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22 May 2013, 17:06 Deputy Speaker Farid Makari to MTV: No dates have been set for the convention of parliament's bureau or the parliamentary subcommittee.
22 May 2013, 17:00 MTV: All indications suggest that Tripoli will witness fierce clashes tonight.
22 May 2013, 16:57 MP Mohammed Kabbara to LBCI: All of Tripoli's politicians are asking the army to end the clashes, but in a fair way that doesn't aggrieve anyone.
22 May 2013, 16:29 MTV: Clashes have intensified in Tripoli as a shell fell in Bab al-Tabbaneh.
22 May 2013, 16:17 Future TV: The Nashabeh Mosque, which lies between Syria Street and Jabal Mohsen, went up in flames after it was hit during the clashes.
22 May 2013, 16:05 AFP quoting activists: Syrian regime forces and Hizbullah fighters launched an offensive on al-Hamidiyeh, north of Qusayr.
22 May 2013, 16:01 Caretaker PM Miqati made contacts aimed at containing the situation in Tripoli, urging reason and restraint and saying "wisdom obliges us to prevent the destruction of our city."
22 May 2013, 15:58 PM-designate Salam telephoned Army chief Qahwaji, who briefed him on the security situation in Tripoli and the measures taken by the army to stop the clashes.
22 May 2013, 15:54 Al-Jadeed: Fierce clashes are ongoing in the Hariri Project-al-Amerkan Square area in Tripoli.
22 May 2013, 15:41 Al-Jadeed: Traffic has stopped on the international highway between Tripoli and Akkar due to sniper activity.
22 May 2013, 15:26 Gunshots were heard in the Bab al-Tabbaneh and al-Barraniyeh neighborhoods in Tripoli.
22 May 2013, 15:20 Mustaqbal bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora telephoned President Suleiman, caretaker PM Miqati, PM-designate Salam, and Tripoli MPs to address local developments and Hizbullah's involvement in the fighting in Syria.
22 May 2013, 15:09 LBCI: Passengers riding in a car with tinted windows opened fire into the air during a religious procession for the Virgin Mary in Deir al-Ahmar.
22 May 2013, 14:56 Witnesses to LBCI: Assailants from the Syrian side of the border set on fire three kilometers of olive gardens in Jabal Akroum in the North.
22 May 2013, 14:40 MTV: Gunmen loyal to al-Asir deployed around the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in Sidon and the reason is still unknown.
22 May 2013, 14:35 U.S. Secretary of State Kerry said thousands of Hizbullah members are deployed in Syria, accusing the party of dragging Lebanon into war.
22 May 2013, 14:29 Future TV: The army has brought in more reinforcements to the Bab al-Tabbaneh area.
22 May 2013, 14:05 VDL (100.5): The Syrian army made a 50-meter incursion into Jabal Akroum and burned crops on the Lebanese and Syrian sides of the border.
22 May 2013, 13:26 MP Kabbara denied to MTV reports claiming that his motorcade came under gunfire in Tripoli.
22 May 2013, 13:21 LBCI: Kabbara's convoy came under gunfire near Barrad al-Bisar but no one was hurt and his bodyguards fired back at the shooters.
22 May 2013, 13:20 LBCI: The leaders of Bab al-Tabbaneh's fighting frontiers will inform Kabbara and the accompanying delegation of their final stance on the ceasefire within two hours.
22 May 2013, 13:11 LBCI: Kabbara's meeting with the leaders of the fighting frontiers at Harba Mosque has reportedly failed to achieve any result.
22 May 2013, 12:45 LBCI: MP Khodr Habib's bodyguard, State Security agent Youssef al-Faqir, was wounded in Jabal Mohsen.
22 May 2013, 12:35 MTV: Kabbara is meeting with retired Brig. Gen. Hammoud and the leaders of the fighting frontiers in Bab al-Tabbaneh.
22 May 2013, 12:25 Future TV: The army sent reinforcements to the Abu Ali roundabout amid a meeting for the leaders of Bab al-Tabbaneh's fighting frontiers to discuss the security developments.
22 May 2013, 11:34 LBCI: Shooting erupted after a dispute between the supporters of Asir and the Popular Nasserite Organization near Ain el-Hilweh.
22 May 2013, 11:30 President Suleiman telephoned caretaker Defense Minister Ghosn, Army chief Gen. Qahwaji and several other officials to discuss with them Tripoli's security situation.
22 May 2013, 11:12 March 14 General Secretariat after weekly meeting: Hizbullah's unjustified war in Syria is part of its agenda to empty the Lebanese state of its institutions.
22 May 2013, 10:28 ISF's Anti-Drug Bureau in the Bekaa detained a suspect wanted on several charges in the town of Brital.
