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U.S. not notified before air raids on Syria: intelligence official

May 7, 2013 10:51
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the U.S. intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air raids "after the fact" and was notified as the bombs went off.

Israel Syria strike targeted Iran missiles to Hezbollah: source

May 7, 2013 10:41
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli overnight strike in Syria targeted Iranian-supplied missiles to Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, a Western intelligence source said on Sunday. "In last night's attack, as in the previous one, what was attacked were stores of Fateh-110 missiles that were in transit from Iran to Hezbollah," the source said. Syrian state television said Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital early on Sunday. Israel declined to comment on the attack.

Israel bombs Hezbollah-bound missiles in Syria: official

May 7, 2013 10:36
(Reuters) - Israel has carried out an air strike targeting a shipment of missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The Jewish state had long made clear it is prepared to resort to force to prevent advanced Syrian weapons, including President Bashar al-Assad's reputed chemical arsenal, being handed over to Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas. Assad and Hezbollah are allied to Iran, Israel's arch-enemy.

Israel: Syrian chemical arms safe, Hezbollah does not want them

May 7, 2013 10:33
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad retains control of the country's reputed chemical weapons and they are not sought by his Hezbollah guerrilla allies in neighboring Lebanon, a senior Israeli official said on Saturday. Defense Ministry strategist Amos Gilad spoke after another Israeli official said Israel had sent warplanes on Friday to attack a Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, where Assad is battling a more than two-year-old insurgency.

Australian Mossad spy interfered in Israeli operation: TV report

May 7, 2013 10:32
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian emigrant and disgraced Mossad spy who died in an Israeli jail in 2010 was arrested after interfering in a secret Israeli intelligence operation to recover the bodies of soldiers killed in the 1982 Lebanon war, an Australian news report said on Tuesday. Ben Zygier was arrested in January 2010 and held in secret under the name of Prisoner X on unspecified security charges. A judicial inquiry in Israel found Zygier, 34, hanged himself in a high-security jail cell.

Israel strikes Syria, targeting missiles: security source

May 7, 2013 10:31
By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel carried out its second air strikes in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky. Israel declined to comment, but explosions hit the city a day after an Israeli official said his country had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria intended for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Israelis in Haifa vigilant of attack from Lebanon

Agence France-PresseMay 6, 2013 16:15
Israel's weekend strikes on Syria may have sent regional tensions soaring, but life in Haifa was carrying on as normal on Monday, with locals adamant they are ready for any counterattack from Lebanon. On the streets of this northern port city, where Israel on Sunday deployed a battery of its vaunted Iron Dome anti-missile system, the effect of the bombings was far from palpable, with people sipping cool drinks in outdoor cafes.

UN chief urges restraint after Israeli air strikes in Syria

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 19:45
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday for restraint to avoid an escalation in Syria's civil war, expressing "grave concern" over Israeli air raids. Israel launched air strikes earlier that hit three military sites near Damascus, the second such reported attack in a 48-hour period targeting the transfer of arms to Lebanon-based Hezbollah, raising fresh concerns of a regional spillover.

UN chief urges restraint after Israeli air strikes in Syria

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 14:31
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday for restraint to avoid an escalation in the Syrian conflict, expressing "grave concern" over Israeli air strikes. "The secretary-general calls on all sides to exercise maximum calm and restraint, and to act with a sense of responsibility to prevent an escalation of what is already a devastating and highly dangerous conflict," his spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Israel silent on reports it bombed Syria

Agence France-PresseMay 4, 2013 18:45
Israel was silent on Saturday on US media reports that it launched new air strikes on Syria targeting a weapons shipment to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The Israeli military and spokesmen for the defence ministry and prime minister's office declined to comment on the reports. Israel and Hezbollah, a faithful ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fought a devastating war in the summer of 2006. CNN television said US and Western intelligence agencies were reviewing information suggesting Israel conducted a strike overnight on Thursday.
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