The Israeli military has launched a 'limited' ground operation targeting Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon near the border.

The Pentagon said it was keeping a carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group in the Middle East as tensions soared.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant suggested that a possible ground invasion across the border could also happen as he vowed to 'use all the capabilities we have'

But Israel’s recent tactics have gone well beyond decapitation. As a prelude to the bombing of an apartment complex just south of Beirut, beneath which Hezbollah kept its secret headquarters, Israel detonated booby-trapped pagers held by thousands of Hezbollah military higher-ups,

Israel and Hezbollah had been locked in a low-intensity conflict since Oct. 8, when Hezbollah began firing rockets and missiles into northern Israel in what it said was an act of ‘solidarity’ with Ham

The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict struck an apartment building early Monday, killing three members of a Palestinian faction.

The escalation of violence between Israel and Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East threatened to bring the combatants closer to an all-out regional war.