Lebanon says Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a partial ceasefire that would halt attacks on Beirut and its suburbs, but fighting is still continuing in southern Lebanon, underscoring how limited and fragile the arrangement remains.

At a United Nations emergency Security Council meeting on Monday, diplomats were nearly unanimous — with the exception of the United States — in calling for Israel to withdraw its forces from southern...

Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, a day after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years and as Hezbollah fired rockets at nort...