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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn  The New York Times The Take: Will Lebanon disarm Hezbollah?  Al Jazeera How Lebanon is planning to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year  PBS Hezbollah ally warns Lebanon faces ‘ball of fire’ as cabinet set to debate disarmament  The Times of Israel Washington Has One Chance to Help Disarm Hezbollah  Foreign …

‘No life’: Hezbollah sends direct threat to Lebanon’s gov’t | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Middle East This comes after President Joseph Aoun told a senior Iranian official on Tuesday that no group in Lebanon is permitted to bear arms or rely on foreign backing. Hezbollah’s then-deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem seen in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, August 2, 2024 (photo …

The Lebanese government approved on Thursday the objectives of a US proposal that would ultimately lead to disarming the Hezbollah terror group. Hezbollah ministers and Muslim Shi’ite allies walked out of the cabinet’s discussion on the plan, three Lebanese political sources told Reuters, days after the Iran-backed group lashed out at an earlier announcement of a plan to disarm Hezbollah, …

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese government asked the national army on Tuesday to prepare a plan in which only state institutions will have weapons in the small nation by the end of the year, a move that aims to disarm the militant Hezbollah group. The announcement by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam after a nearly six-hour Cabinet meeting, came shortly after …