{"id":36491,"date":"2026-05-15T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/usa-the-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-is-extended-by-45-days-after-talks-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:00:27","slug":"usa-the-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-is-extended-by-45-days-after-talks-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/usa-the-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-is-extended-by-45-days-after-talks-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is extended by 45 days after talks in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_65a1e9a64ec763b211be935950ceb695.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The United States announced that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended for 45 days, following talks that Washington described as &#8220;very productive&#8221; between the two sides, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cessation of hostilities of April 16 will be extended for 45 days to allow for further progress,&#8221; State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said on the American social platform. X.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came despite continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the U.S.-brokered cease-fire took effect.<\/p>\n<p>Pigott said the State Department will resume the round of political negotiations on June 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that a \u201cspecial line of security\u201d involving military delegations from both countries will launch at the Pentagon on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that these discussions advance towards lasting peace between the two countries, full recognition of each other&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and the creation of real security along the common border,&#8221; Pigott said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement followed the third round of US-brokered negotiations held at the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesperson told Anadolu that the talks were &#8220;very positive, even beyond expectations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a State Department official, the US was represented at the talks by State Department adviser Michael Needham, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was represented by Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Lebanese presidential envoy Simon Karam, the official said.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States announced that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended for 45 days, following talks that Washington described as &#8220;very productive&#8221; between the two sides, reports Anadolu. &#8220;The cessation of hostilities of April 16 will be extended for 45 days to allow for further progress,&#8221; State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36493,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}