Joseph Aoun

Araghchi to visit Pakistan for negotiations, Netanyahu orders IDF to 'vigorously' attack Hezbollah

Dozens of Palestinians breach IDF checkpoints to enter Jenin refugee camp • US envoys' Pakistan visit canceled • Hezbollah violates ceasefire with Israel, launches projectiles at North

People carry the coffins of three Hezbollah terrorists during their funeral ceremony, amid a temporary ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in the village of Al-Halloussiyah, southern Lebanon, April 25, 2026.
IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon on April 22, 2026.

Inside the vortex: Why Israel keeps getting dragged into the Lebanese mud

Commuters wait at a traffic signal beside a digital screen in Islamabad on April 24, 2026.

Iran says no talks planned with US as American envoys to head to Pakistan

Israel Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, Lebanon Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad, US President Donald Trump, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and US Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office, April 23, 2026.

WATCH: Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to extend by three weeks, Trump says, after talks at White House


US envoy says Israel should 'comply' with Lebanon plan to disarm terrorist groups

Under phase 1 of the plan, the Lebanese government would issue a decision committing to Hezbollah's disarmament by the end of the year, and Israel would cease military operations in Lebanon.

 U.S. envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack stands at U.S. ambassador's residency in Damascus, Syria May 29, 2025.

Israel Katz says Lebanon's Aoun responsible for Hezbollah violations after IDF strike

The IDF said it struck on Friday evening an active Hezbollah military outpost, as well as underground infrastructure, in southern Lebanon's Beaufort Ridge.

Defense Minister Israel Katz on a tour in the Gaza Strip, August 5, 2025.

Hezbollah chief warns Lebanon: 'No life' if government confronts terror group

This comes after President Joseph Aoun told a senior Iranian official on Tuesday that no group in Lebanon is permitted to bear arms or rely on foreign backing.

Hezbollah's then-deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem seen in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, August 2, 2024