2025 in Lebanon

9 January – 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election: The Lebanese parliament elects Lebanese Armed Forces commander Joseph Aoun as President of Lebanon, ending a two-year vacancy.^[1]
13 January – President Joseph Aoun nominates Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, as Prime Minister of Lebanon.^[2] Salam's nomination is confirmed by Parliament later in the day.^[3]
26 January – The deadline for Israeli forces to leave southern Lebanon under the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement expires^[4] but is extended to February 18.^[5]

8 February – The Cabinet of Nawaf Salam is inaugurated.^[6]
14 February – The deputy commander of UNIFIL, Nepalese Major General Chok Bahadur Dhakal, is injured in an attack on a convoy heading to the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport.^[7] At least 25 people are subsequently arrested over the attack.^[8]
18 February – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdraw from all but five positions in southern Lebanon under the 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement which expires the same day.^[9]
23 February – The funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2024, is held in Beirut.^[10]
26 February – The Salam cabinet wins a confidence motion in parliament with the support of 95 of 128 MPs.^[11]

11 March – Four captives taken by Israel during its war against Hezbollah are released and repatriated to Lebanon.^[12]
13 March –
- A fifth Lebanese captive taken by Israel during its war against Hezbollah is released and repatriated.^[13]
- Rodolph Haykal is appointed as commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces.^[14]
16 March – Syria accuses Hezbollah of killing three Syrian soldiers. Hezbollah denies, while Lebanese sources say the soldiers entered Lebanon first and were killed by local armed groups.^[15]
17 March – Lebanon and Syria agree to a ceasefire after border clashes kill 10 and wound 52.^[15]
22 March – In the first rocket attack from Lebanon since December 2024, at least five rockets are fired at Metula, causing no casualties.^[16] In response, the IDF launches airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing one person.^[17]
27 March – Karim A. Souaid is appointed as governor of the Banque du Liban.^[18]
28 March – The IDF carries out airstrikes on Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect.^[19]

20 April – Three soldiers are killed in the explosion of ammunition being transported inside an army vehicle in Braiqaa.^[20]
24 April – The World Bank reaches an agreement to provide a $250 million loan to Lebanon as part of efforts to resolve its ongoing energy crisis.^[21]

5 June – Israel launches airstrikes on suspected Hezbollah drone factories in southern Beirut.^[23]
10 June – The European Union adds Lebanon to its list of high risk jurisdictions for money laundering and terrorism financing.^[24]
11 June – Former Economy Minister Amin Salam is arrested while being investigated for alleged falsification, embezzlement of public funds, and blackmailing insurance companies.^[25]

15 July – Israeli airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley kill 12 people; namely seven Syrian nationals and five Hezbollah fighters.^[26]
17 July – The Court of Appeal of Paris orders the release and immediate expulsion from France of Lebanese leftwing militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who had been convicted for the killings of American diplomat Charles R. Ray and Israeli diplomat Yacov Bar-Simantov in 1982 and detained since 1984.^[27] He is released and deported on 25 July.^[28]
29 July – A court-martial convicts six people over the killing of an Irish UNIFIL peacekeeper in Al-Aqbiya in 2022 and sentences the main suspect to death.^[29]

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