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World Jun 27

Lebanon's deal with Israel requires Hezbollah to disarm. That might be difficult

Lebanon and Israel signed the deal in Washington on Friday without Hezbollah. The agreement links Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon to the Iran-backed militant group’s disarmament, something Hezbollah rejects.

World Jun 20

U.S. and Iran to talk Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran says it closed Strait of Hormuz again

U.S. and Iranian negotiators headed to a Swiss venue Saturday for talks on adding key details to their interim agreement to halt the war, hours after Tehran said it closed the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s attacks in Lebanon…

World Jun 01

Trump says Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after mediated talks

President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanon-militant group through mediators.

World May 31

Israeli troops seize strategic castle in Lebanon during deepest incursion in decades

Israeli troops have captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in more than a quarter-century, the military said Sunday.

World May 25

Israel's military says it's striking Hezbollah sites as Netanyahu vows to 'increase the blows'

Netanyahu's warning came as Hezbollah has been firing fiber optic drones — a weapon used widely in the war in Ukraine — at Israeli forces in southern Lebanon and northern Israel in recent weeks.

World May 14

Lebanon and Israel kick off new negotiations amid fighting with Hezbollah

The Trump administration has been pushing for a breakthrough between the two neighbors that have been officially in a state of war since Israel was created in 1948.

World May 09

Israeli drone strikes kill 4 near Beirut as southern airstrikes kill at least 13

The three drone strikes south of Beirut marked another escalation since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on April 17.

World May 08

Israeli airstrikes kill 5 in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah rockets hit open areas in Israel

The strikes came hours after the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson issued an evacuation warning to the residents of six villages in Tyre province, including Toura.

World May 06

Pope Leo XIV comforts 13 priests from southern Lebanon with surprise video call

Christians make up around a third of Lebanon’s 5 million people, giving the small nation on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean the largest percentage of Christians in the Middle East.

Politics Apr 23

WATCH: Trump announces Israel and Lebanon have agreed to 3-week ceasefire extension

President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House on Thursday.

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