Syria and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah Shiite group have signed a defense pact that includes broad-based “field understandings,” according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper al-Rai. In the event of war with Israel, the two allies will provide...

All flights to Beirut are full and most hotels in the city are booked, as tens of thousands of Lebanese abroad come home to vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Throughout the campaign, political parties have been criticised, and have accused...