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Israel Monitors Iranian Army Training Exercises
Drones are seen at a site at an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on April 20, 2023. Photo: Iranian Army/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS
i24 News – Israeli security services indicated that they are monitoring the exercises and training of the Iranian army to ensure that there is no hidden intention behind the drills, Israeli national broadcaster Kan reported on Sunday.
This comes amid growing calls for Israel to take action against Iran, after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel Beiteinu chairman and lawmaker Avigdor Liberman told Kan he supported a strike against Iran. “Without Iran, there is no Yemen,” the former defense minister said. “We must decide whether we wait to receive missiles from Iran or if we carry out a preemptive strike, calming Iran and eliminating its nuclear program.”
“We must move forward, we do not need to wait for missiles to explode here, in the heart of the country,” he said.
Over the past weeks, the Houthis have escalated their rocket and drone attacks against Israel. The Iran-backed group even launched missiles at the Jerusalem area.
“The government is trying to normalize this madness,” Liberman said. “We can eliminate the Iranian nuclear program ourselves. We have no choice. Following the announcement by the Director General of the IAEA that Iran has violated every agreement, we should have convened the cabinet for a marathon discussion. We do not need to wait, they have never given up the idea of destroying the ‘Zionist entity.’”
Last Tuesday, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stating that the Iranian attack on October 1 was justified following the confirmation of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s killing in Tehran by Defense Minister Israel Katz.
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Kurdish-led SDF Say Five Members Killed During Attack by Islamic State in Syria
Islamic State slogans painted along the walls of the tunnel was used by Islamic State militants as an underground training camp in the hillside overlooking Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017. Photo: via Reuters Connect.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Sunday that five of its members had been killed during an attack by Islamic State militants on a checkpoint in eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zor on July 31.
The SDF was the main fighting force allied to the United States in Syria during fighting that defeated Islamic State in 2019 after the group declared a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic State has been trying to stage a comeback in the Middle East, the West and Asia. Deir el-Zor city was captured by Islamic State in 2014, but the Syrian army retook it in 2017.
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Armed Groups Attack Security Force Personnel in Syria’s Sweida, Killing One, State TV Reports
People ride a motorcycle past a burned-out military vehicle, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes, and government forces, in Syria’s predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
Armed groups attacked personnel from Syria’s internal security forces in Sweida, killing one member and wounding others, and fired shells at several villages in the violence-hit southern province, state-run Ekhbariya TV reported on Sunday.
The report cited a security source as saying the armed groups had violated the ceasefire agreed in the predominantly Druze region, where factional bloodshed killed hundreds of people last month.
Violence in Sweida erupted on July 13 between tribal fighters and Druze factions. Government forces were sent to quell the fighting, but the bloodshed worsened, and Israel carried out strikes on Syrian troops in the name of the Druze.
The Druze are a minority offshoot of Islam with followers in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Sweida province is predominantly Druze but is also home to Sunni tribes, and the communities have had long-standing tensions over land and other resources.
A US-brokered truce ended the fighting, which had raged in Sweida city and surrounding towns for nearly a week. Syria said it would investigate the clashes, setting up a committee to investigate the attacks.
The Sweida bloodshed last month was a major test for interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, after a wave of sectarian violence in March that killed hundreds of Alawite citizens in the coastal region.
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Netanyahu Urges Red Cross to Aid Gaza Hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he spoke with the International Red Cross’s regional head, Julien Lerisson, and requested his involvement in providing food and medical care to hostages held in Gaza.