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Confirmed Coalition formed Lebanon February 8, 2025

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.
Confirmed Election held Lebanon January 9, 2025

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon November 27, 2024

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon November 27, 2024

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon November 27, 2024

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.
Confirmed Leader changed Lebanon October 29, 2024

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon October 1, 2024

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.
Confirmed Leader killed Lebanon September 27, 2024

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.
Confirmed Leader killed Lebanon September 27, 2024

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon September 17, 2024

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.
Confirmed Figure imprisoned Lebanon September 3, 2024

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon October 27, 2022

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon August 4, 2020

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.
Confirmed Other Lebanon October 17, 2019

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.

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