In response to ‘repeated attacks’ on Iraqi coalition bases, US conducts precision defensive strikes that degrade Iran-backed groups, kill 19 fighters.

Consensus on Safadi becoming the new Lebanese Prime Minister, emerges in meeting between Hariri and representatives of Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah and its Shiite ally Amal.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri to head new government of Lebanon, which has finally been formed eight months after the elections.

Saad al-Hariri wins backing of majority of MPs in official consultations, is expected to launch negotiations on coalition government. Since the post of Prime Minister in Lebanon is reserved for Sunni Muslims, Hariri has become a clear frontrunner for premiership.

Lebanon heads to general elections for the first time in nine years. This is the first elections to include the 82k expat voters, totaling the total registered voters at 3.6 million. This election also sees a new Electoral system in which voters will vote twice, once for coalitions and once for the candidate.

As the date for the Lebanese legislative elections nears, tensions between the parties and candidates have increased. This is the first general elections to be held in Lebanon in 9 years.

A few miles from Syria, at 1,750 meters (1 mile) above sea level, the Lebanese Armed Forces are building new observation...

BEIRUT – Ahead of Lebanon’s upcoming general elections, the country’s politicians are increasing their calls for the repatriation of Syrian refugees....

Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi calls evacuating the militants to region near Iraq 'alarming' and 'unacceptable'

ISIS posts to the east of Qaa, Ras Baalbek villages have been pounded with artillery and struck by missile-firing Cessna aircraft.

Refugees bussed out of border area as part of ceasefire between militants from Lebanese Hezbollah and al-Qaeda's former affiliate

HTS is losing ground in the Arsal countryside, eastern Lebanon, following attacks by the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah.

The battle between Hezbollah and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham continues in the Arsal area of eastern Lebanon

The joint Lebanese army, SAA and Hezbollah forces continue to make gains against their terrorist adversaries on the Syrian border.

Baghdad – Kata’ib Hezbollah Secretary General Bassam al-Safi, based in the Iraqi city of Basra, was shot dead Wednesday evening....

The hilltop dugout overlooking a strip of desert stretching towards the the Syrian border is piled with mortar and artillery...