Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The foreign policy of Lebanon reflects its geographic location, the composition of its population, and its reliance on commerce and trade. As'ad AbuKhalil argues that foreign intervention has been a mainstay of Lebanon's domestic politics throughout its history as a nation-state, with British, French and American influence predominating from the declaration of independence in 1943 until the ...
Lebanon–United States relations (Arabic: العلاقات الأمريكية اللبنانية) are the bilateral relations between Lebanon and the United States. Formal relations between the two countries began in 1944, when US diplomat George Wadsworth presented his credentials as Envoy .
Israel–Lebanon relations have experienced ups and downs since their establishment in the 1940s.. Lebanon did take part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War against Israel, but Lebanon was the first Arab League nation to signal a desire for an armistice treaty with Israel in 1949.
In 2016, Hezbollah-allied Christian politician Michel Aoun became president - in Lebanon's sectarian political system the presidency is held by a Maronite Christian. Two years later, Hezbollah and ...
Lebanon says Israel regularly breached the agreement over the past two decades by sending fighter jets into its airspace. ... who leads the Hezbollah-allied Amal party and is the interlocutor in ...
The UK has now joined the US, France and other allies in calling for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The joint statement reads: “It is time for a settlement on the ...
Insurgency in South Lebanon (1968–1982) Israel. Free Lebanon. South Lebanon Army. Lebanese Front. Kataeb Party. PLO Syria. LNM. Supported by: Soviet Union [3] Israeli and Lebanese victory. PLO ousted from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War, relocated to Tunis. Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) LF Syria
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the border since its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza and Israel went to war on Oct. 7. The violence on the frontier between ...