territory by force. The advances are detailed in a map produced ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad has received aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran ... Israel, which has a northern border with Syria ...

Since then Syria has remained partitioned into zones ... has been shaken by more than a year of conflict between Israel and Iran and the militant groups it supports. The Iran-backed Hezbollah ...

Israel and Iran both possess weapons that can comfortably reach each other’s targets (see map 2), but Israel would likely depend on aircraft to strike Iran, using stand-off missiles or gravity ...

Harsh deterrence is a necessity for Israel, particularly in light of the collapse of the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria ... World War I order has left the map of the Middle East in flux.

From the Israeli point of view, the removal of Iran from Syria should not ... future operations targeting Israel. Israel’s growing pressure on Syria also signals a clear intention to redraw Syria’s ...

Since then, Israel has attacked Syria continuously, typically claiming it was targeting positions belonging to its nemeses – Hezbollah and Iran. In the process, according to observers ...

Israel, which has a northern border with Syria, also remains neutral. While Lebanon's official stance is neutrality, the militant group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, has supported Assad's ...