Trump presses Syria to take on Hezbollah, raising alarm in Lebanon and Israel

BEIRUT: As the White House has soured on Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, US President Donald Trump has shocked many in the region by pushing an alternative: Let Syria fight the Iran-backed militant group instead. He has suggested that the battle-hardened and Islamist-led insurgents who overthrew Syria’s autocratic President Bashar Assad a year and a half ago and formed a new government would do a better job of rooting out Hezbollah than the Israeli army. Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa has said he has no interest in doing so, and has asserted that Trump’s comments were misconstrued.

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