The Lebanese militant group is rebuilding its battered ranks and armaments, defying the terms of the cease-fire and raising the possibility of renewed conflict with Israel.

The fear in Jerusalem and Washington, as well as among moderates in Lebanon, is that the rearmament is paving the way toward another war

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun said Friday that any negotiations with Israel to halt its ongoing strikes on southern Lebanon -- which have continued despite a nearly year-old U.S.-brokered ceasefire -- must be mutual.

Hezbollah is rearming by smuggling weapons through seaports, as well as smuggling routes through Syria, leading Israel to lose patience with Lebanon over its commitment to disarm the terror group, the sources say. Israel was angered by recent intelligence findings on the issue, the sources add.

The Lebanese army is expected to finish its sweep of Hezbollah targets in the south by the end of this year, a considerable feat in a country in which Hezbollah was once the dominant political force.

On UNIFIL and the LAF, Zisser was blunt: “UNIFIL has less than a year; it will go. Nobody regards it as effective or as a player. It doesn’t disturb and it doesn’t contribute; it has no meaning and is generally ignored,” he noted.

Near-daily Israeli attacks have become the new normal in Lebanon, nearly a year after a U.S.-brokered truce halted the lastest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

With each passing day, it’s harder to see why Israel ever agreed to Biden’s naïve, premature ceasefire.

Iran finds itself at one of its weakest moments since its 1979 Islamic Revolution even as the wider Middle East broadly welcomes a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Over 100 Palestinians were killed, including