IDF Commandos Destroy Turkey’s Spying Installation in Damascus Raid
Israeli Air Force strikes Yemen terror targets during Houthi chief’s speech.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly carried out a rare large-scale raid near the Syrian capital, Damascus.
IDF commandos destroyed Turkish spying equipment on a former Syrian military base in a two-hour-long raid. “An Israeli official confirmed that, during the recent operations in Syria, the military dismantled devices used by Turkey to spy on Israel,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
An Israeli official told Al-Arabiya that the IDF ground operation in Kiswah, Syria involved dismantling Turkish spying equipment used against Israel. The devices had been there for more than ten years. pic.twitter.com/iqbjUiqJKU
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) August 28, 2025
Drones and air support backed Israeli special forces during the overnight operation. “According to Syrian media, Israeli commandos landed by helicopter in al-Kiswah in the Damascus countryside and operated for more than two hours,” the Israeli news website Ynetnews reported Thursday. “The alleged raid, which Syrian sources say involved four helicopters and dozens of Israeli troops, appears to be a return—at least for now—to Israel’s former doctrine of plausible deniability.”
Since Islamist forces toppled the Iran-backed Assad regime in December 2024, Turkey has been trying to expand its sphere of influence in Syria. Turkey has been eyeing military bases and assets abandoned by the ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s forces. In April, the Israeli Air Force targeted Syrian military and airbases, which Turkey was planning to occupy.
The Israeli raid was reportedly concentrated at a former regime’s military base eight miles south of Damascus. The overnight operation came after two days of Israeli airstrikes on the army base, French news reports suggest.
A Syrian “defence ministry official told [the French news agency] AFP on condition of anonymity that at least three Israeli strikes targeted a former Syrian military base in Tal Maneh, near Kisweh,” France24 TV channel reported Tuesday.
Israeli Air Force hits Yemen terror targets during Houthi chief’s speech
Israeli fighter jets on Thursday hit Houthi targets in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, while terror chief, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, delivered a televised speech. “A short while ago, the IDF precisely struck a Houthi terrorist regime military target in the area of Sanaa in Yemen,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
🎯STRUCK: A Houthi terrorist regime military target in Sanaa, Yemen.
The Iranian-backed Houthi regime has targeted Israel, undermining regional stability and freedom of navigation.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 28, 2025
The top leadership of the Iran-backed terrorist group was targeted in the airstrike. “Pro-Iranian media outlets reported more than 10 strikes in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital and a Houthi stronghold,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported.
The Israeli daily cited a “[s]ecurity source” claiming that “[o]ne of the targets was a meeting of senior Houthi officials.”
The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of precision strikes within the last hour against several residential homes in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, reportedly belonging to senior officials with the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen. Israel states that the IDF… pic.twitter.com/OlfvY3LunN
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 28, 2025
The Israel National News/Arutz Sheva reported the details:
According to foreign reports, the strike targeted safe houses where senior Houthi officials were hiding. A defense official confirmed that several Houthi officials were meeting at the site that was targeted.
Hezbollah affiliate al-Mayadeen reported over ten strikes in the capital.
On Sunday, the Israeli Air Force hit terrorist targets near the Houthi-controlled Presidential Palace in Sanaa, along with other terror sites in the capital. The strikes came two days after the Iranian proxy terror group fired a ballistic missile with cluster munitions at Israel.
The Houthis, whose slogan says: “Allah is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam,” declared war on Israel in November 2023, a month after Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
In the past 22 months, they have fired hundreds of missiles and drones aimed at Israeli towns and cities. They have been trying to impose an illegal maritime embargo on Israel, hijacking and sinking Western-owned cargo ships in the Red Sea.
Germany, France, UK slap Iran with snapback sanctions over rogue nuclear program
Britain, France, and Germany have moved to impose ‘snapback’ sanctions on Iran after the regime recently refused to cooperate with the United Nations inspectors designated to monitor its nuclear facilities.
“France, Germany and the UK launched a 30-day process to reimpose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program on Thursday, sending a letter stating their intent to the UN Security Council,” Germany state-owned DW TV reported.
As #E3 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧, we have made every effort to reach a diplomatic solution to #Iran’s nuclear program. Today, we notified the UNSC of Iran’s significant non-performance of its #JCPoA commitments and triggered the #snapback mechanism. Full declaration 👉 https://t.co/yprrc9ml9q
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) August 28, 2025
Tehran has been blocking the reentry of international inspectors since Israel and the US targeted its rogue nuclear weapons program during the 12-Day War two months ago.
The snapback sanction “will start on 18 October” when the Obama-era “nuclear deal signed in 2015 expires,” London-based The Guardian explained. “The move by the three European powers – known as the E3 – cannot be vetoed by permanent members of the UN security council such as Russia and China.”
The official letter from the E3 invoking the U.N. snapback sanctions mechanism against #Iran's regime. Years in the making. It's a declaration of failure of the EU and UK's Iran policy. https://t.co/zpLEUVClqq pic.twitter.com/9zHWknn6tT
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) August 28, 2025
The Associated Press reported:
France, Britain and Germany have initiated the process of triggering the “snapback mechanism” that automatically reimposes all United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, saying Iran has willfully departed from their 2015 nuclear deal that lifted the measures.
The U.N. sanctions that were in effect before the 2015 deal included a conventional arms embargo, restrictions on ballistic missile development, asset freezes, travel bans and a ban on producing nuclear-related technology.
