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February 17, 2025 | |

‘Deployed Temporarily’: IDF Details Lebanon Lookout Posts It Will Keep Post-Withdrawal

Pullout Nearly Complete: Ahead of its February 18 deadline to withdraw from southern Lebanon, the IDF said that it would withdraw the majority of its troops from south Lebanon per...

February 7, 2025 | |

Israel SitRep: February 7, 2025

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November 26, 2024 | |

‘Designed To Be Permanent’: Israel Agrees to Ceasefire Agreement With Hezbollah

Israel to Withdraw Forces From Southern Lebanon: Israel’s cabinet accepted an American- and French-brokered ceasefire agreement on November 26 that would end fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed...

October 9, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

IDF Targets Hezbollah Command and Control Centers

The Israel Defense Forces have carried out strikes on Hezbollah’s underground command centers, the IDF said on the evening of October 8. The strikes are some of around 185 targets struck in...

September 27, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: September 27, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Hezbollah Aerial Unit Commander Eliminated in IAF Strike in Dahieh | IAF Strike That Killed Ibrahim Qubaisi on Tuesday Also Eliminated His Deputy | IAF Targeted Assassinations Continue...

August 26, 2024 | Joe Truzman |

Israel is targeting orchestrators of West Bank terrorism

Israel is leveraging the current war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and its Iranian-led allies to carry out a campaign of targeted eliminations against entities involved in terrorist activities in the West...

August 21, 2024 | |

Hezbollah Launches Fifty Rockets at Israel, Striking Town in Golan

The Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah continued to expand its attacks against targets in northern Israel on August 21, firing a barrage of more than 50 rockets...

August 21, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: August 21, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Depots for Second Consecutive Night | IDF Continues Operations in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Netzarim Corridor, IAF Strikes Some 30 Targets | IAF Uses Precision...

April 1, 2024 | |

Senior IRGC Leader Killed in Damascus Air Strike

Israel reportedly killed a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a Damascus airstrike on April 1. Mohammed Reza Zahedi was among five people who...

February 20, 2024 | |

Hezbollah Official: Our Missiles Can Reach All of Israel

A senior Hezbollah official threatened on February 19 that the Iran-backed group’s missiles can reach all of Israel, not only the north. Hassan Fadlallah, who is also a member of Lebanon’s...

February 20, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Hezbollah’s threats to northern Israel: The evolution of drone warfare

Drones have been revealed as a central aspect of the future of warfare on battlefields from Iraq to Ukraine and in conflicts between countries such as Armenia and Azerbaijan.

February 19, 2024 | |

Israel Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Caches in Lebanon

Latest Developments Israel carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah weapons caches deep inside Lebanon on February 19. The attack came in retaliation for a drone launched by the terrorist group toward...

February 14, 2024 | David Daoud |

Does Hezbollah’s Silence Link the Attack on Safed to Israel’s Strike on Nabatiyeh?

Last Thursday, Israel reportedly attempted to assassinate two high-ranking Hezbollah members: Ali Karaki, identified by media outlets as a “Hezbollah military commander” but, more significantly, “the...

October 18, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Eyeless in Gaza

How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

September 12, 2023 | Richard Goldberg, David May

Don’t give more money to the UN’s failed Palestinian refugee agency

Excerpt With heavy fighting continuing inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is asking countries for an emergency bailout...

October 5, 2016 | David Daoud |

The New Hezbollah: Israel’s Next War Will Be A Godawful Mess

However, pundits are now suggesting that when the Iranian proxy group initiates its next war with Israel, it wi...

April 7, 2016 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah’s Sunni Support Network

Hezbollah announced the death this weekend of seven of its fighters in Syria during fighting in southern Aleppo....

March 22, 2016 | Tony Badran

Hezbollah’s Growing Threat Against U.S. National Security Interests in the Middle East

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August 15, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Syria Spillover: The Growing Threat of Terrorism and Sectarianism in the Middle East

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,it is a...

December 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Is the Obama Administration Courting Hezbollah?

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer Evidence has recently emerged suggesting that the U.S. has opened a line of direct communication with the Lebanese Shia Islamist organiza...