Security agencies have intensified their measures throughout Lebanon in light of Friday's terror attacks in Kuwait and Tunisia, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

A security source told the daily that the agencies went on alert in anticipation of the occurrence of new terrorist attacks.

For a third year Naharnet is hosting the official exam results for the Brevet for middle school students.

Brevet results will be announced over two stages starting Friday.

Lebanese authorities should adopt wide-ranging measures to combat torture, including creating a national monitoring body for detention facilities, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

The Lebanese government should further bring national laws and practices in compliance with its international obligations to prevent and combat torture, the New York-based rights group said on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

The Lebanese army said on Friday that it killed two jihadists after a group of gunmen tried to infiltrate the northeastern border town of Arsal.

The military said on its twitter account that it targeted a terrorist cell that was trying to enter the town from its outskirts.

The U.S. State Department has shed light on abuses carried out by official agencies in Lebanon last year as it unveiled its annual assessment of the state of human rights around the world.

It said in its 2014 report on Thursday that “the most significant human rights abuses during the year were torture and abuse by security forces, harsh prison and detention center conditions, and limitations on freedom of movement for Palestinian and Syrian refugees.”

The Obama administration is set to nominate Elizabeth Richard, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, as Ambassador to Lebanon, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Friday.

The daily quoted U.S. and diplomatic sources as saying that if Richard is confirmed by Congress, then she will replace David Hale.

Lebanese officials have warned of a huge Syrian refugee influx to Lebanon if the so-called Damascus battle erupts, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

The ministerial sources told the newspaper that if such an influx takes place, the displaced Syrians will include supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad from different sects.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam is allegedly procrastinating on calling for a cabinet session to avoid a confrontation between the Hizbullah ministers and Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi against the backdrop of the video of the Roumieh prison torture.

Salam has expressed fears that the dispute between them would grow after Rifi, who represents al-Mustaqbal Movement in the cabinet, accused Hizbullah of leaking the video clips showing several prison guards beating Islamist inmates, al-Joumhouria newspaper said Friday.

German federal prosecutors have said they have filed terrorism charges against four men, among them three Lebanese, on allegations they supported an ultraconservative Syrian rebel organization, Ahrar al-Sham.

Prosecutors said Thursday that Lebanese nationals Kassem El R., 32 and Hassan A.S., 29, German Nuran B., 49, and Ali F., 30, who has dual Lebanese-German citizenship, have been charged with supporting a foreign terrorist organization.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc strongly condemned on Thursday the reported torture at the Roumieh prison as well as what it described as the “cheap opportunistic stances” that accompanied the scandal.

The bloc “strongly condemns the violations of some members of the official security agencies and their use of torture tactics with prisoners, regardless of the charges,” it said in a statement issued after its periodic meeting.