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Israel uncovers global IRGC terror network targeting officials

Security officials linked the paramilitary to a recent series of arrests in Azerbaijan, but said its activities spanned the breadth of Europe and into the Middle East

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Crowds gather near posters displaying assassinated military leaders, including Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC Hossein Salami (C), during a state funeral in Enqelab Square, Tehran, on June 28, 2025 (Getty Images)

Family and friends attend the funeral of IDF soldier Lidor Porat, who was killed during combat in southern Lebanon, in Ashdod on April 19, 2026 (Flash90)

Two IDF soldiers killed in Lebanon despite ceasefire

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A doctor and a young woman during a mammography test (Getty Images)

Israeli researchers make breast cancer breakthrough

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

Trump Middle East policy not driven by Israel, insists Hegseth

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Netanyahu named in Time 100 Most Influential list

The magazine praised the prime minister's longevity’ but suggested his controversial legacy could ‘poison international attitudes toward his country’

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April 16, 2026 11:36

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking the annual Yom HaShoah at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

Leaders of Israel and Lebanon to hold talks for first time since 1993

Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Aoun are set to discuss the prospect of a ceasefire on the northern border in a phone call this afternoon

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April 16, 2026 10:45

(L-R) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Lebanese Prime Minister Aoun (Getty Images)

Iran mission not complete until regime change, says outgoing Mossad chief

David Barnea told a Yom HaShoah event: ‘A regime that seeks our destruction must cease to exist’

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April 15, 2026 14:40

Head of Mossad David Barnea attends a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on April 23, 2025 (Flash90)

Israel and Lebanon ‘on the same side’ after DC talks

Pakistan has also proposed a fresh round of US-Iranian negotiations as President Trump said the war between the two is ‘very close to over’

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April 15, 2026 11:09

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) speaks during a meeting with Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad (2R) and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (2L) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

Hezbollah chief calls on Israel and Lebanon to abandon ‘pointless’ negotiations

The two nations will conduct their first direct talks in decades, with their US ambassadors set to meet in Washington

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April 14, 2026 15:24

Hezbollah’s secretary-general Naim Qassem appears on TV to address supporters on April 13, 2026, in Beirut, Lebanon (Getty Images)

Netanyahu trial delayed again after Shin Bet security warning

The service asked for the cancellation of the prime minister’s scheduled hearings due to the risk of an attack by Iranian agents

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April 14, 2026 12:05

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, on March 12, 2025 (Getty Images)

‘You will not force us into ghettos again’: Israeli ministers hit out at Europe on eve of Yom HaShoah

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the continent was ‘afflicted by profound moral weakness’, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the German chancellor to ‘bow his head and apologise a thousand times’

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April 14, 2026 10:58