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

Israel’s military says it won’t complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon by Sunday as outlined in its ceasefire ...

“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 ...

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

Israeli troops fired on people trying to return home to southern Lebanon and delayed a return home for northern Gaza ...

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

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.

There was jubilation in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank on Saturday as hostages and Palestinian prisoners were freed in the ...

Israel said it would keep troops in the south beyond the Sunday deadline because the Lebanese army had not yet fully deployed ...

While a cease-fire is in effect with the Palestinian Hamas in the south, the Israeli military ramped up its operations over ...

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said, in ...

Israel said its forces would remain in southern Lebanon past the 60-day withdrawal deadline set by a ceasefire agreement with ...