The authorities have foiled a plot by militants from Syria to create a passage to West Bekaa, the South and the North to establish their planned emirate on Lebanese territories, As Safir daily reported Friday.

The newspaper said that the authorities have intercepted conversations and seized documents from extremist groups that revealed a plot to open the passage to the West Bekaa area through the Majdal Anjar Valley and to the South so that they could reach areas where Palestinian camps are located.

Complications rose on the possibility of opening an extraordinary session for Parliament due to the bickering of blocs over the ongoing presidential vacuum and the absence of urgent draft-laws.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday that “a wide spectrum of Christian MPs are convinced that there is no necessity to open an extraordinary session for the parliament before the election of a new head of state.”

French Ambassador Patrice Paoli has denied that Paris was drafting a U.N. Security Council Resolution against Hizbullah as a top official in New York warned that the situation in the border area between Lebanon and Israel remains “very fragile.”

France “calls for the protection of Lebanon's sovereignty, its territorial integrity and Resolution 1701,” Paoli said in remarks published in An Nahar daily on Friday.

The embassy of a Gulf country was advised to step up its security measures and take maximum precautions to avert a double suicide bombing by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Friday, security agencies obtained information that ISIL is planning to target the Gulf embassy, which was not specified, with a double suicide bombing.

An unknown person has raped a nine-year-old boy at a school in the northern district of Akkar.

The state-run National News Agency reported Thursday that “Fatima A. M. filed a report at the Halba police department claiming that an unknown person had raped her 9-year-old son Kamel H.”

The border area facing the southern town of Kfarkila witnessed “unusual” Israeli military activity on Thursday, which was monitored by the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers.

“The area opposite Kfarkila witnessed unusual Israeli military activity this afternoon,” Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

The Governor of Beirut ordered on Thursday the closure of the fish market in Karantina for not meeting health standards, three months after he gave similar instructions to shut the slaughterhouse in the same area for renovations, which prompted angry vendors to block the vital road outside the facility.

Governor Ziad Shebib visited the market and gave the fish traders until Friday to sell their catch.

The General Directorate of State Security detained in the Bekaa Valley on Thursday three Syrians for forging entry documents for Syrian refugees to cross into Lebanon.

The state-run National News Agency reported that Abdul Jawad Salloum, Mahmoud Nayef and Maamoun al-Ilka were arrested in the eastern Bekaa towns of Bar Elias and Majdal Anjar.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam arrived Thursday in Germany at the head of a ministerial delegation to take part in the three-day Munich Security Conference (MSC).

Salam is expected to address around midnight Friday more than 40 heads of government and state, along with 60-odd foreign and defense ministers including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov.

A campaign to remove party banners and photos from Beirut and several cities was launched on Thursday, the result of talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement.

The governor of Beirut, Ziad Shebib, told reporters that 90 percent of political slogans and posters have already been removed.