Tel Aviv | The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased after Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation, but Iran still poses a significant danger as it weighs a strike on Israel, America’s top general says.

Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke on Monday (Tuesday AEST) following a three-day trip to the Middle East in which he flew into Israel just hours after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at the country, and Israel’s military struck Lebanon to thwart a larger attack.

Reuters