LEBANON's year of progress in review

By George

8 October 2025

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun addresses the UN in New York on September 23, 2025 - source.

It has been 11 months since the 60-day ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel was signed, ending major warfare operations. Although the ceasefire expired, and no large-scale military action has resumed, there is still death and destruction in Lebanon. In reviewing 2025, a lot of important events have occurred since that ceasefire in all prospects from economical , political, geopolitical and military.

To begin the year, in January 2025 the parliament finally decided to elect a new president, Joseph Aoun, the now former Command in Chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017. While his ascension was unconstitutional, many in Lebanon from Christian, Muslim and Druze background still supported the elections, seeing Aoun as the path to peace and unification.

Next, was the appointment of former ICJ chief judge Nawaf Salam as the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and the formation of a new government under him in February 2025. The new government pledged reforms, economic recovery, and efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which attempts to ban aggression between Israel and Hezbollah.

In addition to economic reforms, many banking & financial reforms and laws have been passed, changing the structures and protocols of banks, including allowing access to banking records going back 10 years for regulators , auditors, and more, a condition many international donors, as well as the IMF had been pushing for.

To that, new plans and infrastructure projects have been or are being implemented, like the highway rebuilding project, upgrading the coastal highway to modern standards, adding new lanes, and providing electricity and new lighting to tunnels, which was seen as a major problem by the people, as in 2020, with inflation, Covid-19, and the electricity crisis, tunnels were not provided electricity, and thus were kept dark for more than 4 years.

Finally, Hezbollah has seen a domestical and regional power decline these past months after the war, with most if not all of it's leadership killed by Israeli Airstrikes, including it's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, as well as his cousin; Hashem Safieddine, and while being succeeded by the second-in-command of the militia, Naim Qassem, Hezbollah has been heavily weakened both militarily, with most of it's caches destroyed by Israel and the Lebanese army, and large amount of its members killed. And politically, while still holding the maximum amount of seats allowed for Shia Muslims in the parliament, at 15 seats, these numbers will maybe be changing, with their rivals and enemies since the civil war, the Lebanese Forces, on the rise, the 2026 elections will potentially see a weakened Hezbollah, which will probably be having the least amount of seats in all of parliamentary elections history since the end of the Lebanese civil war.

This blog hopes all innocent Lebanese across the nation will be able to commit to these slow rebuilding efforts with terror from militias or interference from foreign powers.

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