UN Security Council votes to wind down UNIFIL mission in Lebanon after 2026 | United Nations News

Amid US pressure, vote extends peacekeeping mission but then calls for ‘orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal’.

The United Nations Security Council has voted to extend the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon until the end of 2026 but to then terminate the mission in an “orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal” over the following year.

The unanimous vote on Thursday came just before the mandate for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)…