Mr Netanyahu refused even to discuss the idea ... The events of the past year have left those militias deeply weakened. Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Shia group in Lebanon, is no longer in ...

Although Trump seems to be aiding Netanyahu in extricating himself from ... of Iran’s axis and its wavering positions following Hizbullah’s losses in Lebanon and the fall of the Bashar Al ...

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has warned that Israel ... triggering a war with the Lebanese Hizbullah movement and bringing Israel into direct conflict with Iran for the first ...

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister ... Some observers call this the “Hizbullah model”, after the Shia militia which has long been Lebanon’s strongest power.

Iran is strategically weaker following the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and Israel’s assault on Hizbullah in Lebanon ... prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the ceasefire ...

Netanyahu also proclaimed he would not accept any agreement ... The assassinations of the Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar and much of Hizbullah’s senior leadership, including its general ...

Netanyahu can point to his other successes in the war, such as the killing of Hamas’s top leadership structure. Israel also neutralised Hamas’s ally, Lebanese Hizballah (also spelt Hezbollah ...

through the extraordinary exploding pagers and walkie-talkies and killing of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. But critics will claim Netanyahu has fallen short of his war aims. As long as Hamas ...

The humanitarian toll in Gaza and Hizbullah’s decision to ink a separate ceasefire ... appears to have been be pressure from the incoming Trump administration on Netanyahu to accept the deal. Many ...

Sources within Hizbullah's "March 8" bloc told the daily ... Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to preside over security consultations to discuss the situation in Lebanon.

Mr Netanyahu demurred. The deal with Hamas is a sign that he may finally be shifting in that direction, and not only because Mr Trump is more insistent. In the past year Israel has gone to war with ...