T he Biden administration and President-elect Trump's team closely coordinated to push for Gen. Joseph Aoun to be elected as the new president of Lebanon, a U.S. official and a source familiar ...

Donald Trump inherits a Middle East that looks dramatically different from the one his administration left in 2021.

When former president Joe Biden announced the agreement Nov. 26, he said Israel would withdraw from southern Lebanon in phases. But it remained unclear how and when the withdrawals would take ...

Israel will keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past a February 18 deadline for them to withdraw, a military ...

Under the agreement, Lebanese state security forces will retake territory held by Hezbollah and the Israeli military will “gradually” withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, Biden explained. U.S.

Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, soon met with Michael Waltz, his named successor, together with me and my successor, Steve Witkoff, to map out the path from a Lebanon ceasefire ...

The White House said that a ceasefire involving Israel and Lebanon had been extended in a Sunday statement. The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, announced by former President Biden in Novem ...

the agreement gave Hezbollah 60 days to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon and required Israeli forces to withdraw over the same period. Announcing the plan, then-US President Joe Biden ...

A senior Biden administration official said the ceasefire would apply to the Israel-Lebanon "Blue Line," the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel. The allies that signed the joint statement ...