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Lebanon Sets Deadline to Disarm Hezbollah by End of 2025

Lebanon has declared it will reclaim a monopoly on weapons for the first time since 1989, with US mediation tied to Hezbollah’s disarmament.

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Le président libanais Joseph Aoun et le Premier ministre Nawaf Salam assistent à une réunion pour discuter des efforts visant à mettre toutes les armes du pays sous le contrôle de l’État, au Liban, le 5 août 2025.
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Overview

  • On August 10, the Lebanese Council of Ministers formalized a timeline requiring Hezbollah and other militias to disarm by December 31, 2025.
  • President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam instructed the Lebanese army to submit a detailed action plan to the cabinet by August 31 to enforce exclusive state control of arms.
  • Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem denounced the plan as following an “Israeli-American” agenda, and Shia ministers boycotted the August 7 vote citing communal consensus concerns.
  • US envoy Tom Barrack has made American mediation between Lebanon and Israel conditional on Lebanon’s commitment to a single army and full disarmament of nonstate militias.
  • The Israeli military carried out about twenty airstrikes in southern Lebanon on August 6–7 to destroy remaining Hezbollah stockpiles and block rearmament.