UN Security Council renews Lebanon peacekeeping mission ‘for a final time’

(Corrects to add dropped word “member” in paragraph 3)

By Michelle Nichols

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously extended “for a final time” a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until the end of 2026, when the operation will then begin a year-long “orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal.”

The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), established in 1978, patrols Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.

The 15-member council unanimously…