Lebanon Israel Iran War
This photo released by the Lebanese Civil Defense, show Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and a Civil Defense worker sit on a excavator carrying the body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil working for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper killed in an Israeli airstrike, in al-Tiri village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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Israel and Lebanon are meeting in Washington Thursday in the hope of extending a fragile 10-day ceasefire that began last week. The prospects of talks between Iran and the U.S. to end the war in the Middle East is uncertain. Pakistan had planned to host another round of talks this week. But the White House has suspended U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s planned trip to Islamabad while Iran accused the U.S. of a lack of good faith in negotiations. Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday and seized two of them. The attacks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports.