More than one million people in Lebanon face acute food insecurity, the United Nations warned on Wednesday, following years of war and economic crisis.

Lebanon has endured two successive wars with neighboring Israel since 2023 and remains mired in an unprecedented economic collapse triggered seven years ago.

President Joseph Aoun said Wednesday that no one can claim sovereignty or pretend to love their country while attacking the army and security forces tasked with safeguarding security, stability, and state authority.

The remarks come after Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and some lawmakers criticized army chief Rodolphe Haykal.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz will visit Beirut early next week to discuss the issue of UNIFIL and the proposed solutions for the period that will follow the end of its mandate, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, has stressed in an interview on al-Mayadeen television that "any new U.S. attack will be met by targeting distant American military bases as well."

He also pointed out that "ending the war on all fronts in West Asia (the Middle East), especially Lebanon, is one of our fundamental conditions."

Kataeb Party Leader MP Sami Gemayel said Wednesday that Hezbollah has "lost its way to the south," ending up in Fanar, Bsharri, Tannourine, and Dahr al-Baidar.

The remarks, posted Wednesday on the X platform, come after security forces arrested five Hezbollah members on the outskirts of Batroun and Bsharri.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson told MTV that the Lebanon's political, economic, and security crises share a single root cause: Hezbollah.

The spokesperson said Washington expects the Lebanese army to proceed with disarming Hezbollah and dismantling its infrastructure nationwide, starting from pilot areas.

The Global Health Institute (GHI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Meem Foundation, a UAE-based philanthropic organization, joined forces to create new pathways for women’s economic empowerment and community health through the Mobile University for Health (MUH), with the aim of driving lasting social impact, particularly among underserved communities.

Through funding from the foundation, GHI will train 100 women from underserved communities as community health workers, adapt MUH’s certificate programs for digital delivery, and support continuous learning and peer exchange through a community of practice.

Security forces arrested five Hezbollah members on Tuesday on the outskirts of Batroun and Bsharri. The five men reportedly had papers and maps, which they managed to tear up before their arrest.

Journalist Riad Tawk reported in a video published by Beirut Time that the documents contained lists of locations across the Koura, Batroun, and Bsharri districts, as well as references to weapons, including sniper rifles.

A former member of the Iraqi parliament who spent over a decade in prison in his home country was found dead in a Beirut apartment days after arriving in Lebanon, Lebanese security and judicial officials said Tuesday.

The officials said Ahmed al-Alwani arrived in Beirut flying in from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil five days ago. Al-Alwani had reserved a room at a hotel in Beirut's commercial Hamra district, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Tuesday that one of its patrols came under fire in the country's south, without saying who was responsible.