Christina Goldbaum

During peace talks, President Trump repeatedly floated the idea that Syria could help subdue Hezbollah in Lebanon. The proposal revived bitter memories.

The Israeli military says thousands of troops have surrounded a large tunnel network in southern Lebanon. The standoff is at the center of intense clashes in the area recently.

It was not clear whether the new directive would resolve the friction that led to deadly clashes on Friday and Saturday and threatened to derail a preliminary U.S.-Iran peace deal.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, once seen as a secondary front to the American-Israeli war on Iran, has become one of the main obstacles to ending it.

The city of Nabatieh once spoke to the changing fortunes of Lebanon. Now, amid unending war, it speaks to the country’s worst fears.

The conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran looms over a state that has been pummeled by military strikes but has little say in determining its own future.

Thousands fled the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced the widening of the military campaign against Hezbollah.

Few in Lebanon believe that diplomatic efforts to end the wider war will bring peace to their country, as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah intensify in the south.

Few in Lebanon believe that diplomatic efforts to end the wider war will bring peace to their country, as clashes between Israel and Hezbollah intensify in the south.

In the relative calm of the early days of a cease-fire, there were heart-rending scenes as people exhumed their loved ones from temporary graves and reburied them.

With the cease-fire fraying and Israel demolishing villages in the south, many Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are putting aside their annoyance with the group and turning to it for protection.

The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.