Israel sends Syria tough message with Hamas strike
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Widening its pursuit of Hamas beyond the occupied territories, Israel reached into Damascus Sunday, dealing a blow to both Hamas and Syria.
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A car bomb killed a suspected Hamas  military chief in Damascus on Sunday. The Palestinian militant  group blamed Israel and vowed to retaliate.
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DAMASCUS, Syria - Israel assassinated a Palestinian militant from Hamas with a car bomb that exploded just after he started his vehicle Sunday. The killing was Israel's first slaying of a Hamas member on Syrian soil and came after weeks of warnings that members of the Islamic militant group would not be safe anywhere...
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Israel is stepping up its rhetoric against neighboring Syria, with senior officials publicly blaming Damascus for Tuesday&#39;s suicide bus bombings in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
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Taking their message to a state they don&#039;t recognize, the Hamas prime minister gave an interview to an Israeli newspaper and his top aide spoke in Hebrew on the radio Tuesday.
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Syria stood firm under a new round of pressures from the United States and Israel, seeking to strengthen solidarity with the Arab countries while brushing aside Israeli military threats.
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TONY EASTLEY: The militant Palestinian group Hamas is blaming Israel for the assassination of one of its most senior military leaders in a car-bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas, vowed on Sunday to hit Israeli targets abroad after one of its leaders was assassinated in Damascus earlier in the day.
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JERUSALEM Sept. 1, 2004 - Israel holds Syria responsible for a double suicide bombing that killed 16 people, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday in a warning that implied possible retaliation.
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Israeli security sources confirmed on Sunday that Israel was behind a car bombing in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed a senior Hamas official, reported the Israeli website of Ha&#39;aretz.
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Hamas leaders have apparently quit  Damascus following Israeli threats to target them for  assassination in retaliation for a Palestinian double suicide  bombing last week, Israel's defense minister said on Monday.
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JERUSALEM - Syria's announcement that it opened fire on Israeli aircraft invading its airspace has raised the question of why Israel would want to heighten tensions just days after stating that war with its enemy to the north was unlikely.
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Hamas yesterday promised vengeance against Israel for its assassination of one of the Palestinian group&#39;s members in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas hardened its stance yesterday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli leaders warned Syria yesterday that it bears the blame for a double suicide bombing by Hamas militants because it harbors the group's leadership, and they hinted at possible retaliation.
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In a hit claimed by Israeli security officials, a senior Hamas operative was killed in a car bombing Sunday outside his house in Damascus, the first such killing of a leader of the Islamic militant group in Syria.
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Israeli diplomatic and other missions abroad have raised their alert levels in response to threats after the assassination of Hamas terrorist Iz a Din al-Sheikh Khalil in Damascus Sunday.