Envoys from Lebanon and Israel are meeting in Washington for decades-long face-to-face discussions, mediated by a US State Department official. The talks proceed despite explicit warnings from Hezbollah, which dismissed any resulting agreements as useless.

Lebanese and Israeli envoys meet in Washington on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks in decades between representatives of the two countries, mediated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has warned it will not abide by any agreements that may result from the talks, describing them as "futile".