Two hand grenades and a landmine were found near Notre Dame Hospital in Jounieh, north of Beirut, media reports said Friday.

The grenades and the mine were discovered in a bucket, they said.

Imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah mosque Salafist cleric Ahmed al-Asir considered on Tuesday that the campaign against him by the Syrian regime and its allies is linked to his opposing stances.

“The allies of the Syrian regime are besieging me” by turning the Sunnis against him, he told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper.

Israeli officials asked visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin to exert efforts to stop Syrian biological and chemical weapons from falling into the hands of Hizbullah, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said.

"We asked Putin for Russia to work more actively to preserve stability in Syria, to prevent biological and chemical weapons from falling into the hands of Hizbullah or other terror groups," the source told Israeli daily Haaretz.

The Lebanese Judiciary will release within two days a new group of Islamists, who are detained in Roumieh prison, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Sources told the daily that the prisoners will be released by Thursday.

The head of Britain’s domestic spy agency Jonathan Evans has stressed that several countries, including Iran, shouldn't be underestimated in the evolving terror threat landscape.

"We have seen in recent months a series of attempted terrorist plots against Israeli interests in India, Azerbaijan and elsewhere," he said in prepared remarks ahead of a rare public speech Monday to the Lord Mayor's annual defense and security lecture in London.

President Michel Suleiman traveled to Bahrain on Tuesday as part of his efforts to convince the leaderships of four Gulf countries to review their travel advisories to Lebanon.

He held talks with King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa on bilateral ties and the situation in the Middle East.

Unknown gunmen on Monday attacked al-Jadeed television’s headquarters in the Beirut neighborhood of Wata el-Msaytbeh, opening fire on the building, hurling Molotov bombs and setting fire to tires.

“Masked attackers assaulted the employees and burned tires after trying to storm the building,” al-Jadeed news director Mariam al-Bassam told MTV.

The Phalange Party warned Monday that chaos is the alternative of national dialogue, calling on President Michel Suleiman and the country's leaders to broaden the discussions in the dialogue committee and move to “rescue Lebanon from all illegitimate arms.”

In a statement issued after a meeting of its political bureau, the Phalange Party said that “Hizbullah's weapons have started spawning other weapons, which might turn Lebanon into an arsenal of illegal arms,” calling on the party officials to “shoulder their national responsibility and present a vision about their arms and to acknowledge the exclusive legitimacy of the state’s weapons.”

Hizbullah on Monday hailed the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi as president of Egypt as "historic," and said it hoped the country would regain its leadership role in the Arab world.

"Hizbullah congratulates the great Egyptian people for this historic election," the party said, adding that it hoped Morsi would enable Egypt "to regain its leadership role in the Muslim-Arab world and to define the future of the region."

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said Monday that “the challenges facing the new Egyptian president are many,” adding that the victory of Mohammed Morsi as Egypt’s president is a “gradual progress towards strengthening the achievements of the revolution which led to the uprooting of dictatorship, and paving the way for democracy.”

In his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa magazine, Jumblat said that the Egyptian president faces many challenges to develop the country and its people “including the installation of the emerging democratic system and expanding the base of political participation, as well as economic challenges in terms of fighting against poverty and illiteracy.”