Rabia \u0130clal Turan<\/p>\n
15 May 2026\u2022Update: 15 May 2026<\/p>\n
A third round of US-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon wrapped up Thursday after a full day of negotiations at the State Department, with negotiations set to continue Friday, a senior State Department official told Anadolu.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a full day of productive and positive talks that lasted from 9 am to 5 pm. We look forward to continuing this tomorrow and hope to have more to share then,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n
The talks came as the death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon continued to rise, despite a US-mediated ceasefire that took effect on April 17 and was extended until May 17.<\/p>\n
A State Department official told Anadolu that the US was represented by US State Department Counselor Michael Needham, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.<\/p>\n
Lebanon was represented by Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Lebanese presidential special envoy Simon Karam, the official said.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, Deputy National Security Advisor Yossi Draznin and senior military representatives represented Israel.<\/p>\n
Earlier Thursday, an Israeli strike on a residential complex in the southern Lebanese town of Srifa in Tyre killed two people, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).<\/p>\n
In a separate attack, one person was injured in a drone strike in an area between the towns of Breqaa and Zrariyeh in Nabatieh, NNA said.<\/p>\n
Israeli warplanes also carried out strikes in the towns of Ain al-Tineh, Yahmar, Loubaya and Sohmor in the western Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon. No information was available about casualties.<\/p>\n
Since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 2,896 people, injured over 8,824 and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the country\u2019s population, according to Lebanese officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabia \u0130clal Turan 15 May 2026\u2022Update: 15 May 2026 A third round of US-mediated talks between Israel and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[93,21312],"class_list":{"0":"post-114723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116576786978996418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114723","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=114723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}