BEIRUT—Lebanese voted Sunday to choose a new government in the country’s first election in nearly a decade, one that has become a proxy contest between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The capital was flooded with campaign posters and slogans, and security forces patrolled across the city amid heightened security measures. Supporters of Future Movement and Hezbollah, the two main parties, clashed in fistfights and threw bottles and rocks at each other in some parts of Beirut.
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