Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has cautioned the United States top general about the potential risks of a big conflict in Lebanon. President Sisi made the alert on Sunday during a meeting with Washington officials.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, General C.Q. Brown of the United States Air Force, landed in Egypt a few hours after Israel and Hezbollah of Lebanon engaged in a major missile exchange.

In one of the worst confrontations in almost a decade of border conflict, Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel, while Israel claimed it used roughly 100 jets to hit Lebanon to avert a larger strike.

In a statement, Sisi’s office said the Egyptian leader told Brown that the international community needed to “exert all efforts and intensify pressures to defuse tension and stop the state of escalation that threatens the security and stability of the entire region.”

“(Sisi warned) in this regard of the dangers of opening a new front in Lebanon, and stressing the need to preserve Lebanon’s stability and sovereignty,” the statement read.

During his visit, Brown met the nation’s head of defence as well as the minister of defence, but he made no public statements. Before travelling to the area on Saturday, Brown made statements to Reuters in which he stated that his goal was to talk about measures to prevent any further escalation of hostilities that would lead to a wider confrontation.

According to a representative for Brown, the U.S. general spoke about strategies “to deter the conflict from broadening” during the discussions.

The goal of the ongoing negotiations in Cairo is to bring Israel and the militant Palestinian organisation Hamas together in exchange for the captives that remain in Gaza.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has been working to lessen the effects of the ongoing, now in its eleventh month, conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Large tracts of Gaza have been destroyed by the fighting, which has also led to border skirmishes between Israel and the Hezbollah organisation in Lebanon, which is supported by Iran, and attacks on Red Sea commerce by the Houthis of Yemen.

In the meantime, Iranian-aligned militias have targeted US forces in Jordan, Syria, and Iraq.

The Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group has been stationed in the Middle East to relieve the Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group as part of the U.S. military’s recent augmentation of its forces there in anticipation of potential new and significant attacks by Iran or its allies.