BREAKING NEWS

LAF to continue receiving funding from France

The Lebanese Armed Forces will continue receiving military equipment from France despite pressure from Israel and the US to halt such assistance, a report from Ash-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper said Sunday.
Following violent border clashes between IDF and LAF forces earlier this month which left an Israeli soldier and three Lebanese dead, US Representative, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made a statement saying that the sale of weapons to Lebanon at this time would be "irresponsible" and could "jeopardize security and stability in the region."