The Israeli defense minister says his country's troops will stay in “security zones” in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the ...

Israel’s defense minister says its troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria ...

The border area, especially near Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and Syria's Qusayr region, has long been a corridor for illicit trade, arms trafficking, and the movement of fighters — including ...