After the waters calmed, dozens of young people from Majdal Shams managed to overcome the fences in waves throughout the afternoon and began running toward the other side, ignoring the calls made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As night fell, a trickle of people could be seen returning in both directions.

Israel’s purchase of an additional tranche of advanced F-35 aircraft from Lockheed Martin is a major win for America’s ailing defense industrial base.

As news hit the airwaves that Israel was conducting airstrikes on military and nuclear sites in Iran, Israel commandos were on the ground inside the Islamic Republic, communicating with the Israeli Air Force and Mossad,

Iran managed to improve its strike performance and overcome Israeli air defenses during the recent 12-day war, adjusting the tactics of launching missiles and identifying the enemy's weaknesses "by trial and error,

Operationally, the Israeli campaign was indeed impressive. For 12 days, the Israeli air force ruled Iranian skies without losing a single plane. Any euphoria, however, is premature and discordant. Iran has not vanished as an enemy. And the routine state of affairs to which Israel has returned is not peacetime, but continuing war in Gaza.

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Before a ceasefire halted 12 days of war between Iran and Israel in June, a video of a group of people in uniform walking down a street surfaced in posts falsely claiming it shows Israeli air force members "quitting" to protest the fighting.

Syria’s foreign ministry says a number of soldiers and civilians have been killed by coordinated Israeli drone attacks and airstrikes near the two countries’ border.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the intergovernmental body that assesses compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was barred from going within about 40 miles of the affected facilities and has been unable to check the extent of the damage to the underground halls at Fordow and Natanz.

The Israeli military said it had struck a number of military compounds belonging to the armed group Hezbollah.