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On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike targeted the outskirts of the southern town of al-Baysariyeh in the Sidon district, marking the second such attack since the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire came into effect. According to Israeli army radio, the strike was aimed at a site believed to house Hezbollah rocket launchpads. This follows a similar airstrike on Thursday, when the Israeli military reported …

U.S. Major General Jasper Jeffers from the Special Operations Command Central arrived in Beirut on November 27 to take up his role as co-chair of the mechanism overseeing the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon. He will work alongside Senior Advisor to the President, Amos Hochstein, according to U.S. Central Command. This mechanism, established to monitor and enforce the …

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has brought a sense of hope for normalcy back to southern Lebanon, particularly for the fishermen who have long started their days by taking their wooden boats into the Mediterranean. For the past two months, Israel’s blockade of southern Lebanon, during its conflict with Hezbollah, had kept many fishermen grounded, disrupting both their livelihoods …

Hezbollah held a public funeral in a southern Lebanese village on Friday to honor five of its fighters who were killed in the conflict with Israel. This marked the first public funeral organized by the militant group since the escalation of the war in late September. During the ceremony in the village of Maarakeh, Zeinab al-Haj, holding a bag of …

For the first time since 2016, Syrian government forces clashed with insurgents inside Aleppo, the country’s largest city, while airstrikes targeted rebel supply lines on the city’s outskirts, according to state media reports on Saturday. On Friday, insurgents breached government defenses in Aleppo, advancing into the western part of the city with minimal resistance. Their offensive, which began on Wednesday, …

Dean Sweetland surveys a desolate street in Kibbutz Malkiya, an Israeli community that overlooks the Lebanese border. Once a vibrant town, Malkiya now sits largely abandoned, a year after its evacuation. The daycare is closed, homes are neglected, and parts of the landscape are scorched from fires caused by Hezbollah rockets. Despite a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah aimed …

On Friday, representatives from Iran, Britain, France, and Germany gathered in Geneva to discuss Iran’s nuclear program amid rising tensions, especially with Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House. The meeting was shrouded in secrecy, with little information disclosed about the topics, venue, or duration of the talks. The significance of these discussions was highlighted by a warning from …

On Friday, insurgents breached the western edge of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, following the detonation of two car bombs. They clashed with government forces, marking the first attack on the city by opposition forces since 2016. That year, after months of intense fighting, Syrian government forces, supported by Russia, Iran, and allied groups, retook control of eastern Aleppo from opposition …