Lebanon’s Cease-Fire Buys Time, Not a Way Out
The country’s leadership secured a truce through risky talks with Israel, but the government now finds itself caught between competing pressures.
The country’s leadership secured a truce through risky talks with Israel, but the government now finds itself caught between competing pressures.
The Mossad head said Israel’s mission would not be complete until the Iranian regime was replaced, after criticism that the war has left Iran’s theocratic government in place.
Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, reports from the city of Tyre in Lebanon amid widespread evacuation warnings and incoming Israeli strikes in Israel’s war with Hezbollah.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said that the world cannot risk reverting “to the law of the jungle.” Beijing has taken a more active role diplomatically as the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz persists.
The regime in Iran has not changed and the nuclear and missile threats have not been eliminated, leaving many Israelis to wonder what this was all for.
In Tyre, a city on Lebanon’s coast, near-daily bombardments by Israel have killed and injured civilians, and left many searching for shelter.
From sanctions relief to nuclear talks, here’s a look at how negotiations between Washington and Tehran have gone over the decades.
At least 70 people are in the team that is scheduled to negotiate with the American side in Pakistan on Saturday.
While President Trump’s war aims have changed by the moment, Iran has stuck to firm demands. The question is whether it will compromise in peace negotiations.
With U.S. and Iranian leaders heading to Pakistan for negotiations amid a two-week cease-fire, the two sides must resolve major differences on Lebanon, the Strait of Hormuz and frozen Iranian assets.