Washington “strongly supports” Lebanon’s independence, warning the Middle East against using the country “as a venue for proxy conflicts or in any manner contributing to instability in that country,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement Friday. Tillerson also called Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri Washington’s “strong ...
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that he supported a diplomatic solution for the Syria conflict, as America and its partners look beyond the defeat of the ISIL terrorist group in the war-torn nation. Speaking to reporters ahead of his arrival for talks in Finland on Monday, Mattis said ...
