As the sound of blanks being fired echoed across the Beqaa valley, close to the Syrian border, the Lebanese army captured a pair of suspected terrorists.
Watching the drill from above on a viewing platform was Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, who had come to Rayak, east Lebanon, to meet soldiers trained by the British Army.
Britain is proposing a plan to de-escalate tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border, where the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israeli forces have been trading fire almost daily for the past four months, sparking fears of a wider war. It would include Britain training the Lebanese border regiment to carry out more security work along the shared frontier.
Houthi rebels filmed practicing on Israeli and US targets
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