US wants end to Israel-Hezbollah war 'as soon as possible'

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli air strike on the village of Taybeh in southern Lebanon on October 17, 2024, amid the Hezbollah and Israel war. [AFP]

The United States said Monday it wants the Israel-Hezbollah war to end "as soon as possible", as it pressed for the enforcement of a UN resolution that required the armed group to withdraw from south Lebanon.

US envoy Amos Hochstein held talks in Lebanon's capital with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, in a push for an end to a nearly month-long war that has killed more than 1,470 people in Lebanon.