The Army Intelligence arrested on Wednesday more than 20 individuals in raids on encampments and residents of Syrian refugees in the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency said.

The army raided encampments and residences of Syrian refugees in the towns of Hosh al-Arab and Hosh Sneid and confiscated several motorbikes, NNA added.

State Commissioner to the Military Court charged on Wednesday nine people with belonging to the Islamic State group, reported the National News Agency.

The suspects include detainee Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujeiri, who is charged with carrying out terrorist attacks, including bombing a meeting of the al-Qalamoun Muslim Scholars committee in the northeastern border town of Arsal on November 5.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Wednesday that his country will do all it can to prevent terrorism from fanning out to Lebanon, the National News Agency said.

“Russia will do everything it can to prevent terrorism from spreading to Lebanon,” said Lavrov prior to a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Jebran Bassil in Moscow.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam is expected to attend the climate summit set to be held in France at the end of the month, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.

The summit is scheduled to be held on November 30.

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb criticized how his plan to end the country's garbage disposal crisis was managed, reported the daily An Nahar on Wednesday.

He told the daily: “My proposal was obstructed for political reasons, as well as reasons linked to various areas in the country.”

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc welcomed Tuesday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent call for a political settlement, while stressing that the “real political solution” must start with the election of a new president.

Nasrallah's remarks were “good and positive, especially in terms of his commitment to the Taef Accord and the Constitution, away from the idea of the constituent assembly,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

The detainee Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujeiri, aka Kahroub, was involved in the bomb attacks that killed a number of Syrian Muslim clerics and wounded Lebanese troops in the northeastern border town of Arsal, the army said Tuesday.

“Along with a man called Abou Ali al-Yabroudi, the detainee Hujeiri collected information about the time and place of the meeting that the Qalamoun Scholars Committee held in Arsal,” the Army Command said in a statement.

“Large quantities” of explosives, “armed” suicide vests and detonators were seized Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli as the Internal Security Forces arrested a number of suspects accused of having communicated with a would-be suicide bomber prior to his arrest, media reports said.

A patrol from the Intelligence Bureau's Strike Force carried out raids in the city's al-Qobbeh district where it arrested several terror suspects, LBCI television said.

The country's political parties agreed during a national dialogue session on Tuesday to “activate the work of state institutions, especially the cabinet,” as reports said that they also decided to export the accumulating garbage as a solution to the waste disposal crisis.

“The conferees stressed the need to activate the work of state institutions, especially the cabinet, in order to address the pressing issues,” said an official statement issued after the talks in Ain al-Tineh.

The army arrested several Syrian nationals in raids on the border town of Wadi Khaled and the northern district of Minieh, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The army carried out raids on the Bqayaa neighborhood in Wadi Khaled and some residential compounds of Syrians where it arrested several, NNA added.