22 May 2013, 10:13 British Foreign Secretary William Hague: Syrian President Bashar Assad is receiving increasing support from Iran and Hizbullah.
22 May 2013, 09:42 LBCI: The Arab Democratic Party said it ordered its supporters to exercise restraint and not to respond to the fire sources.
22 May 2013, 09:41 LBCI: The Arab Democratic Party said it pledges to remain committed to the cease fire.
22 May 2013, 09:33 Beirut police detained three Lebanese men over different charges and seized eight violating motorcycles and four other cars.
22 May 2013, 09:03 Future TV: Supporters of Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir blocked the entrance of the new Sidon cemetery in Sayroub to prevent the burial of a Hizbullah fighter.
22 May 2013, 09:01 OTV: The army deployed heavily in Sidon after the supporters of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir blocked several roads.
22 May 2013, 08:58 VDL (100.5): A meeting is underway between Berri and caretaker Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi.
22 May 2013, 08:55 A meeting is underway between President Michel Suleiman and Speaker Nabih Berri's adviser MP Ali Hasan Khalil.
22 May 2013, 08:27 MP Suleiman Franjieh: Neither the elections nor sectarianism will have an influence on us. We were and will always be with the resistance.
22 May 2013, 07:24 LBCI: Mahmoud Obeid died this morning in the Tripoli area of al-Mankoubin due to the fighting.
22 May 2013, 07:23 Israeli warplanes are overflying southern Lebanon.
22 May 2013, 06:13 ISF arrested 73 people for committing different crimes throughout Lebanon.
22 May 2013, 05:50 Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is attending Pope Francis's daily mass and is set to hold talks with him later in the day.
22 May 2013, 05:42 VDL (100.5): Sniper activity and sporadic gunfire is ongoing in Tripoli.
22 May 2013, 05:38 MTV: Fighting subsided in Tripoli amid traffic paralysis. Schools and universities remained shut.
22 May 2013, 05:22 MP Atef Majdalani to Free Lebanon: We made a proposal that guarantees the election of 55 MPs by the Christians but Aoun rejected it in coordination with Hizbullah.
22 May 2013, 04:38 Gasoline prices rose by LL200 while diesel prices increased LL300.
21 May 2013, 19:43 Al-Jadeed: A. Turkmani was killed in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh.
21 May 2013, 19:43 VDL (100.5): Clashes intensified significantly on the frontiers of al-Shaarani, al-Qobbeh and Hariri Project.
21 May 2013, 19:35 A sit-in organized by Tripoli's civil society figures got underway in rejection of the clashes.
21 May 2013, 19:24 VDL (100.5): Young man Ahmed Mustafa Shihab, who hails from Tripoli, was killed while fighting in Qusayr.
21 May 2013, 19:06 MP Mohammed Kabbara reciting a statement issued after a meeting for Tripoli's dignitaries: Tripoli calls on the state to restore its security and stability and defend it against the shabiha of Assad and Hassan Nasrallah who are killing the Lebanese and Syrian peoples.
21 May 2013, 19:05 MP Mohammed Kabbara reciting a statement issued after a meeting for Tripoli's dignitaries: The chiefs of security agencies know that Assad's party in Baal Mohsen is the aggressor, so how can they be lenient with the murderer and firm with the victim?
21 May 2013, 19:05 MP Mohammed Kabbara reciting a statement issued after a meeting for Tripoli's dignitaries: How can some shabiha kill the city's residents without being held accountable?
21 May 2013, 19:04 MP Mohammed Kabbara reciting a statement issued after a meeting for Tripoli's dignitaries: The threats of Assad's party, which were later executed, are a blatant crime that is tantamount to mass murder against an entire people and they deserve the death penalty. Rifaat Eid and Assad's shabiha must be arrested.
21 May 2013, 19:03 MP Mohammed Kabbara reciting a statement issued after a meeting for Tripoli's dignitaries: Does the state want to defend Tripoli or not?
21 May 2013, 18:29 VDL (100.5): Zeideddine Suleiman was killed by sniper fire in Jabal Mohsen.
21 May 2013, 18:12 VDL (100.5): A man was critically wounded in the vicinity of al-Qobbeh Square and was rushed to hospital.
21 May 2013, 17:55 LBCI: A woman and her two toddler daughters were wounded by the shrapnel of a shell near al-Jihad Mosque in Bab al-Tabbaneh.
21 May 2013, 17:45 Al-Mayadeen: The Arab Democratic Party has ceased fire after a mediation by the Army Command.
21 May 2013, 17:29 LBCI: The Arab Democratic Party has ordered a halt to all military operations in Tripoli and asked its fighters to leave matters to the army.
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