UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that the United Nations must maintain a presence in Lebanon when the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) expires at the end of the year.

BEIRUT, May 30 — Lebanon is seeking an international force to replace a decades-long United Nations peacekeeping mission whose mandate ends this year following US and Israeli...

Israel has pushed past the Litani River, with the UNFIL peacekeeping force helpless to prevent an invasion.