Bloodshed over the weekend highlighted the brittleness of the cease-fires in both places. Still, Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah each have reasons to postpone a new escalation, at least for a few weeks.

Israeli strikes hit an unofficial border crossing in eastern Lebanon early Friday morning, killing two people and wounding 10 ...

Hamas is rushing to reassert control over the territory it has ruled since 2007. Its leaders are exuberant—at least in public ...

A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group has been in place for over a month. The Israeli Air Force ...

The hostage handovers appeared to go relatively smoothly, unlike the previous one, which descended into chaos.

The director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon said on Wednesday that the agency had not been ...

Hamas freed three Israeli and five Thai hostages in Gaza while Israel freed 110 Palestinian prisoners after delaying the process in anger at the swarming crowds engulfing one of the hostage handover p ...

Hamas has confirmed for the first time that Israeli killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike last year ...

An Israeli military official express doubts over Hamas’s role in the hostage deal, fearing hidden concessions.

“We believe that Hamas can be defeated ... in the Houla area and observation posts in the Kfarkela area in southern Lebanon, the military said on Wednesday. The IDF further added that earlier ...

Israel has failed to defeat Hamas, but Palestinians in Gaza express mixed feelings about the group remaining in power.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry stated on Wednesday ... accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday. Israel has declined to respond to questions about the explosions.