BEIRUT (Dispatches) – The Lebanese Armed Forces will have complete control over the country’s borders with Syria in 2019, local newspaper Asharq al-Awsat quoted a British diplomatic sources in Beirut as saying.
"The Lebanese Armed Forces have improved their capabilities over the past 10 years which turned them into a professional army able to protect Lebanon against terrorism on the borders and inside Lebanon," the sources said.
The army owes a huge part of its strength to the Hezbollah resistance movement. Hezbollah was formed following the Zionist regime’s invasion of Lebanon and the ensuing occupation of its southern parts in the 1980s, and currently constitutes Lebanon’s de facto military power.  
Since then, the movement has helped the national army retake the occupied regions from Tel Aviv and thwart two Israeli acts of aggression in 2000 and 2006. It has also been playing a significant role in the Syrian army’s fight against Takfiri terrorist groups.
Since the end of the 2006 war, Zionist troops have regularly violated Lebanon’s sovereignty, with the regime’s officials even threatening another offensive against the Arab country.