Jane’s 360 is reporting that the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have received a shipment of approximately a dozen M109 self propelled howitzers.  Reportedly, these vehicles were supplied by Jordan via a third party.  It is not stated in the article which variant of the M109 was supplied, but wikipedia lists the Lebanese M109’s as the M109A3 variant.  This M109 acquisition is part of a Lebanese Armed Forces program to upgrade their artillery capability.  The LAF have been regularly shelling Sunni militant groups in the mountains of northeast Lebanon.  Lebanon is also scheduled to receive 72 M198 towed howitzers from the United States and 24 CAESAR 155mm self-propelled howitzers from France purchased with funding from Saudi Arabia.