Hizbullah fighters have reportedly destroyed positions of the jihadist group al-Nusra Front in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, Hizbullah's al-Manar TV reported on Wednesday.
“The mujahideen of the resistance have targeted a main position of the Nusra Front in Dahr al-Howa in the outskirts of Arsal,” al-Manar reported.

Political circles are looking forward to see what will Speaker Nabih Berri state during a ceremony that will mark the 38th disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions, as expectations rise that his address will have an echo at the political situation prevailing in Lebanon, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.
Berri will deliver his speech at a ceremony hosted by the AMAL movement in the southern city of Tyre on the occasion. The Speaker is expected to deliver several regional and local positions that observers believe will have a significant impact.

The U.N. Security Council warned that violations of the cessation of hostilities agreement between Lebanon and Israel could lead to a new conflict "that none of the parties or the region can afford."
The council's warning came in a resolution adopted unanimously Tuesday extending the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon that monitors the cessation of hostilities until Aug. 31, 2017. It maintained the mission's ceiling at 15,000 troops, supported by international and local civilian staff.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc stressed Tuesday that the election of the president and the designation of the prime minister are national issues and not “sectarian” issues.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag on Tuesday visited the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon, her press office said.
The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc led by MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday announced that it will file an appeal against the decrees that the cabinet issued during its session on Thursday which was boycotted by the bloc's two ministers and their Tashnag Party ally.
Minor skirmishes erupted at dawn on Tuesday in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, but no casualties weer reported, the National News Agency reported.
An unknown assailant randomly opened gunfire inside the vegetable market which led to material damages to cars and stores, NNA said.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam refused any mediation with the Free Patriotic Movement as he assured that the he has no conflicts to resolve with the FPM , An Nahar daily reported on Tuesday.
Several contacts were held in the last 24 hours with Salam in an attempt to carry out a mediation with the FPM, said the daily.

Concerns on Lebanon's inability to join the international financial laws that ensure its survival in the global financial system will surface again by the beginning of September when the due signing date of the Global Account Tax Compliance Act GATCA agreement looms in light of an existing government crisis, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Despite the negative atmospheres that ruled the last dialogue between al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri and founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun and the rumors that it has reached a dead end, unnamed sources said they sensed some kind of mutual flexibility between the Center House and Rabieh, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.
