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How Lebanon’s best chance to disarm Hezbollah failed
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People holding Hezbollah flags during a rally in Tehran on June 1.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Abdi Latif Dahir, Aaron Boxerman
BEIRUT – Early in 2026, Lebanon’s leaders seemed to be edging towards one of their most elusive goals: disarming Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed militia that has long operated as a state within a state.
That effort – tentative and incremental from the start – has now stalled.
