Israel secretly deployed elite military and intelligence personnel to Azerbaijan during the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran as part of a broader network of covert positions established across the Middle East to support operations against the Islamic Republic, according to a report published Friday.
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Mir Hossein Mousavi was focus of 2009 mass protests after he was declared loser of disputed election; his condition is said to have worsened after Feb. 28 airstrike damaged his home
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Team set to land in Mexico on Sunday, where it'll be based amid state of war with US, will play first game against New Zealand on June 15
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With Iran and Lebanon campaigns in the balance, and months before elections, dressing-down leaves Israelis suspicious that premier has lost control of life-or-death decisions
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President says he mulled sending troops to seize near-weapons-grade stockpile at war's start, but declined to do so given the risks: 'I don’t want to do it if we’re in conflict'
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Operations by dozens of commandos and Mossad agents along Iran's northern border included killing of IRGC special operations chief, CNN says; Baku rejects 'entirely baseless' report
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In 10 hours of congressional testimony that barely touched on Ukraine, Rubio says risk of escalation with Russia is 'more real than it was two years ago'
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Iranian officials on Thursday denied bombing the Kuwait airport and insisted ceasefire talks with the United States are proceeding.
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announced a ceasefire plan with Israel, but it was quickly rejected by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists.
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DC said to demand signing of a deal in Geneva next week; US embassy in Jerusalem warns citizens 'security environment can change quickly,' tells them to check where nearest shelter is
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Two days after another ceasefire was announced between Israel and U.S. terrorist designated group Hezbollah, Yulia Bar-Dan was standing outside her temporary home in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel when the familiar sound of an interceptor echoed overhead.
"There will probably be another siren soon," she told Fox News Digital.
Minutes later, an alert appeared on her phone warning residents in northern Israel to take shelter.
For Bar-Dan, the scene captured the reality of life on Israel's northern border nearly two years after Hezbollah joined the war against Israel on Oct. 8, 2023.
After Hezbollah entered the recent war in support of Iran, Washington launched a diplomatic effort aimed at turning the ceasefire into a broader arrangement for Lebanon.
Multiple rounds of talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials have taken place in Washington, and President Donald Trum repeatedly has announced ceasefire understandings aimed at restoring calm along the border. Residents of communities like Manara, Israel, say the rockets, drones and uncertainty never really stopped.
"A ceasefire is supposed to be on both sides," she said. "Not that Hezbollah keeps shooting at us and we just keep absorbing it."
When Fox News Digital first spoke to Bar-Dan in December 2024 during the war, she and her husband had fled Manara, Israel, with their three children and were living out of a single hotel room, unsure whether they would ever return home.
Today, roughly 200 of the kibbutz's 280 residents have returned, Bar-Dan said. But many, including Bar-Dan's family, still cannot live in their original homes because of war damage.
Despite repeated ceasefire announcements, residents say normal life remains elusive.
"There hasn't really been a routine or a quiet day since February," she said.
Schools officially reopened in early June, but Bar-Dan decided not to send her children.
"They take the bus to school," she said. "What if there's a siren on the way? I can't take that chance."
Her frustration is not directed at Hezbollah alone.
Like many residents interviewed by Fox News Digital, Bar-Dan says there is a growing disconnect between the reality experienced on the border and the reality described by politicians.
"It doesn't really matter where the decisions are being made," she said. "The decisions just need to match reality. Right now there is a decision, but the reality is completely different."
A year and a half after most of Manara's residents were evacuated amid fears of a Hezbollah invasion, community leader Yochai Wolfin says residents have developed their own name for the current situation.
"We call it 'the ceasefire war,'" he said.
The phrase has become common in the community.
First came a year and a half of evacuation. Then came the return home. Then came what Wolfin describes as three months of "fire within a ceasefire."
The uncertainty has become part of daily life.
Children study inside shelters. Parts of the kibbutz still lack protected rooms. Construction projects remain unfinished because contractors are reluctant to work so close to the border.
He said many residents increasingly feel that the decisions determining their future are being made far from the communities that bear the consequences.
