Hezbollah rejects US-backed Israel-Lebanon ceasefire plan (opens in new tab)

Hezbollah rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire framework accepted by the Lebanese and Israeli governments after talks in Washington, saying the group had not been party to the negotiations and would not accept terms requiring it to halt fire and pull fighters from southern Lebanon while Israeli forces remain there. The U.S. State Department said Israel and Lebanon had agreed to implement a ceasefire contingent on a “complete cessation” of Hezbollah fire and the evacuation of its fighters from t...