U.N. Security Council to Visit Syria and Lebanon at ‘Crucial’ Time for the Countries
The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.
Members of an Italian battalion of the U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL patrolled Tayr Harfa, in south Lebanon, in March.

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