A major US-Israel military campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, has escalated into a broad regional conflict spanning multiple countries. Israel has conducted large-scale strikes on Tehran including residential areas,

By Maayan Lubell and Nazih Osseiran JERUSALEM/BEIRUT March 14 (Reuters) - Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold direct talks in the coming days, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Saturday, in what would be a diplomatic milestone between the two states as Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah wage war.

Since Mr Trump has never made clear what he hoped to achieve through this war, it is not surprising that he is vague about when it might end. At the start of the war, Messrs Trump and Netanyahu were united in their stated aim of destroying Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Now, though, Israel and America’s end goals may be diverging.