Lebanon sets 3-month deadline to disarm Hezbollah near Israel borders
Fp Staff • 2 months agoPlan includes five-phase disarmament strategy starting in southern Lebanon, with nationwide security measures and focus on restoring state control over weapons
UN Security Council grants last extension to Lebanon peacekeeping mission
Fp Staff • 2 months agoThe United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously extended "for a final time" a long running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until the end of 2026, when the operation will then begin a yearlong "orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal."
US envoy Thomas Barrack meets Netanyahu as talks continue on Syria and Lebanon
Fp Staff • 2 months agoAppointed earlier this year, Barrack has been tasked with facilitating peace negotiations and easing tensions across multiple fronts, including Syria and Lebanon, amid stalled ceasefire talks
Disarmament is final: Lebanon warns Iran to stay out
Fp Alpha • 3 months agoAmid political unity over Hezbollah’s disarmament, Lebanon calls out Tehran’s rhetoric as dangerous, divisive, and damaging to regional peace and internal cohesion
Will Hezbollah surrender its weapons? Lebanese armed group balks as pressure mounts
Fp Staff • 3 months agoOnce hailed as the country’s most powerful armed force, Hezbollah now finds itself under intense scrutiny from both domestic and international actors
Lebanon firm on disarming Hezbollah, seeks to arrest non-state actors brandishing automatic weapons
Fp Alpha • 3 months agoThe US-brokered truce stipulates that all armed groups in Lebanon must disarm
Hezbollah's new chief says group will not surrender to Israeli aggression
• 4 months agoQassem, who succeeded longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah after Israel killed him in September, said the group's fighters would not abandon their arms and asserted that Israel's "aggression" must first stop.
Israel defies ceasefire in Lebanon, conducts strikes in south, killing 3 people
• 4 months agoThe Lebanese health ministry said an "Israeli enemy" drone strike on a car in Kunin, south Lebanon, killed one man and wounded another person
Lebanon's post-war reconstruction needs $11 bn. World Bank is giving it $250 mn
Fp Staff • 4 months agoJean-Christophe Carret, the World Bank’s Middle East regional director, said the newly approved support is the first phase of a $1 billion scalable framework to address the country’s needs
Why has Hezbollah stayed out of the Israel-Iran conflict so far?
Fp Explainers • 4 months agoAs Iran and Israel exchange direct attacks, Hezbollah — Tehran’s most powerful regional ally — has chosen to stay on the sidelines. The Lebanon-based group, weakened by last year’s Israeli strikes and under domestic and international pressure, has publicly pledged loyalty to Iran but held back militarily