A photograph released by the Lebanese Presidency on April 17, 2026, shows Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun delivering a televised address to the Lebanese people from the Baabda Presidential Palace, east of the capital Beirut. A 10-day truce, announced by US President went into force at midnight April 16, 2026, seeking to end more than six weeks of war with Israel that has killed nearly 2,300 people in Lebanon and displaced more than a million. The ceasefire agreement makes no mention of an Israeli withdrawal from the 10-kilometre (six-mile) security zone along the border in southern Lebanon. (Photo by Lebanese Presidency / AFP)

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An ambulance crew responds after housing was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon. Getty Images

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Israeli and Lebanese leaders to hold talks, Trump says

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Today's cartoonShadi's take on the gradual advance of Israel's 'yellow line' in Gaza

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Q&A replayLebanon attacks, truce talks and the human toll

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CommentTrump needs to swiftly end the US-Israel war with Iran or face the wrath of the Republicans

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A man paints the Hezbollah flag on a board in Tyre, south Lebanon. Reuters

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