Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on Moscow’s reported plans to deliver advanced S-300 antimissile batteries to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russia.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton declared herself “shocked” after twin car bombs exploded in the Turkish border town of Reyhlanli claiming the lives of 46 people Saturday.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen sought to extricate his organisation from accusations of complicity in Israel’s reported air assault on Syria Monday, at a joint debate on the future of European defence cooperation with NATO with the European Parliament’s defence and foreign affairs committees.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) sought to alleviate concerns of Israeli citizens in the Golan Heights Monday, after two mortar shells fired from neighbouring Syria exploded close to the Ramat Magshimim settlement, as GOC Northern Command Maj. Gen. Yair Golan insisted “there are no winds of war” in Northern Israel.
Israeli and Turkey reached a draft agreement to compensate the families of nine Turkish activists killed in the raid of the Mavi Marmara ship as it attempted to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza in May 2010, and mend a three-year diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
The Syrian regime has reportedly prepared to launch missiles on Israel, after the Jewish State struck a series of targets in Syria in consecutive overnight attacks Saturday and Sunday.
