Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack at a meeting with Lebanese parliamentarians in Beirut on Aug. 26, 2025. Photo: Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam made an announcement on August 7 that would have been unthinkable even a year before: Hezbollah — indeed all militias in the country — would be disarmed by the end of 2025.

Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim political organization which has long been considered more powerful than the Lebanese Army itself, has been on its back foot since its November 2024 ceasefire with Israel . Since then, the group has been unable to intervene again, for either Gaza or Iran. Now, in its moment of weakness, there is a push

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