Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani is visiting Iraq and Lebanon to sign a bilateral security agreement and discuss Beirut’s plan to disarm Hezbollah. Tehran has strongly opposed the move

Lebanon’s government announces it will disarm the group before the end of the year, which Hezbollah says it will ignore.

Lebanon had been hoping this summer would see the return of tens of thousands of expats and tourists to the crisis-hit Mediterranean nation, spending money in resorts and restaurants and attending festivals such as a famed one in an ancient Roman city.