India, July 21 -- US President Donald Trump said during a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday that Lebanon had been hit hard for decades and that the United States would help the country going forward. During the Oval Office meeting, Trump promised that he would have Lebanon "treated properly."

"It's been a very badly treated place and country, and we're going to have it properly treated, and treated with the respect that it deserves," Trump said.

According to a Reuters report, Aoun's meeting with Trump at the White House on Tuesday was for him to present a plan on how to disarm the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon.

Aoun, who served as the commander of Lebanon's US-back...