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WATCH: IDF uncovers expansive Hezbollah tunnel complex under Beaufort Castle

At the end of May, the IDF announced that it had captured the Beaufort Ridge, which it had previously held between 1982 and 2000, when Israeli forces withdrew from Lebanon.

The IDF released footage of IDF soldiers inside tunnels under Beaufort, southern Lebanon, published June 7, 2026.
A protester burns fake US dollars during a pro-Iranian regime demonstration in front of the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, on January 18, 2026.

Lebanon burns foreign reserves to hold pound steady in face of devastating war losses - analysis

Then-defense minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with IDF soldiers after a battle with Palestinian gunmen at Beaufort Castle, southern Lebanon, June 7, 1982.

On This Day: Palestinian terrorists attempt assassinating Israeli ambassador, prompting Lebanon War

This picture taken from Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, shows an Israeli flag and a Golani Brigade flag fluttering atop the medieval Beaufort Castle in Arnoun on June 1, 2026.

IDF recaptures Beaufort in Lebanon, is this a tactical win or a strategic illusion? - opinion


Lebanese leader calls Hezbollah media tour a ‘strategic mistake’

Terrorist group fighter tells press it’s ready to carry out Nasrallah’s threats.

A HEZBOLLAH FIGHTER conducts a media tour of the Lebanese border with Israel yesterday

Analysis: Hezbollah's road to regaining legitimacy goes through Israel

Hezbollah's legitimacy in the Arab world and Lebanon has taken a serious hit due to its involvement in the Syrian civil war. Nasrallah knows that the threat he serves to Israel can fix this.

Hassan Nasrallah during a video broadcast.

10 stories on 10 years after the Second Lebanon War

The Second Lebanon War and what may come next.

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard on the Israel-Lebanon border (2007)

Analysis: Was the Second Lebanon War a success?

Ten years later, more and more Israelis are changing their opinions.

A LEBANESE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER runs for cover upon hearing Israeli jets above the village of Kfarjouz in 2006.

IDF releases dramatic audio of 2006 Lebanon war rescue operation

A decade ago, Golani's 51 Battalion became entangled in a deadly firefight with Hezbollah in Bint Jbil; For the first time, communications from that battle surface.

AN ISRAELI soldier stands near a mobile artillery unit as it fires a shell into southern Lebanon on July 13, 2006, a day after IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted by Hezbollah

A fire-based campaign

In July 2006, Gal Hirsch led his division to war only to find not everyone was on the same page. Here is an excerpt from his new book:

IDF soldiers walk together after leaving Lebanon near the Israel-Lebanon border in August 2006

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

Despite anguish, Miki Goldwasser, mother of captured and killed reserve soldier Ehud, says the war was a great victory.

MIKI GOLDWASSER

Analysis: Reflections on the Second Lebanon War, 10 years on

It is now evident that no coherent and achievable plan for the conduct of the war had been decided upon at the rushed and overheated cabinet meeting that set it in motion.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks atop an Israeli tank that had been lost during the First Lebanon War, in Moscow yesterday.

10 years on, border residents remember fears in Second Lebanon War

I feel another conflict is coming, says Peki’in resident • IDF intel head: No army has had more info on its enemies than we have on Hezbollah.

A general view shows the Lebanese-Israeli border as seen from Kfar Kila village, southern Lebanon December 21, 2015

Renewed fighting in Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp kills one

Ain al-Hilweh camp, near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, has regularly seen factional disputes spiral into deadly violence.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick