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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun (R) speaks with France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (L) at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on October 17, 2026. (Anwar AMRO/AFP)
October 18, 2026, 8:40 am
Lebanon seeks international presence in south from French FM as peace keeper exit nears
During Beirut visit, Aoun and French FM discuss post-UNIFIL security arrangement; Lebanon says next round of talks with Israel to be held Tuesday in Florida
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, second left, and Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, center, review an honor guard at the Government Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, October 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
October 16, 2026, 9:32 pm
Qatar pledges to help fund the reconstruction of southern Lebanon
Doha also says it will help rehabilitate struggling electricity sector; Trump plan to restart direct US flights with Beirut faces problems
By AP, Reuters and AFP
This handout photograph released by the Lebanese Presidency press office on October 14, 2026, shows Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun (R) meeting with United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix (C), and Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Diodato Abagnara, at the presidential palace in Baabda. (Lebanese Presidency/AFP)
October 14, 2026, 9:47 pm
UN reaffirms push for Lebanon stability as Beirut asks to extend peacekeepers’ mandate
UNIFIL mandate set to end in December after nearly 50 years, prompting concern from Lebanese officials who warn withdrawal will create ‘vacuum’ and harm regional security
By AFP
Ali Daamoush, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, October 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
October 13, 2026, 5:24 pm
Hezbollah vows to compensate owners of Lebanese homes destroyed in war with Israel
Top Hezbollah official says Lebanese state failing in duties, insists it’s working to ‘serve our people’ after US claims money — if it exists — is stuck in Iran due to sanctions
By AP
Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus (Israel Defense Forces)
October 9, 2026, 12:39 am
IDF soldier killed, 3 others wounded after Humvee overturned in southern Lebanon
Cpt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus named as fallen officer; military opens investigation; EU foreign policy chief urges extension of UNIFIL mandate to prevent security vacuum
By Stav Levaton, AFP and ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, shakes hands with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the State Department, September 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
September 29, 2026, 1:42 am
Lebanese PM meets Rubio, stresses need for IDF withdrawal, Hezbollah disarmament
Nawaf Salam says two discussed ‘path to restoring Lebanon’s full sovereignty’; IDF completes large-scale operation to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure in south Lebanon
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures after speaking during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 27, 2024 (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
September 23, 2026, 6:15 am
A month from elections, UN speech is an opportunity for Netanyahu. But Trump isn’t helping him
PM is facing a challenging political mood back home, and can count on headlines from Thursday’s address. What he really wants is a Trump meeting, but the US president is staying away
By Lazar Berman
Israeli forces advance toward the outskirts of Deir Mimas as they reach an intersection near a newly established Lebanese army position, on September 18, 2026. (AFP)
September 19, 2026, 8:32 pm
IDF says it struck Hezbollah sites after terror group’s bomb wounded 2 troops
Roadside blast leaves soldiers lightly injured; UNIFIL warns of looming vacuum as peacekeepers prepare to withdraw
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad at the US State Department in Washington, April 14, 2026. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
September 16, 2026, 9:46 pm
Lebanese and Israeli envoys hold ‘positive’ meeting in DC as Aoun arrives in Paris
Meeting comes after planned peace talks in Rome delayed until next month; Lebanese president to discuss ongoing IDF strikes, talks with Israel with Macron during visit
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff
September 14, 2026, 2:20 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 14 – IDF rejects film’s claim Israel killed Gazans with AI-assisted targeting
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses controversy over ‘NAZA’ documentary, Hamas commanders killed in Gaza, West Bank unrest and how the IDF blew up a Hezbollah complex
By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian
Mourners carry the coffins of those who were killed on Monday in an Israeli airstrike during their funeral procession in Kfar Rumman village, southern Lebanon, September 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
September 11, 2026, 9:10 pm
Lebanese official to ToI: ‘Indiscriminate’ IDF strikes hinder Hezbollah disarmament
In rare engagement with Israeli news outlet, official from Beirut says widescale destruction in south Lebanon delegitimizing country’s efforts to collaborate with Israel against Iran-backed group
By Jacob Magid
Footage shows the demolition of Hezbollah's tunnels beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon by the IDF, September 10, 2026. (Israeli Defense Forces)
September 11, 2026, 12:53 am
IDF blows up Hezbollah’s ‘strategic’ complex beneath south Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge
Military says it used 1,100 tons of explosives to raze 2kms of tunnels under hill in southern Lebanon, following reported Iranian warnings; blast triggers 4.1-magnitude tremor
By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid
A Lebanese army soldier inspects destroyed vehicles at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the village of Kfar Roummane in southern Lebanon on September 7, 2026. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP)
September 7, 2026, 11:28 am
Eleven said killed, including 2 children, in overnight IDF strikes in south Lebanon
Israel says strikes came after Hezbollah explosive-drone attack on troops, third in a week; 2 soldiers injured in clash with Hezbollah gunman near Beaufort
By Emanuel Fabian
A view of the Ali Taher ridge from Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, July 7, 2026. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
September 3, 2026, 11:50 pm
IDF says it entered, cleared Hezbollah’s Ali Taher Ridge tunnels ahead of demolition
Hezbollah operatives were killed or fled terror group’s ‘nerve center’ beneath hill in south Lebanon in recent weeks, army says, belying reports it was holding off offensive amid threats by Iran
By Emanuel Fabian
From left: Zachary Baumel, Yehuda Katz and Zvi Feldman (Courtesy)
August 19, 2026, 4:02 pm
Yehuda Katz’s return closes painful Sultan Yacoub saga, but Lebanon mire endures
Return of remains of last missing soldier from disastrous 1982 battle closes 44-year chapter, as Israel again confronts risks of a prolonged military presence in its northern neighbor
By Nava Freiberg
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