Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil warned Tuesday that some foreign countries might seek to “arm” Syrian refugees in Lebanon with the aim of implementing certain political schemes.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji reassured Tuesday that the army is fully ready to confront “any terrorist attack or activity” inside the country and on the border with Syria.

The Egyptian Satellite Company, NileSat, has asked Lebanon's telecom ministry to halt the broadcast of Hizbullah's al-Manar TV via NileSat as of this morning, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported Tuesday.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called for “measures” to expedite the return of Syrian refugees to their country in light of the latest ceasefire there and the decline in violence.

Head of the parliamentary media committee MP Hassan Fadlallah called on the judicial authorities to shoulder the responsibility with regard to the illegal internet network file away from political interference.

Following the committee's meeting held in the presence of Ministers of Defense Samir Moqbel and Telecommunications Butros Harb, Fadlallah said: “There are no answers so far on how the stations and the equipment were installed.”

The Health Ministry sealed with red wax on Tuesday the clinic of a doctor involved in the recently uncovered sex trafficking ring.

Officials from the ministry accompanied by security forces raided the clinic of Dr. Riyad al-Alam in the Jounieh area north of Beirut.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat said on Tuesday that several heated files in Lebanon are marred with corruption, firing accusations against officials without naming them in covering a prostitution ring that was unveiled last week.

He said that the sex slavery ring unveiled has been in business for many years and in complicity with senior officials at the Vice Squad.

Beirut State Prosecutor for Appeals Judge Ziad Abou Haidar charged on Tuesday seven people accused of storming the offices of Asharq al-Awsat newspaper last week.

A group of activists briefly raided the offices of the Saudi-owned newspaper protesting a cartoon published in its Friday edition.

A store burned down after a grenade was tossed in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh at dawn Tuesday, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said that a clothing store owned by Palestinian Rasem Sariyeh was gutted by the fire after the hand grenade attack at the camp's al-Fawqani street.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has said that Lebanon is among the countries that are refusing to “exchange information” after tax evasion probes were launched following a massive leak of confidential documents that lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and celebrities.

The scandal erupted on Sunday when media groups began revealing the results of a year-long investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specializes in creating offshore shell companies.