British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugo Shorter and the U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Richard have met Lebanese Army Commander General Joseph Aoun to discuss progress on the security of the Lebanese-Syrian border, a UK embassy statement said.

“The High Level Steering Committee was an opportunity to congratulate the Lebanese Army on maintaining peace and security after Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections since 2009, which took place on 6 May,” the statement said.

Posts for Lebanon's Hizbullah were among those hit in the unprecedented Israeli air raids in Syria overnight, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes targeted posts “likely belonging to Hizbullah in the southwest of the city of Homs” and “other posts for Hizbullah and pro-regime fighters in the triangle of Daraa, Quneitra and Damascus' southwest countryside.”

Debris from several missiles landed overnight in several Lebanese regions during an unprecedented military flare-up between Israeli, Iranian and Syrian forces.

“Between 3:00 and 3:45 am, and as a result of the incidents that took place in Syria, remnants and tails of missiles of unidentified types and sources landed in the outskirt of the Hasbaya town of al-Hibbariyeh, the Shebaa town of Saqiyat Wadi Janaam, and Khirbet Qanafar and Qab Elias” in the Bekaa, a Lebanese Army statement said.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea received at his residence in Maarab on Wednesday, Emirati Ambassador to Lebanon Hamad al-Shamsi and Chargé d'Affaires of the Saudi Embassy in Beirut Walid Bukhari.

Shamsi and Bukhari congratulated Geagea on his win in Sunday’s elections, said NNA.

The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) issued a Scheduling Order in which it ordered the hearings in the Ayyash et al. case to resume on Monday 14 May 2018, an STL press release said on Wednesday.

The Judges will hear the evidence of Professor Siegfried Ludwig Sporer, an expert witness for the accused Hussein Hassan Oneissi.

The Secretary-General congratulated Lebanon on the holding of parliamentary elections on 6 May, a statement released by the UN office said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday congratulated women of Lebanon for winning six parliament seats in Sunday’s general elections, up from just four in the 2009-era parliament.

“We congratulate the women of Lebanon for winning 6 parliamentary seats, and congratulations for al-Mustaqbal Movement for winning half of these seats,” said Hariri on Twitter.

In the wake of the Israeli air strikes on military targets in Syria, Israeli forces have been on high alert along the border line of the occupied Shebaa Farms adjacent to the Golan Heights section in Syria, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Parliament speaker Nabih Berri said that the general election's results vindicated a formula in which both the army and Hizbullah guarantee the country's protection.

Polls held on Sunday, the first in nine years, saw Hizbullah's allies in parliament garner enough seats to block any attempt by its political foes in parliament to make it disarm.

A secular coalition that ran in Lebanon's parliamentary elections said on Tuesday it will legally challenge the defeat of one of its candidates, slamming the vote count as untransparent.

Kulluna Watani, an alliance of civil society activists, had projected it would win at least two seats in the landmark May 6 vote -- an achievement in a country with a deeply entrenched political class.