Iran has said that the halt in fighting is a victory for Hezbollah. But behind the scenes, officials worked quietly for a cease-fire to stem the group’s losses.

President Biden announced Tuesday that Israel has reached a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon that would end nearly 14 months of fighting.

Israel's military opened fire Thursday morning in southern Lebanon, a day after reaching a cease-fire agreement in the area with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.

At the same time, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which joined its ally Hamas on 8 October, 2023, by launching missiles at Israeli military sites, stubbornly refused to de-link its “solidarity front” with Gaza despite increasingly painful attacks by Israel on its fighting capabilities as well as the Shia population of Lebanon,

A confidential clause in the U.S.-Israel side agreement to the Lebanon ceasefire deal focuses on the Islamic Republic, Hebrew media reported on Wednesday. Dubbed the “Iranian clause” by Israeli officials,

The ceasefire in Lebanon will allow him to focus on Iran and on Syria, through which Hezbollah’s weapons are transported. But the underlying factors are Iran’s nuclear program and Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Israeli armed forces conducted airstrikes on a Hezbollah facility in southern Lebanon on Thursday. These were intended as a response to detected terrorist activities violating the ceasefire. The IDF is deployed in southern Lebanon,