Lebanon's Hezbollah has been significantly degraded militarily by Israel, but the Iran-backed group will likely try to rebuild its stockpiles and forces and pose a longterm threat to the U.S. and its regional allies,

Israel threatened on Tuesday to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses, and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself, after the deadliest day since the ceasefire was agreed last week.

Israel said it hit dozens of Hezbollah targets in strikes on Lebanon Monday after vowing retaliation for an attack claimed by Hezbollah, the militant group's first since a fragile ceasefire

Turkey will be the key player in ending the rebel push by Syrian insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s economy has collapsed: unemployment is high, inflation higher. The army is full of young men pressganged into long service for low pay. Mr Assad might find loyalists willing to fight for their own villages,