The European countries, known as the E3, offered Iran a delay of the snapback during talks in July if Iran met three conditions: resuming negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program, allowing U.N. nuclear inspectors access to its nuclear sites, and accounting for the over 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium the U.N. watchdog says it has.
Tehran, which now enriches uranium at near weapons-grade levels, has rejected that proposal. (…)
Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action reached between world powers and Iran in 2015, Iran agreed to limit uranium enrichment to levels necessary for civilian nuclear power in exchange for lifted economic sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency was tasked with monitoring Iran’s nuclear program.
The snapback mechanism’s purpose is to swiftly reimpose all pre-deal sanctions without being vetoed by U.N. Security Council members, including permanent members Russia and China.
European powers coordinated with the Trump administration before triggering the snapback mechanism. “The call between Rubio and his European counterparts was aimed at coordinating positions on “snapback” and the path forward on nuclear diplomacy with Iran, the sources said,” Axios reported Thursday.
The E3 – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – initiated a process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran. Snapback sanctions are a direct response to Iran’s continuing defiance of its nuclear commitments. The United States supports the E3’s decision and urges Iran to engage in…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 28, 2025
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That Europe won’t do.
Sanctions on Iran, recognizing Iran’s terrorist proxies in Gaza. Allowing their countries to be invaded by Muslims and arresting their citizens when they protest about being murdered and raped by the invaders. Europe has no idea what they are doing but it’s half assed as usual.
the world has proven they are against western values,,yes even the lying sackoshites of europe
only maga and these acts by israel even give us a chance on maintaining any power over the communistnazithuggs
Mullahs:
cover your wrists!
The E3 are gong to slap them with wet noodles.
How about we get the UN to pass a resolution that Iran can only use solar and wind power? It’s for the world, right? And it’s not like they don’t have a lot of windbags there. (Though, fewer than before Oct 2023.)
Israel and the IDF continue to boldly do what a shamefully and pitifully emasculated, feckless, naive, gullible and stupid dhimmi, western leadership (excepting the U.S. under #47, obviously) refuse to do, against goose-stepping, rabid, genocidal Islamofascists and Muslim terrorists.
As a double hit to Turkey Bibi recognized the Armenian genocide the other day.
So why exactly does this take thirty days ? Should be 24 hours.
Because that’s what the original Security Council resolution provided. Any attempt to reimpose sanctions earlier than that would require a new Security Council resolution, which Russia and China would veto. The whole point of the snapback provision was to bypass the need for that.
Every Nation worthy of the name conducts intelligence gathering, even from allies. Israel has repeatedly done so v the USA and we almost certainly attempt to do the same to Israel. It isn’t unusual. Not for nothing but whether we like it or lump it Turkey is a NATO member State unlike Ukraine so lets see the usual suspects advocating for Ukraine weigh in with condemnation of the Israeli action here in which they entered a neighboring Nation, Syria, to impose their will and eliminate what Israel (correctly) views as a National Security threat, the Intel gathering of another Nation.
Why should they condemn it? Just because Turkey is in NATO doesn’t mean we have to be upset when it gets attacked. It certainly doesn’t mean we have to come to its defense.
Yes, everyone spies on everyone. And everyone tries their best to thwart each other’s spying. The usual deal between allies is that when we catch each other’s spies we’re supposed to just send them home, not throw them in prison. The USA has occasionally violated that understanding. But there’s certainly no expectation that we just let them continue spying.
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Why? To be logically consistent in their outrage.
Where Nation A violates the territorial integrity of Nation B to address clandestine or overt military operation or the intelligence gathering operations conducted by Nation C …that set of events is either worthy of condemnation and outrage or it isn’t. IMO and apparently yours this is nothing to be outraged over b/c this is what Nation States do. It should be expected that a Nation State will undertake whatever actions they feel necessary to secure the security of their Nation.
My point here is the uniforms of the participants and the names of the Nations engaged in these actions shouldn’t alter whether one is outraged and condemn the actions unless one is hypocritical and demonstrates it by choosing to apply or withhold their condemnation based on the Nations engaged in the actions. For my part I find it incredibly naive that anyone would expect a Nation State not to use whatever tools at their disposal, including military force, to act against what they perceive as National Security threats or in the best interests of their Nation.
These are the snapback sanctions that Trump could have invoked on Jan-20-2017, and they would have automatically come into effect on Feb-19-2017. There would have been nothing anyone could do about it.
That was the beauty of the snapback provision in the original JCOPA, which 0bama put in, confident that it would never be used. The Security Council resolution that implemented JCOPA said that any party, at any time could file a complaint with the Security Council, alleging that the deal is being violated, and an automatic 30-day clock would start, at the end of which all UN sanctions (which had the force of binding international law) would automatically come into effect, unless, within those 30 days, the Security Council passed a resolution to stop it So rather than needing a resolution to reimpose the sanctions, which Russia or China could veto, it would require a resolution to stop them automatically snapping back into place — which the USA would be able to veto.
Trump could have invoked this provision the day he was sworn in, and then vetoed any resolution to stop the clock, and on Feb-19 the sanctions would be back in place. Russia and China would of course have ignored them, but the EU countries would have felt obligated to honor them — and if they didn’t their courts would have forced them to.
Instead Trump postured for a while, and then unilaterally pulled out of JCOPA altogether, thus forfeiting his right to invoke the snapback. By the time he did try to invoke it, the EU countries said “Too late, you’re no longer a party to the deal, so you don’t get to do that”. So the USA resumed unilateral sanctions on Iran (which Biden later removed) but for the rest of the world it was JCOPA business as usual.
This is one of the things that turned Bolton against Trump.
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