Washington, July 21 -- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday and handover a plan to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah group while seeking U.S. pressure on Israel to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon.
The visit marks the first by a Lebanese head of state to the White House in nearly 20 years and comes as Lebanon faces continued Israeli military presence in parts of the south, prolonged displacement of civilians and political divisions over Hezbollah's futureA day before the meeting, the United States said that pilot zone operations had begun in the Lebanese villages of Froun, Srifa and Zawtar Al-Gharbiya under the Trilateral Framework and with the oversight of the Military ...