Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that Iran has "tried to force" Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, but stressed that such a move "will not happen."

Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that Israeli forces would remain in self-proclaimed "security zones" established in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, without any timeline for withdrawal.

"The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely in order to protect our residents and communities from jihadist elements," Israel Katz said.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio appear to be staking out differing approaches to carrying out President Donald Trump's national security agenda as the possible 2028 presidential rivals jostle for position in a divided Republican Party.

With vastly different backgrounds and policy experience, they have moved along separate paths to stake out territory: Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants with a long history in the Senate and major interest in Latin America, and Vance, a child of the Midwest and Marine Corps veteran who served in the Senate for only two years before being tapped as Trump's 2024 running mate, with a message of opposing foreign wars.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, vowing that the Israeli army would stay in the area as long as Hezbollah remained a "threat".

His comments came after Lebanon and Israel signed a framework agreement under U.S. sponsorship last week to supposedly pave the way for peace between them and disarm Hezbollah.

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The U.S. military will have a direct role in monitoring actions by both the Lebanese Army and the Israeli army, with U.S. troops on the ground in both Lebanon and Israel, a U.S. official said.

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday praised the role of the Lebanese Army and its leadership, officers and soldiers in "extending state authority, maintaining security and stability in the country, controlling the borders, and protecting civil peace," the Presidency said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil met Tuesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh, to discuss a framework agreement signed Friday with Israel.

Bassil said after the meeting that he and Berri agree on two main things. They both want to prevent internal strife, and both agree on defending the military.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that he and a large parliamentary bloc will strongly oppose a framework accord recently signed between Lebanon and Israel.

"They have entangled themselves in a major ordeal. If they believe this agreement will pass through constitutional institutions, they do not realize they will be facing Nabih Berri and a large parliamentary bloc. In the past, they faced Najah Wakim and Zaher al-Khatib, but today they will face me alongside a very large number of MPs," Berri was quoted as saying by visitors, in a report published Tuesday in the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper.

Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns.

Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never seen her parents' homeland. But more than just making pretty designs, the threads in her needle were stitching a connection to her heritage.