Syrian society and the Syrian military themselves were also an opaque mystery to most Israelis and much of the outside world. And yet with the fall of the Assad regime only a few days before, on ...

As Israel rushed its reserves to meet the surprise Syrian-Egyptian attack opening the Yom Kippur War in 1973, it simultaneously dispatched contingents to Israeli Arab enclaves for fear of unrest.

The 1973 Arab-Israeli War — also often referred to as the Yom Kippur War, the October War, or the Ramadan War — began as a concerted attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel on October 6, 1973.

Abraham Rabinovich, author of The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East, describes the Yom Kippur War as both “the greatest military victory Israel has ever had ...

The earlier attack — which launched Arab-Israeli War, also called the Yom Kippur War — was led by Egyptian and Syrian forces. The name Yom Kippur War refers to the surprise attack, which ...

The initial days of the war were disastrous for Israel: it lost over 150 planes and its counter-attacks failed. But then Israel reversed its losses, repelling the Syrians back into Syria itself ...

Prayer rally held in Jerusalem for Syrian people on Monday night before Yom Kippur 5777. Hundreds of Israelis gathered across the country on Monday to pray for the welfare of their Syrian ...

The “Arab Mig-19 and Mig-21 units in combat” (Paperback; March 2004; 96 pages; ISBN: 9781841766553) title is not only focused on the SyAAF involvement in the Yom Kippur war.