{"id":2570,"date":"2026-10-12T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:03:49","slug":"eu-establishes-new-lebanon-support-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"EU establishes new Lebanon support mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to establish a new support \u200bmission in Lebanon aimed at advising and training the \u200ccountry\u2019s military and internal security forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission \u201cwill advise and assist the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces to strengthen territorial control, border \u200bsecurity, and internal security,\u201d EU foreign policy chief Kaja \u200bKallas said in a statement, adding that \u201cEurope is invested \u2060in Lebanon\u2019s future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of the EU said the mission \u200bwould have an initial mandate of three years and include both \u200ba civilian and military pillar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe military pillar will provide advisory support and training to strengthen the capabilities of the Lebanese Armed Forces for border \u200bsecurity and maritime security,\u201d it said, while the civilian pillar \u200bwould provide training for Lebanon\u2019s Internal Security Forces in areas such as \u200ccybercrime \u2060and anti-smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas said last month that more than 10 EU members were willing to contribute resources and people to the mission.<\/p>\n<p>More operational planning is expected before the bloc makes a decision \u200bto launch the \u200bmission\u2019s work. An \u2060EU official said on Monday that the bloc hoped to deploy personnel under the new \u200bmission in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The mission stems from \u200bthe EU \u2060studying ways to strengthen Lebanese forces to help free up the Lebanese army to focus on disarming the militia group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate of \u2060the UN \u200bInterim Force in Lebanon is set to expire at the end of 2026, when it is expected to begin a \u200byear-long drawdown and withdrawal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to establish a new support \u200bmission in Lebanon aimed at advising and training the \u200ccountry\u2019s military and internal security forces. The mission \u201cwill advise and assist the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces to strengthen territorial control, border \u200bsecurity, and internal security,\u201d EU foreign policy chief Kaja \u200bKallas said in a statement, adding that \u201cEurope is invested \u2060in Lebanon\u2019s future\u201d. The Council of the EU said the mission \u200bwould have an initial mandate of three years and include both \u200ba civilian and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}