An Israeli airstrike hit the international airport in the Syrian capital of Damascus and put it out of commission on Nov 26. The attack came just hours after the airport resumed flights after a monthlong hiatus following a previous Israeli strike.
The raid by Israeli warplanes targeted the runways, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Syrian Observatory also reported an explosion from the direction of a military airport in the Mazzeh area on the other side of Damascus. Watch the video to find out more.
The resolution passed on Wednesday by the United Nations General Assembly, calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories within 12 months, represents yet another example of misguided international pressure that not only lacks practicality but also undermines prospects for a meaningful peace process.
The Kremlin warned on Wednesday that an attack on Lebanese group Hezbollah and others using exploding pagers could become a trigger for a wider regional conflict and called for its perpetrators to be identified in an investigation.
Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations that killed nine people, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.
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