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Tue · 15 Sep 2026

Trump Lifts 40-Year Ban on US Carrier Flights to Beirut

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Trump Lifts 40-Year Ban on US Carrier Flights to Beirut

✈️ BEIRUT — Trump reopens Beirut flights; IDF clears south Lebanon. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: US carriers barred since 1985 TWA 847 hijacking — restoring routes signals Washington treats Lebanon as a post-Hezbollah-degradation partner. Pairs with Trump's White House backing of Aoun's disarmament plan: carrots while Israel applies the stick. The variable: whether Hezbollah reads this as normalization pressure or irrelevant noise mid-campaign.