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David’s Sling launching a SkyCeptor missile With a ceasefire announced in Gaza, it’s crucial to apply the lessons-learned to a likely future conflict with Hezbollah, and likely Iran, in Lebanon and beyond. As The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) has laid out in a comprehensive report, this looming war will be unprecedentedly …

A United Nations-backed tribunal has found a member of the Lebanese group Hezbollah guilty of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a massive bomb blast in 2005.  While Salim Ayyash was convicted, the three other Hezbollah suspects were cleared of the charges on Tuesday. The verdict by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) – …

Iran now has an effective military advantage over the US and its allies in the Middle East because of its ability to wage war using third parties such as Shia militias and insurgents, according to a military thinktank. In one of the most detailed assessments of Iran’s strategy and doctrine across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and …

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah has said it has downed an Israeli unmanned aircraft outside a southern Lebanese town after it crossed the border. The Israeli drone is now in the hands of Hezbollah’s fighters, the Iranian-backed group said. The Israeli military said one of its drones “fell inside southern Lebanon during routine operations”. In a statement, …

Smoke rises near Moshav Avivim near the border between Israel and Lebanon, in northern Israel, September 1, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90. (photo credit: DAVID COHEN/FLASH 90) BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Hezbollah downed an Israeli unmanned aircraft outside the southern town of Ramyah near the border with Israel, the movement’s Al-Manar TV said early …

Israel’s military said it has fired into southern Lebanon after a number of anti-tank missiles targeted an Israeli army base and vehicles near the border. The missiles hit several of their targets on Sunday, said the Israeli army, which said it returned fire following the attack. According to Hezbollah, the missiles launched from Lebanon destroyed …

Israel has positioned mannequins of soldiers in jeeps along the Lebanon border, according to Lebanese and Israeli correspondents, as the army braces itself for an expected attack from Hezbollah. Ali Shueib, who works for Hezbollah’s al-Manar satellite TV station, tweeted photos of what appeared to be two military off-road vehicles. In the front sat yellowish …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader vowed Sunday to shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace from now on after one allegedly crashed and another exploded in Beirut overnight. Hassan Nasrallah said during a speech that one of the drones had been flying low among buildings and was clearly on a military “suicide mission,” which he called …