{"id":114498,"date":"2026-05-15T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:25:15","slug":"first-day-of-lebanon-israel-ceasefire-talks-positive-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114498\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of Lebanon-Israel ceasefire talks \u2018positive\u2019, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The US hailed \u201cpositive talks\u201d on Thursday, as it sought to extend a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The truce \u2013 considered to still be in place despite hundreds of deaths in Israeli strikes \u2013 ends on Sunday and violence again flared as the two governments met in Washington.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel has pounded Lebanon and invaded its south in response to retaliatory fire from Shia movement Hezbollah following Israel\u2019s killing of Iran\u2019s supreme leader at the start of the war on February 28.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors held the first of two days of talks at the US State Department, with Israel bringing along military officers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe had a full day of productive and positive talks,\u201d a senior State Department official said, expecting more to say on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Lebanese official said that the country would seek \u201cthe consolidation of the ceasefire\u201d and said: \u201cThe first thing is to put an end to the death and destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump announces Israel and Lebanon agreement to 10-day ceasefire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US hailed \u201cpositive talks\u201d on Thursday, as it sought to extend a shaky ceasefire between Israel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[39568,38,100,34,37,2412,849,5401,93,10274,4108,1330,153,1705,1537],"class_list":{"0":"post-114498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-ali-ammar","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israeli","14":"tag-joseph-aoun","15":"tag-lebanese","16":"tag-lebanon","17":"tag-national-news-agency","18":"tag-shia","19":"tag-state-department","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116575753163590386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}