A senior security official in Kabul says the Taliban and US officials had agreed on a timeline of about 14 to 24 months for the withdrawal of the US forces.

Our politicians prefer to avoid a decisive military campaign against Hamas. But delaying it, and relying on occasional ceasefires, will cost us dearly.

"I rule out that the atmosphere is one of war, it is one of a response to an attack," Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem says in a TV interview. "Everything will be decided at its time."

MK Gideon Sa’ar, who has locked horns with PM Benjamin Netanyahu on multiple occasions, fully backs him in this upcoming election but vows to continue speaking his mind. Israelis must vote for Netanyahu because challenger Benny Gantz simply ”doesn’t have what it takes to be prime minister,” he says.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had faith that Washington would be his key ally in any confrontation with the Islamic Republic. It was Trump, after all, who withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.