Russia has assured Israel that it has not transferred arms to Hizbullah as part of its military operations in Syria, Israel’s ambassador to Moscow said.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Ambassador Zvi Heifetz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday that Moscow’s claim was sparked by an international media report asserting that Russia was supplying arms to Hizbullah.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on Monday the arrest of Hizbullah members on charges of using millions of dollars from the sale of cocaine in the U.S. and Europe to purchase weapons in Syria.

The arrests targeted a Hizbullah network that provides "a revenue and weapons stream ... responsible for devastating terror attacks around the world," DEA Acting Deputy Administrator Jack Riley said in a statement.

Speaker Nabih Berri has accused Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea of manipulating politicians after he became incapacitated to launch verbal attacks on his long-time rival Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun.

“Geagea is sitting up there and manipulating us,” he said about the LF chief's residence in the mountainous town of Maarab.

The release of five Czech citizens who were kidnapped in Lebanon last year came as part of a swap deal to set free a Lebanese-Ukrainian man held by the authorities in Prague, reports said Tuesday.

According to the reports, the Czech authorities approved to transfer Ali Taan Fayad, also known as Ali Amin, to Kiev despite a decision taken by a court in Prague to extradite him to the United States along with two Ivory Coast citizens.

Tightened restrictions and plummeting international aid have left Syrian refugee women in Lebanon more vulnerable to exploitation including sexual harassment, rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.

Released ahead of a key donor conference for Syria in London this week, the report urges greater financial support and more resettlement opportunities for Syrian refugees from the international community.

Five Czech citizens who were kidnapped in the Bekaa region in July 2015 were freed on Monday, state-run National News Agency reported.

“The five Czechs who were abducted in July on the Kifraya road in western Bekaa were released this evening,” NNA said.

The Kataeb Party on Monday accused some parties of seeking to impose a “sole presidential candidate” on the country.

Kataeb “condemns some parties' attempt to practice subjugation and confine the presidential elections to voting to a sole candidate out of the others,” said the party in a statement issued after its political bureau's weekly meeting.

An armed dispute erupted on Monday between the al-Murad and al-Sabaqji families in the northern city of Tripoli over power generators, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

It said that a Syrian national was accidentally killed in the armed clash that took place in al-Barranieh and al-Jisrain areas, said al-Jadeed television.

The Lebanese Forces snapped back at Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh on Monday, denying that it had asked for assistance to engage in dialogue with Hizbullah.

“Franjieh's claim that the LF asked for help to engage in serious dialogue with Hizbullah is not true,” the LF's media office said in a statement.

Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said the rapprochement between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces is intended to

transcend sectarian and political divisions.