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Middle East

Israel wants US-led force to disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah

Lebanon prefers the UN to continue to provide peacekeeping functions at the fraught southern border but its mandate expires in three months

Shi'ite mourners stand in front of a banner with pictures of Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, as they mark Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in the southern suburbs of Beirut
Middle East

Trump wants to talk to Hezbollah. Will they pick up the phone?

Sources inside the group are being coy about negotiating directly, while Israel and Iran have their own reasons to keep the calls from getting through

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Middle East

Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality

Officials in Beirut know that any agreement with Israel would be dead on arrival at home

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QiOSK

Next 72 hrs will tell us whether Israel plans to kill Trump peace

News from White House suggests Trump imposing limits on partner Netanyahu and that US did not provide missile defense in latest exchange of fire

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Iran strikes Israel, proving it will use hard power on behalf of Lebanon

This also drives a further wedge between Netanyahu and Trump, who reportedly doesn't want Tel Aviv to retaliate

Nothing more dangerous than a Netanyahu scorned
Middle East

Nothing more dangerous than a Netanyahu scorned

Trump's Iran deal was not his idea and worse, it's getting in the way of the Israeli leader's political survival. Lebanon, unfortunately, will pay the price.