Lebanese Foreign Minister defends alliance with Hezbollah, says it has helped Lebanon gain internal stability and maintain national unity.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hizballah movement, says the United States has been attempting to open communications with his group despite imposing new sanctions against its leaders.

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad sent an official warning to Christine Lund, the Head of the UNTSO, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization between Israel on one side and Syria and Lebanon on the other.

Germany will not declare Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement a terrorist organization, a top official said Friday.

Russia’s Ambassador to Lebanon warned on Saturday that the US policy in the region could spark a new conflict between Israel and Lebanon.

In an interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik, Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, spoke about the details of his abduction from Syria and his arrest in Lebanon and the conduct of his investigation into the disappearance of Imam Musa Al-Sadr.

As the Israeli regime is stick to its policy of targeting the so-called Iranian positions in Syria in order to cut the Islamic Republic ties with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement says it’s too late for Tel Aviv and the movement has already acquired whatever weapons it needs to face the threats.

Russia has slowly but surely been expanding its influence in the Middle East.

Syrian state media and a military media unit run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said early on Thursday that the U.S.-led coalition targeted Syrian army positions in Syria’s desert, but U.S. military officials denied any knowledge of the strikes.

Hezbollah and its political allies made significant gains in Lebanon’s parliamentary election, official results showed, boosting an Iranian-backed movement fiercely opposed to Israel and underlining Tehran’s growing regional clout.

Polls have opened in Lebanon for the first parliamentary elections in almost a decade.

As the Israeli regime has recently intensified the level of its threats as well as provocative moves against both Syria and Lebanon, the leader of Hezbollah movement hits back at Tel Aviv, underlining that the movement has so far secured Lebanon’s southern borders against the Israeli aggressions.

Russian media sources revealed that on Tuesday Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, instructed the Russian Defence Ministry to begin talks with its Lebanese counterpart to sign a military cooperation agreement between Russia and Lebanon.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is extending for three years the mandate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

After weeks of controversies over Saad Hariri’s surprise resignation, he finally admitted that he will continue to work as Lebanon’s prime minister. The decision comes apparently as a result of an agreement between various Lebanese political factions.

While in a televised interview, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he is free to go back to his country, international observers are still worry about his real situation.