WATCH: Inside Hezbollah’s underground complex at Ali Taher Ridge
After besieging the Ali al-Taher Ridge for months, slowly picking off Hezbollah terrorists attempting to flee, IDF forces finally captured and destroyed the underground complex.
After besieging the Ali al-Taher Ridge for months, slowly picking off Hezbollah terrorists attempting to flee, IDF forces finally captured and destroyed the underground complex.
He kept the prayer book throughout his captivity and eventually brought it back with him to Israel, determined that the extraordinary miracle he had experienced would be remembered for generations.
In Israel, a growing therapeutic approach is offering some wounded soldiers an unusual place to confront those experiences: the ocean.
Saudi military spending is approximately $83 billion annually.
NAZA was produced in association with the far-left British newspaper, The Guardian, which frequently publishes articles critical of Israel.
The networks that pushed the tank fabrication report have a long history of publishing false stories regarding Israeli military activities.
A veteran IDF machine gunner and a former US Marine face off in a head-to-head competition testing speed, accuracy, reloads, and malfunction drills with belt-fed machine guns.
The “buddy” approach is more attractive to militaries than all robots because it combines the advantages of robotics with something machines still struggle to provide:
Israel’s unique ability to learn, adapt and rapidly turn battlefield experience into new procedures is a characteristic increasingly studied by other armies preparing for their own wars.
Weeks after conquering the stronghold and ending a months-long siege that trapped and eliminated dozens of Hezbollah terrorists, the IDF destroyed the sprawling underground complex beneath Ali Taher Ridge.
In less than five years, Israeli air‑defense contracts with EU states surpassed $15 billion, and Rafael is opening a factory in Germany at a former Volkswagen plant to produce Iron Dome components for European customers.
Covenant’s mission is straightforward yet ambitious: to produce low‑cost cruise missiles that retain the precision, range and reliability of far more expensive Western systems.
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From a regime survival perspective, an external conflict can buy time domestically, increase leverage internationally and reassert relevance regionally.
By coordinating aerial, ground and maritime systems, the new branch will standardize procurement, training, doctrine and deployment, allowing autonomous platforms to operate alongside regular forces.
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As Hamas continues stalling on disarmament, the IDF is intensifying attacks on senior commanders and hidden weapons caches throughout the Gaza Strip.
