Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to replace his defense minister with a hawkish rival. Netanyahu’s office said he laid out the war aim...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has cautioned his Israeli counterpart that  any escalation with Lebanon’s Hezbollah  could have a “devastating” impact on the people of Israel, Lebanon and the region. Austin spoke to Yoav Gallant on Sunday after Yemen’s Houthis carried out...

Three children and another person were injured in an Israeli airstrike Saturday in the Hermel district of northern Lebanon. Warplanes “targeted the vicinity of the town of Kouakh in Hermel, resulting in the injury of four people, including three children,” according to the Health Ministry....

A surface-to-surface missile was fired at central Israel from Yemen on Sunday, hitting an unpopulated area and causing no injuries, Israel’s military said. Air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel moments before the missile landed at around 6:35 a.m. local time...