The Pentagon said on Monday a ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces around the northern Syrian city of Manbij was holding.

The Houthis are far away from Israel and use ballistic missiles and drones to threaten Israel. Hezbollah suffered a drubbing in a two month war from September 23 to November 27, but they are saying that at the end of the 60-day ceasefire that began in late November,

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations has issued a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis: Halt missile attacks on Israel or risk the same miserable fate as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria's Bashar al-Assad if they persist.