US Draws 'Red Line' Over Including Hezbollah in Lebanon's Government, New Envoy Says BEIRUT (AP) — A newly appointed U.S. envoy said Friday that she hoped Lebanese authorities were committed to ...

Yet, Hezbollah, once Iran's best equipped and biggest militia group in the region, issued a statement only hours after the ...

Since then, Lebanon has elected US-backed Joseph Aoun as president, and a new cabinet without a direct role for Hezbollah has taken power. That government must now fill vacant posts - including at ...

Beirut, Lebanon – Pressure on Hezbollah to ... on Aoun and the government of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam from some quarters, particularly the administration of US President Donald Trump, to ...

(CNN) — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he hopes Iran-backed Hezbollah can be disarmed this year, following an Israeli military campaign that left the group decapitated and significantly ...

Sovereignty belongs solely to Lebanon and its national components, not to America and its exclusionary and destructive projects,” he added. “A government without the national duo (Hezbollah ...

At such a critical moment in US ... and Hezbollah. “We are grateful to our ally Israel for defeating Hezbollah,” Ortagus said in a press conference, following a meeting with Lebanon’s ...

Newly appointed US envoy Morgan Ortagus emphasized the need for Lebanon’s new government to exclude Hezbollah ... cites Israeli ceasefire violations, including recent airstrikes in Sidon.

“We have set clear red lines from the United States that they (Hezbollah) won’t be able to terrorize the Lebanese people, and that includes by being a part of the government,” she added. In response, ...

Sovereignty belongs solely to Lebanon and its national components, not to America and its exclusionary and destructive projects,” he added. “A government without the national duo (Hezbollah ...