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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

By Melanie Swan

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

Hungary

Hungary to rejoin ICC after Magyar wins landslide

By Jacob Jaffa

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

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu trial delayed again after Shin Bet security warning

By Melanie Swan

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Israel

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

By Jacob Jaffa

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By Stephen Pollard

Lewis Goodall and Israel’s alleged world domination

3 min read

El Al

El Al to resume flights to nine destinations after Iran ceasefire

By Jacob Jaffa

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Incoming Mossad Director Major General Roman Gofman arrives to a Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 5, 2026 (Flash90)

Israel

Who is the new head of Mossad?

By Jacob Jaffa

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IDF ‘preparing’ for return to Iran War after US talks break down

President Trump, meanwhile, has threatened to blockade Iran’s ports until a peace deal is achieved

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

April 13, 2026 10:25

Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a large portrait of Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, on April 9, 2026, in Tehran, Iran (Getty Images)

By Andrew Fox

I stood in a Hezbollah tunnel. The UK is wrong to treat Israel as the problem

London should stand with Jerusalem while helping the Lebanese state finally end the grip of Iran’s terror proxy

3 min read

April 12, 2026 11:01

Israeli defensive wall at the Lebanese border (all images courtesy of Andrew Fox)

By Lottie Cannon

Keeping calm (and kosher for Pesach) and carrying on while visiting Israel at war

The evacuation of the beach is a silent, practised choreography. Once the phones ping with the all-clear, we filter back out, and within moments the volleyball has started up again

4 min read

April 10, 2026 11:40

Tel Aviv beach during the war with Iran (Image: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

By Yaakov Katz

Lebanese peace talks show how Iran war is reshaping the Middle East

The Islamic Republic is weaker, Hezbollah is exposed and Israel is testing whether military gains can be turned into diplomatic opportunity

4 min read

April 10, 2026 10:28

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l); Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam (Image: Getty)

Netanyahu announces talks with Lebanese government as strikes continue despite Iran ceasefire

Hezbollah has continued to launch rockets at Israel, some reaching as far south as Ashdod, while the IDF bombards the terror group’s infrastructure

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

April 10, 2026 10:24

A fireball rises from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in the area of Abbasiyeh, on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, on April 8, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Stephen Pollard

The Iran victory myth and the ceasefire of a battered regime

The military achievements against the Islamic Republic are staggering and by striking the Gulf states, Tehran has driving them closer to the US and Israel

4 min read

April 8, 2026 10:00