Lebanon News News Lebanon » Politics: Lebanon's president will meet with Trump in Washington to push for Israeli troop withdrawal
Lebanon's president will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday to wrap up a four-day visit to Washington, in a bid to bring about long-term calm in the war-torn country after months of war ...
News Lebanon » Politics: Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun meets Rubio ahead of Trump talks
Aoun is expected to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday, as Beirut seeks US backing to end Israel-Hezbollah fighting.
News Lebanon » Politics: As its support in Lebanon wanes, Hezbollah faces a difficult decision about its future
Hamas announced this month it would dissolve its government in Gaza to transfer control to a US-backed Palestinian committee. This was one of the mandates of the US-brokered peace deal between Israel ...
News Lebanon » Politics: Lebanon and Israel move toward implementing withdrawal agreement, US officials say
BEIRUT (AP) — After two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Rome, Lebanon and Israel took steps toward implementing “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces would withdraw and turn over ...
News Lebanon » Politics: Israel-Lebanon Deal May Entrench Stalemate Rather Than End War, Analysts Say
A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel's underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon to the ...
News Lebanon » Politics: Iran says its expelled ambassador won't leave Lebanon as political tensions soar
BEIRUT — Iran on Monday defied Lebanon's expulsion order for its ambassador by saying he would stay, further increasing tensions in a country in the crosshairs of the latest fighting between the ...
News Lebanon » Politics: The prognosis for Lebanon? A possibly healthier outcome
The United States must continue pushing forward on the Israel-Lebanon track, building on Washington’s leverage with both sides and the recent diplomatic framework.
News Lebanon » Politics: Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University (THE CONVERSATION) Lebanon was meant ...