Rioters clash for hours with security forces guarding encampments, hurling stones, firecrackers, set fire to cars, tents; fighting threatens to plunge country into further chaos

UN special coordinator for Lebanon warns that with the collapsing economy, such delays are 'a risky hazard both for the politicians but even more so' for the people

Nasrallah rejects calls to form emergency government of technocrats, two months after Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned amid widespread protests

Supporters and opponents of Lebanese president throw stones, punches at each other as peaceful demonstrations against country's ruling elite turn increasingly violent

Demonstrators say parliamentary meetings are unconstitutional when there is no government, clash with riot police who cordon off parliament building

Lebanese troops clear blocked thoroughfares as president says protesters' demands will be among 'top priorities' of the next government

Soldier arrested after opening fire on demonstrators in southern Beirut; thousands take to streets after President Michel Aoun warns of further delays forming government

Demonstrators vow to keep up their street movement until all their demands are met, including the formation of a technocratic government

Addressing backers, Michel Aoun urges citizens to accept proposed reforms; anti-government demonstrations set to resume

As the economy lurches to a halt and protesters demand a reset of the post-civil war system of shared sectarian rule, Israel's northern neighbor could be on the brink of chaos