Country · LB
Lebanon
لبنان לבנון6 parties on file · 4 currently in government
Timeline · 14 events
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Nawaf Salam becomes Prime Minister
Former ICJ President Nawaf Salam was named Prime Minister of Lebanon on 2025-02-08 and tasked with forming a reform-oriented cabinet.
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Joseph Aoun elected President of Lebanon
After a two-year presidential vacuum, Lebanese Armed Forces commander Joseph Aoun was elected President on 2025-01-09, ending the institutional impasse.
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Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement
Lebanon and Israel signed a US-mediated agreement demarcating their maritime border on 2022-10-27, resolving a long-standing dispute over offshore gas fields. The agreement was reached despite the two countries technically being in a state of war; Hezbollah explicitly did not oppose it.
Show 11 earlier events (2019–2024)
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Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, ending the 2024 war
A US-brokered cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on 27 November 2024, ending more than a year of escalating war. A 60-day initial period required Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and a Hezbollah pull-back north of the Litani, with the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers the only armed forces south of the river.
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Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
A US-mediated 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on 2024-11-27, ending the year-long escalation. The agreement called for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah movement north of the Litani river.
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Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire holds with intermittent violations
The November 2024 ceasefire required Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River, the Lebanese army to deploy to the south, and Israeli forces to gradually return to the 1948 line. Implementation has been partial and contested: Israel has retained five strategic positions inside Lebanon, conducted regular strikes against alleged Hezbollah reconstitution efforts, and intercepted weapons transfers. Hezbollah has not formally re-engaged but has not disarmed below the Litani either.
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Naim Qassem becomes Hezbollah Secretary-General
Hezbollah named long-time deputy Naim Qassem as its new Secretary-General on 2024-10-29, succeeding Hassan Nasrallah.
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Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon
Israeli forces began ground operations in southern Lebanon on 2024-10-01, escalating the year-long war with Hezbollah. Came after the September 2024 pager attacks and a sustained Israeli bombing campaign that killed much of Hezbollah's senior leadership. The November 2024 ceasefire formally paused the operations.
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Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut on 2024-09-27. Nasrallah had led Hezbollah since 1992.
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Lebanon: Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut
The Israeli air force destroyed Hezbollah's underground headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs with a series of bunker-buster bombs, killing secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah and most of the senior military command alongside him. Nasrallah had led the party for 32 years. The strike came nine days after the pager attack and roughly a week of escalating Israeli strikes; ground operations into south Lebanon followed within days.
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Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks
Across roughly twelve hours, thousands of pagers and then walkie-talkies issued to Hezbollah members and affiliates detonated simultaneously across Lebanon and parts of Syria. The devices had been sabotaged at the supply chain. At least 42 people were killed, including children, and thousands injured. Israel did not formally claim responsibility for weeks; the operation was attributed to a long-running Mossad supply-chain infiltration.
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Lebanon: former central-bank governor Salameh arrested on corruption charges
Riad Salameh, Lebanon's central-bank governor for three decades and architect of the Ponzi-like financial-engineering scheme that collapsed in 2019, was arrested in September 2024 on domestic corruption and money-laundering charges after years of international warrants. He had spent the post-2019 collapse insulated by political protection in Lebanon; the arrest, under the Mikati caretaker government's outgoing months, was widely seen as positioning for the post-presidential-election political reset.
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Beirut port explosion
2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate detonated at Beirut's port on 2020-08-04, killing over 200 people and devastating much of the city. The blast accelerated Lebanon's financial collapse and intensified demands for accountability that have remained unmet six years on; the formal investigation has been repeatedly obstructed by Hezbollah and political establishment figures.
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Lebanese October Revolution begins
Mass anti-sectarian protests across Lebanon began on 2019-10-17 after a proposed WhatsApp tax, demanding the resignation of the entire political class. The "thawra" forced PM Saad Hariri's resignation but failed to break the sectarian power-sharing system.
Marquee bills
All bills →Compass · Lebanon
Country mean — Economic -0.1, Social -2.4
Ringed dots are parties currently in government. See the full regional compass · hand-coded estimates; methodology.
Current leadership · grouped by party
19 political figures across 7 groups. Coalition parties first, then opposition, then unaffiliated.
Parties
- Amal Movement حركة أمل
Led by · Nabih Berri
Shia political and paramilitary movement founded by Musa al-Sadr. Long-standing partner of Hezbollah and the party of Speaker Nabih Berri.
- Free Patriotic Movement التيار الوطني الحر
Led by · Gebran Bassil
Christian-rooted political movement founded by Michel Aoun; one of the two parties whose name contains the Arabic word tayyar.
- Hezbollah حزب الله
Led by · Naim Qassem
Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary organization, founded during the Lebanese civil war with Iranian support.
- Kataeb Party حزب الكتائب
Led by · Samy Gemayel
Christian-rooted political party historically known as the Phalange.
- Lebanese Forces القوات اللبنانية
Led by · Samir Geagea
Christian-rooted political party led by Samir Geagea, originally a militia formed during the civil war.
- Progressive Socialist Party الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي
Led by · Taymour Jumblatt
Druze-rooted social-democratic party founded by Kamal Jumblatt and currently led by his son Walid.
Source documents · 29
All docs →- Samir Geagea (Lebanese Forces) to AFP: Hezbollah must disarm and hand its weapons to the Lebanese state (8 October 2025) 409 words
- Nabih Berri — speech on the anniversary of Imam Musa al-Sadr's disappearance: the resistance's weapons "under the roof of the constitution", 31 August 2025 (English translation of Arabic) 106 words
- Naim Qassem — address on Lebanon's defense strategy and the Resistance's weapons, 18 April 2025 (Hezbollah-official English translation) 270 words
- Walid Jumblatt — interview with The National, 3 April 2025 (with a Middle East Eye supplement, 20 May 2025) 341 words
- Gebran Bassil — lecture in Hungary, “Which Role for the Christians in shaping the Future of the Middle East?”, 31 March 2025 (FPM-official English text) 397 words
- Nawaf Salam named Prime Minister-designate of Lebanon (13 Jan 2025) 65 words
Briefs from Lebanon
Hand-written political-science mini-papers involving Lebanon parties. 5 briefs on file.
- Free Patriotic Movement vs. Kataeb Party LB Maronite right against Aoun's Christian-Hezbollah pivot. Kataeb's civil-war Christian-right legacy against FPM's alliance with Hezbollah. The Christian Lebanese pair that doesn't include the Lebanese Forces.
- Free Patriotic Movement vs. Lebanese Forces LB The Christian Lebanese rift. Aoun's FPM-Hezbollah alliance against Geagea's Lebanese Forces opposition. The same Maronite political constituency split into two pro-state and anti-Hezbollah camps.
- Hezbollah vs. Amal Movement LB The Shia Lebanese pair. The Khomeinist armed party-state against the secular-nationalist legacy movement. Adversaries in the 1980s, allies since the early 2000s.
- Hezbollah vs. Hamas PS The axis of resistance, by sect. Iranian-backed Shia Islamist party-army against Muslim Brotherhood-rooted Sunni Islamist resistance movement. Allies against the same adversary, doctrinally distinct in almost every other respect.
- Hezbollah vs. Lebanese Forces LB Lebanon's sharpest confessional rivalry. Hezbollah's Shia armed party-state vs the Lebanese Forces' Christian-right legacy of the civil war.
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Lebanon [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/LB
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Lebanon." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/LB.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-country-lb,
title = {{Lebanon}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Country profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/LB},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.