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Trump names Gaza’s ‘Stabilization Force’ commander who played key role in Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Major-General Jasper Jeffers has decades of experience in the US military and has played a key role in the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.

Brigadier General Jasper Jeffers, the deputy commanding general of maneuver for 3rd Infantry Division, speaks to attendees during his farewell ceremony at Fort Stewart, Georgia, US May 26, 2022.
Hezbollah supporters hold images of late former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and current leader Naim Qassem at a ceremony held by Hezbollah to commemorate the first anniversary of Hassan Nasrallah's killing by Israel, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, September 27, 2025.

Lebanese officials deny any links between army and Hezbollah after IDF strike in southern Lebanon

An Israeli soldier guards on the border fence between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, November 16, 2025

Lebanon-Israel truce committee talks widen as Hezbollah disarmament deadline nears

Members of the Lebanese army secure the area near the site of an Israeli strike, after Israeli military said on Sunday that it struck a terrorist from Hezbollah, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon November 23, 2025.

Lebanese MP slams Hezbollah for Beirut strike, says 'time is up, now we need actions'


What a difference 50 years can make

The world in the spring of 1967 was very different than the world as it is today.

Israeli troops near Rafah during the Six Day War

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What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East

Bronze statues of North Korea’s late founder Kim Il-sung and late leader Kim Jong Il as they offer flowers to the statues in Pyongyang this week, to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army

Lebanese leader calls Hezbollah media tour a ‘strategic mistake’

Terrorist group fighter tells press it’s ready to carry out Nasrallah’s threats.

A HEZBOLLAH FIGHTER conducts a media tour of the Lebanese border with Israel yesterday

Analysis: Hezbollah's road to regaining legitimacy goes through Israel

Hezbollah's legitimacy in the Arab world and Lebanon has taken a serious hit due to its involvement in the Syrian civil war. Nasrallah knows that the threat he serves to Israel can fix this.

Hassan Nasrallah during a video broadcast.

10 stories on 10 years after the Second Lebanon War

The Second Lebanon War and what may come next.

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard on the Israel-Lebanon border (2007)

Analysis: Was the Second Lebanon War a success?

Ten years later, more and more Israelis are changing their opinions.

A LEBANESE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER runs for cover upon hearing Israeli jets above the village of Kfarjouz in 2006.

IDF releases dramatic audio of 2006 Lebanon war rescue operation

A decade ago, Golani's 51 Battalion became entangled in a deadly firefight with Hezbollah in Bint Jbil; For the first time, communications from that battle surface.

AN ISRAELI soldier stands near a mobile artillery unit as it fires a shell into southern Lebanon on July 13, 2006, a day after IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted by Hezbollah

A fire-based campaign

In July 2006, Gal Hirsch led his division to war only to find not everyone was on the same page. Here is an excerpt from his new book:

IDF soldiers walk together after leaving Lebanon near the Israel-Lebanon border in August 2006

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

Despite anguish, Miki Goldwasser, mother of captured and killed reserve soldier Ehud, says the war was a great victory.

MIKI GOLDWASSER

Analysis: Reflections on the Second Lebanon War, 10 years on

It is now evident that no coherent and achievable plan for the conduct of the war had been decided upon at the rushed and overheated cabinet meeting that set it in motion.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks atop an Israeli tank that had been lost during the First Lebanon War, in Moscow yesterday.