The next cabinet session set to discuss the decision-making mechanism faces a number of thorny issues that need to be addressed in light of the closure of the Naameh landfill and the protests of the families of Jbeil and Hbaline stopping dump-trucks from entering the landfill, al-Anwar daily reported on Monday.

Residents of the town of Naameh south of Beirut staged on Friday a sit-in near the landfill after the last dump truck left the facility following the expiry of the deadline for its closure.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea held talks Sunday evening with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz at the al-Salam Palace in Jeddah.

The meeting tackled “the latest developments in the Lebanese arena,” the kingdom's news agency SPA reported.

Ten suspected terrorists were arrested Sunday evening in the northern Bekaa region, according to media reports.

“Army intelligence agents apprehended in the northern Bekaa town of al-Labweh ten individuals suspected on belonging to a terrorist organization,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Abou Malek al-Talli, the so-called emir of al-Nusra Front's Qalamloun branch, has threatened to invade border towns in Lebanon's Bekaa region in retaliation to Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria.

“You are leading Lebanon into the abyss,” al-Talli said in an interview with MTV, addressing Hizbullah.

A young man accused of killing his relative during a family dispute was arrested Sunday in the Bekaa city of Baalbek.

“The Internal Security Forces' detective department in Baalbek arrested H. M. A. Awada, who is accused of killing Mohammed Awada during a family clash that also left two people injured on the eve of Eid al-Fitr,” state-run National News Agency reported.

A senior Hizbullah official announced Sunday that the nuclear deal that was recently reached between Iran and the top world powers will not push the Tehran-backed party to change its policies.

“Hizbullah will remain the same after the Iranian nuclear agreement. Today, tomorrow and everyday it will be the party of resistance that supports Palestine and protects Lebanon from every threat, be it Israeli or takfiri,” Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, the deputy head of the party's Executive Council, declared.

Five Czechs who disappeared Saturday in the Bekaa region were likely kidnapped in connection with the Czech Republic's recent arrest of a man suspected of having ties to Hizbullah, a media report said Sunday.

Citing “intersecting security reports,” MTV said the Lebanese driver who vanished with the Czechs, Saeb Taan, is “a brother of Ali Taan, also known as Ali Fayyad, who was apprehended in the Czech Republic during the recent wave of arrests that targeted Hizbullah security cadres in Europe.”

A major blaze erupted Sunday at a forest in the Ijdaabrine area in the northern Koura district, state-run National News Agency reported.

The fire has gutted vast areas containing trees and bushes, NNA said.

Security forces uncovered on Sunday an attempt to smuggle narcotic pills from the Rafik Hariri International Airport to an Arab country in North Africa, the Internal Security Forces announced in a statement.

It said that around 15.5 kilograms of captagon pills, hidden in a child's crib, were seized from a Syrian traveler.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi hoped on Sunday for an end to the presidential vacuum in the country that began in May 2014.

He said: “We pray for the election of a head of state to revitalize constitutional institutions.”