JERUSALEM (NEW YORK TIMES) — The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations. The military [...]

(DEBKAfile) — Intelligence and Persian Gulf sources report that on August 30, Hizballah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, Hizballah appears to be preparing a major attack on Israel straight after the ceremonial start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington [...]

(THE JERUSALEM POST) – The US warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours, Israel Radio cited a report by Lebanese newspaper A-Liwaa on Friday. According to the report, Frederick Hoff, assistant to [...]

(DEBKAfile) — The Obama administration and Netanyahu government greeted the start-up of Iran’s first nuclear reactor at Bushehr with extraordinary meekness, given the grim military and strategic hazards it represents for the region and Israel in particular. Yet nary a squeak of protest came from Washington or Jerusalem when Russian technicians began loading 162 rods [...]

(AP) — Trucks rumbled into Irans first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the countrys peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power [...]

(DEBKAfile) — War preparations are reported by DEBKAfile‘s military sources in Tehran and Damascus. In Tehran, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced Friday, Aug. 20: “IRGC is in full readiness to encounter firmly with the stupidity of the US and the Zionist regime.” In Damascus, Syrian prime minister Naji al-Otari gathered his ministers and heads of security [...]

(DEBKAfile) — The crossing of the US 4th Stryker Brigade and 2nd Infantry Division from Iraq into Kuwait Thursday morning, Aug. 19, ended America’s combat involvement in the seven and-a-half year Iraq war. DEBKAfile’s military and Baghdad sources note that, for Washington, the war which cost 4,400 American lives and $1 trillion – is over, [...]

(THE WASHINGTON POST) – Amid threats from North Korea, 86,000 U.S. and South Korean troops on Monday launched their latest round of joint military exercises, described by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak as a deterrent against war. On Sunday, North Korea threatened to respond to the drills with what a military spokesman called the “severest [...]

(DEBKAfile) — US and Israeli military sources told debkafile Thursday, Aug. 12, that a threat from Georgia was not the reason why Russian posted advanced S-300 interceptor batteries Russia in Abkhazia and air defense weapons in South Ossetia on the northern shore of the Black Sea -as Moscow officially maintained, but rather possible moves by [...]

(VOA) — A former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says Iran has dug mass graves to bury U.S. soldiers in preparation for an American attack on the country. In an interview with the Associated Press, former Iranian General Hossein Kan’ani Moghadam said the graves have been dug in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province. Moghadam said this [...]

Add this to the many other voices all proclaiming Israel is about to make a major move against Lebanon and/or Iran. Keep looking up, dear brothers and sisters! The world is about to change dramatically! — PID (DEBKAfile) — Israel has handed Lebanon an ultimatum. Before a line can be drawn on the Lebanese-Israeli clash [...]

Aug 4, 1020 | By Sean Osborne, Associate Director (NORTHEAST INTELLIGENCE NETWORK) –  Approximately three and one-half years ago I wrote a brief report regarding a firefight between troops of the Lebanese Army and Israeli Defense Forces on Februrary 8, 2007. That was a reminder of a similar firefight between the Lebanese Army and the [...]

(GLOBAL CRISIS NEWS) — According to state media reports, Fidel Castro, former leader of Cuba is set to address the country’s National Assembly on Saturday 7th August to warn of an imminent nuclear war involving the U.S., Israel and Iran. [emphasis PID] The former leader had formally requested a “meeting of the National Assembly… to [...]

(DEBKAfile) — The border tensions brewing between Lebanon and Israel in recent weeks boiled over Tuesday, Aug. 3 into a heavy exchange of fire between troops on both sides of the border. IDF casualties are reported by foreign sources. The Lebanese report three soldiers and several civilians killed, as well as a number injured. The [...]