A plan submitted by U.S. presidential envoy Tom Barrack is the most detailed yet for disarming the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.

Such a move would effectively disarm Hezbollah, an Iran- backed Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon. It comes as part of implementing a November 2024 ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah,

Lebanon's cabinet decision gave the army until the end of August to submit a disarmament plan to the government. Lebanon's cabinet has told the army to draw up a plan to establish a state monopoly on arms in a challenge to the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah,

Lebanon made a game-changing decision by tasking the Army with preparing a plan to enforce a state monopoly on weapons, poses a new challenge to Hezbollah.

Hezbollah on Wednesday said that it would treat a Lebanese government decision to disarm the militant group “as if it did not exist,” accusing the Cabinet of committing a “grave sin.” Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Tuesday said that the government had tasked the army with developing a plan to restrict weapons to government forces by the end of this year.