Lebanon War

WATCH: IDF kills several Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, strikes command center

On Saturday, the Associated Press reported that the IDF killed eight Hezbollah terrorists in the village of  Rayak in northeast Lebanon on Friday. 

Fire and smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on Kfar Hatta in southern Lebanon, Lebanon, January 11, 2026.
A flag of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah flutters above the rubble of a building that was hit in January by an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Qannarit, on February 16, 2026.

Hezbollah rejects disarmament plan, Lebanese government's four-month timeline

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024

IDF kills PIJ terrorists on Lebanon-Syria border as groups continue trying to smuggle weapons

 Activity of the 810th Brigade on Mount Dov.

Why Lebanon's Mount Dov is key to securing Israel’s northern border - analysis


Syrian Arab Army forces position themselves on Mount Hermon - report

Reports have surfaced recently of both Israeli and Syrian airstrikes in areas close to the border.

View of Mount Hermon covered with snow as it seen from the northern Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, January 20, 2021.

Lebanon: The tragic story of the Arab world

Lebanon must be considered a failed state, going back to the 1989 Taif agreement to end the civil war.

FIREWORKS ARE set off in front of police officers during anti-government protests on Monday in response to the massive explosion in Beirut, the previous week.

IDF to consider naming close to two-decade long campaign in south Lebanon

Twenty years after Israel withdrew from the security belt, the nameless war has often been forgotten

Lt.-Col. (res.) Shay Shemesh with members of his platoon during their time in Lebanon

COGAT: Hamas summer camp trains kids to 'commit acts of terror'

"Imagine what they could be learning instead," read the COGAT tweet.

Young Palestinians crawl under an obstacle during a military-style exercise at a Hamas summer camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 27, 2017.

Good morning, Lebanon! A look back at Israel's military retreat

Twenty years after Israel’s retreat, the analogy to America’s Vietnamese trauma still stands – mostly for the worse, but also for the better

A general view of IDF forces before the withdrawal from South Lebanon on May 1, 2000

The Four Mothers and the end of the war in Lebanon

INITIALLY, THE Four Mothers focused their message on the importance of saving the lives of their soldier sons in Lebanon through withdrawal.

PROTESTERS REPRESENTING the ‘Four Mothers’ group demand the unilateral and immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon, at a protest in Tel Aviv on June 5, 1999

Twenty years after the IDF left Lebanon, the memories are flooding back

Military Affairs: The nameless, forgotten war claimed the lives of hundreds of soldiers and left thousands more with traumatic mental scars, which for many are only now being treated.

SHAY SHEMESH: When the withdrawal happened it was a feeling of closure, but I felt like I didn’t fulfill my mission, we missed our goal.

Twenty years after Lebanon withdrawal: Return to the abyss

Today’s Israeli military and political leaders are in many ways part of the withdrawal generation, learning the time’s tough lessons.

IDF SOLDIERS pack their bags as troops prepare to leave the Lebanon border, on May 17, 2000

A four-month coincidence? The Lebanon withdrawal and the Second Intifada

While then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak downplayed the connection between the two events, officials who were deeply involved in diplomatic events at the time do connect the dots.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ehud Barak (left) attends a dinner hosted by US president Bill Clinton (second from right), with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (second from left) and Syrian foreign minister Farouq al-Shara, during talks at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in January 2000

Twenty years out of Lebanon: The war with no name that would never end

Like the War of Attrition, the conflict in Lebanon settled in Israeli consciousness.

THE WRITER interviews troops at the Shani outpost, southern Lebanon, September 1999