Mission Amid French Riots

France’s President Emmanuel Macron is pursuing a multinational military presence in Lebanon to support the Lebanese army as the UNIFIL mission prepares to end in 2026, but Italy opposes deploying troops under Paris’s current proposal. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a replacement monitoring mechanism could be civilian, while Washington has ruled out continuing UNIFIL in its current form. The plan faces disputes over its mandate and participants as implementation of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework has stalled and Hezbollah remains armed.

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