On Tuesday, Israeli ground troops stormed across the border. (Israeli forces already occupy five positions captured during the previous war, in addition to other southern territory that they have held for decades.) The Lebanese Army, which is supplied by the U.S., is not authorized to engage Israel except in self-defense; it withdrew some troops from…
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has fired rockets at the Tel Aviv area in Israel for the first time since the beginning of the current Iran war. The Israeli military announced on Tuesday after sirens blared in the coastal metropolis that several projectiles had been identified as having flown from Lebanon to Israel. They…
In his announcement unveiling U.S. attacks on Iran, President Trump assailed the Islamic Republic’s “proxies” in the region. “From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts,” Trump declared Saturday. The United States, Trump vowed, was determined to…