Around 400 Lebanese youth from the north had joined jihadists in Syria since the beginning of the war in the neighboring country, media reports said on Saturday.

As Safir newspaper reported that in 2014 around 200 Lebanese youth from the north, most of them between 18 – 22, headed to Syria to join rebels.

Fugitives Ousama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi reportedly ordered jihadists to carry out attacks against French interests in Lebanon in retaliation for the new cartoon of the prophet Mohammed published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

According to Ad Diyar newspaper published on Saturday, Mansour and Mawlawi, who are currently residing in the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, ordered their group members to carry out terrorist suicide attacks against French headquarters in Beirut.

The head of al-Mustaqbal Movement ex-premier Saad Hariri reportedly transferred compensations for the residents of the northern neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen who were harmed by the latest bombing in the area.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Saturday, the money was transferred to the Interior Ministry, which will supervise the spending.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah announced about “clear progress” in the dialogue between them, and that it may lead to “results that help consolidate the nation stability.”

After the third dialogue session which took place on Friday in Ain al-Tineh the two parties discussed “ last week's political and security situation and the positive effect of the dialogue on it.”

Former MP Ghattas Khoury continued on Friday his testimony before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, recounting how slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri began to ally himself with the emergent anti-Syria opposition in Lebanon in the aftermath of the extension of the term of President Emile Lahoud in September 2004.

The early signs of his joining of the opposition began with Hariri's rejection of the inclusion of pro-Syria figures on electoral lists devised for the 2005 parliamentary elections.

Health Minister Wael About Faour canceled the contracts between the Ministry of Health and al-Hayat Hospital on Friday, referring a doctor to the disciplinary board and warning two pharmacists ad part of the anti-corruption campaign that he started more than two months ago.

In a statement, the ministry announced that Abou Faour “scrapped the contract between the ministry and al-Hayat Hospital, and a probe will be launched into the hospital’s conduct with patients.”

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat rejected on Friday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's stands regarding Bahrain, saying that “hundreds of thousands of Lebanese immigrants live in the gulf,” and these remarks are not in their “benefit”.

Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa condemned on Friday last week's remarks by Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the developments in the kingdom.

He described, via Twitter, the party leader as a “terrorist agent,” adding that the Arab League statement on Nasrallah's remarks “were as clear as day.”

The Lebanese army said a suspect was injured in a clash after attacking a patrol in the northern city of Tripoli on Thursday night as the military announced a series of arrests it has made.

The army said in its communique that the patrol came under fire by Khaled Zakaria al-Khaled when it interfered to disperse gunmen involved in a family fight in the area of al-Beddawi.

Israel's Supreme Court has thrown out a suit by a former Lebanese prisoner seeking damages from the Jewish state for his alleged torture while in Israeli custody.

The court on Thursday ruled that the nearly 15-year-old attempt by Mustafa Dirani to claim $1.3 million in compensation was not actionable in Israeli courts.