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French soldier serving with UNIFIL killed in Lebanon attack

Lebanon was seen as a boost to efforts for an agreement to end the US-Israel war on Iran. Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said fighting between Israel and Hezbollah had been a key sticking

Lebanese return to devastated south as fragile 10-day truce takes hold

talks between the US and Iran, welcomed the Israel-Lebanon truce on Friday and expressed “hope that it will pave the way for sustainable peace”. He also praised the mediation [role

What we know about the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel

Israel said it did not. UN Secretary General António Guterres commended the role of the US in facilitating the ceasefire, and urged all parties to "fully respect" and "comply with international law at all times

Iran war: What is happening on day 50 of the US-Iran conflict?

Israel ‘agreements’:** President Joseph Aoun says Lebanon is nearing a [“new phase”](/news/2026/4/17/lebanon-president-says-country-is-no-longer-a-pawn-amid-israel-ceasefire) of lasting deals after the ceasefire and is no longer “an arena for others’ wars”. - **France, UK Hormuz mission:** France and Britain

Pakistan seeks to raise its global standing in push for Middle East peace

US president and hardliners in Tehran, were on Monday trying to coax both sides to put the conditions in place for a second round of talks in Islamabad this week, including easing the standoff

Netanyahu says there is no ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel launches fresh strikes

Israel’s “ongoing aggression against Lebanon”. Netanyahu had insisted Lebanon was not included in the Tuesday night ceasefire agreed by Donald Trump, and vowed the Israeli military would continue to strike Hezbollah targets “wherever necessary

Iran’s top diplomat in Russia as Tehran intensifies efforts to end the war

Israel and Lebanon also threatens to complicate negotiations. ## Russia’s role in diplomacy Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said Russia was likely to play a central role in any next phase

Islamabad prepares to host historic negotiations between Iran and the US

US and Israel have since insisted that is a separate issue. Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said that any peace negotiations would be “meaningless” if they took place as bombs continued to fall

Pakistan ready for multi-day US-Iran talks, but Tehran unsure about joining

Lebanon truce to hold and ideally include “some form of assurance against violations”. ![U.S. Vice President JD Vance meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for talks about Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April

What we know about the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

role in achieving this mission,” he added. On Thursday, Trump revealed that Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and Lebanon’s President Aoun could meet ⁠in Washington over ⁠the ⁠next week or two to discuss

No date set for US-Iran talks, as Pakistan pushes to keep diplomacy alive

role will change from mediator to crisis manager. If hostilities resume, Pakistan will focus again on brokering a ceasefire,” he said. Despite uncertainty, signals from both Washington and Tehran have remained cautiously optimistic. White House

How Pakistan secured ‘biggest diplomatic win in years’ with Iran ceasefire

role was played by China. They became a guarantor of the ceasefire and pledged that the US would standby the agreement and that talks would go smoothly in Islamabad. They told Iran to accept this

Middle East crisis live: UN chief calls for Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be ‘fully’ respected as it comes into effect

role of the **United States** in facilitating” it, Guterres spokesperson **Stephane Dujarric** said in a statement, adding he hoped the temporary halt to fighting would “pave the way for negotiations”. The ceasefire took effect

Trump and Tehran’s series of mismanaged posts stall progress towards peace

talks. Pakistan for its part is trying to put together a string of confidence-building measures, which started with Trump applying pressure on the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to agree to a ceasefire

First Thing: Microsoft and Meta cut thousands of staff as they bet big on AI

roles. Microsoft announced to employees, for the first time, that it would offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of its US workforce of roughly 125,000. - **What have they said about AI?** Mark Zuckerberg said

Israel and Lebanon hold rare talks in Washington, DC, amid Iran war

talks and was not represented in the meeting. Instead, news reports suggested it stepped up its fire on northern Israel as the negotiations began. The discussions come at a sensitive moment in the wider US

Can Pakistan secure Iran-US nuclear compromise, as Trump says deal ‘close’?

role](/news/2026/4/15/pakistan-army-chief-in-tehran-to-advance-next-round-of-us-iran-talks) has limits. “Pakistan is facilitating this meeting, and the most it can do is suggest certain things that mediators can offer in their capacity,” he said. “But ultimately, it all depends

Iran war: What is happening on day 48 of the US-Iran conflict?

role as its leaders hold high-level talks in Tehran and the Gulf. Amid a renewed push to end the war, a Pakistani delegation, led by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir is in Tehran

These are difficult times for the world, so what will Pakistan do?

Lebanon. In response, Iran announced it would allow all commercial ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz for the remainder of the temporary truce period—before matters became somewhat complicated. All of this came

Tensions rise in two ceasefires in the Middle East. And, the Navy secretary ousted

Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed at least five people, including Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. Israeli and Lebanese diplomats are expected to meet in Washington for a second round of talks aimed at extending a truce