ISRAEL WARNS IT WILL GO AFTER LEBANON DIRECTLY IF CEASE-FIRE WITH HEZBOLLAH COLLAPSES
"Who knows what tomorrow will bring?" Wolfin said. "We know who is calling the shots. We saw it a few days ago when Trump announced another ceasefire. But for us, the reality on the ground hasn't changed."
The comments come as Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned Thursday that northern Israel would remain unsafe as long as Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon, according to Reuters.
In a written statement broadcast on June 4, 2026, Qassem condemned the Washington-mediated framework as "absurd, humiliating, and insulting," calling it a roadmap for surrender.
For residents of Israel's northern border communities, the statements reinforced what many say they have been experiencing for months: a ceasefire that exists on paper but not in daily life.
Naor Shamia, who heads Manara's emergency response team, says residents increasingly worry that temporary emergency measures are becoming permanent.
"The fear isn't today," he said. "The fear is that this becomes years. We are in a deadlock."
Across the border region, similar concerns are heard.
In the community of Adamit, resident Yael Cohen-Arazi described the contrast between the beauty surrounding her and the reality of living under constant threat.
"Every morning I wake up and think I'm living in paradise," she said in footage provided to Fox News Digital by the Israeli news agency TPS-IL. "Then there are the explosions that shake my soul."
Her children, she said, have spent so much of their lives under fire that they no longer know what normal looks like.
"I tell them there are children who don't live like this," she said.
Back in Manara, Israel, another alert interrupted the afternoon.
Bar-Dan says she is not angry anymore. Mostly, she is tired and sad.
"I feel bad for the soldiers," she said. "Every day there is another casualty, and there is still no solution."
Yet she insists she is staying.
"This is our home," she said. "Someone has to live on the borders of this country."
Then another explosion sounded in the distance.

Der Krieg der USA gegen den Iran hat seine Anfangsphase hinter sich gelassen und tritt nun in eine neue Phase ein – eine Phase, in der der Iran implizit darauf setzt, dass die nächste Phase ein Krieg sein wird. Höchstwahrscheinlich wird es sich dabei um kurze Episoden eines begrenzten Krieges handeln, die jedoch das Potenzial [...]
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Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women’s rights, has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday.
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Satrapi is best known for her graphic novel and film 'Persepolis,' a coming-of-age tale set against the Islamic Revolution; reports say she 'died of sadness' after husband's death
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Die Kriege in der Ukraine und im Iran zeigen, wie die Großmächte USA und Russland ihre Gegner unterschätzen und sich selbst in strategische Sackgassen manövrieren. Nun ringen Putin und Trump um eine Ausstiegsstrategie.
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Der 3. Juni 2026 markiert einen Wendepunkt im westasiatischen Krieg — nicht weil die Waffen schweigen, sondern weil die Propagandafassaden beider Seiten sichtbare Risse bekommen. Was sich am Golf und in der Levante abspielt, ist nicht nur eine militärische Eskalation. Es ist ein Informationskrieg, in dem alle Parteien lügen — aber nicht alle gleich gut. [...]
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Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a U.S.-brokered ceasefire framework contingent on Hezbollah ending its attacks.
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Four Republicans vote with Democrats on bill to limit Trump's authority, after GOP speaker of the House tried to prevent display of opposition against president
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday announced sanctions against four Iranian digital asset exchanges, including Nobitex, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Iran.
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During a lengthy interview that aired on CNBC on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed the perception that the strikes on Iran were unpopular.
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US president insists 'we will get' Iran's uranium stockpile, says he wants separate end to Lebanon conflict; Iran's FM says Israeli attack on Beirut would trigger renewal of war
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Kuwaiti officials said on Wednesday that at least one person was killed and 63 injured by an Iranian missile and drone attack on the Kuwait International Airport.
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New factory orders data released Wednesday confirm an extraordinary surge in American defense manufacturing, with orders for defense capital goods running 53 percent above last year’s pace through the first four months of 2026 as the military works to replenish
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