May 10 Watch 4:15 Israel answers Iranian rockets with airstrikes, raising escalation fears By Jane Ferguson Long-simmering hostility flared to life overnight as Israel blasted Iranian fighters in Syria with their largest air strikes since the 1973 war. The Israeli military said the overnight operation was a response to rockets that they claim Iranian forces fired… Continue watching
May 10 Watch 7:44 Will rising tensions lead Israel and Iran into war? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran crossed a “red line” in Syria after bombing Iranian military infrastructure in that country. Is the Middle East on the verge of a wider war? John Yang gets reaction from Mark Perry of… Continue watching
May 10 Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage By Josef Federman, Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press The Israeli military said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military installations in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage in the occupied Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date. Continue reading
May 08 Watch 9:20 Ehud Barak: Iran nuclear deal is bad, but Trump's withdrawal not 'optimal' By William Brangham Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel, says the fact that the U.S. pulled out doesn’t cancel the Iran nuclear deal, and that it would have been better for President Trump to work with allies to pressure Iran on various… Continue watching
May 07 Watch 5:17 Report: Israeli private security firm tried to discredit Obama officials tied to Iran nuclear deal Nearly three years since the Iran deal was sealed, The Guardian reports that top Obama White House national security officials Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl were the targets of elaborate efforts to delegitimize the agreement. An Israeli private intelligence firm… Continue watching
May 06 Israeli PM steps up calls to end the Iranian nuclear deal By Josef Federman, Associated Press Benjamin Netanyahu said the world would be better off without any deal than with what he called the "fatally flawed" agreement reached in 2015. Continue reading
May 01 Netanyahu's nuclear presentation gets cool reception in Europe By Josef Federman, Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest accusations about Iran's past nuclear activities received a warm welcome in Washington but a far cooler reception in Europe on Tuesday — deepening divisions among Western allies ahead of President Donald Trump's decision on… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 5:51 News Wrap: Pro-government forces attacked in Syria In our news wrap Monday, a group monitoring the Syrian war said an overnight missile strike targeted government military bases in Northern Syria. The group said Israel likely carried out the assault that killed 26 pro-government fighters, including many Iranians. Continue watching
Apr 30 Missile strikes in Syria kill over a dozen, most of them Iranians By Bassem Mroue, Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press A missile attack on government outposts in northern Syria killed more than a dozen pro-government fighters, many of them Iranians, a war monitoring group and an Iranian news agency said Monday. The strikes came amid soaring tensions between regional archenemies… Continue reading
Apr 29 Pompeo, in Saudi Arabia, talks tough on Iran, Gulf dispute By Matthew Lee, Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is using the Middle East leg of his first trip abroad as America's top diplomat to call for concerted international action to punish Iran for its missile programs. Continue reading