Minister of Environment Tarek al-Khatib met with Ambassador Christina Lassen, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon where talks focused on the waste management strategy and the need to protect Lebanon's global resources, including the Mediterranean sea, a press release said.

Former Environment Mohammed al-Mashnouq revealed on Friday that three sons of Lebanese ministers in the government are fighting alongside Hizbullah's ranks in the Syrian war.

Mashnouq said he had a conversation with someone whose identity was not disclosed, he said he asked him “how can Lebanon dissociate itself from the war in Syria while three sons of Lebanese ministers are fighting with Hizbullah in Syria?”

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said he is willing to carry out any mission entrusted to him by the Lebanese government as for dialogue with Syria to facilitate the return of displaced Syrians home, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Two explosive bombs targeting army troops blew up at dawn on Friday in the northeastern border town of Arsal, LBCI reported.

The bombs exploded and another was dismantled by the security forces in the Arsal neighborhood of al-Jamalah, it added.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed that allies of the Syrian regime must pressure the regime into securing safe zones in Syria for the displaced to return back home, and assured that Lebanon will block any attempt aiming to turn settlements camps into terror havens.

“Let them exert pressure on the regime to facilitate the establishment of secure areas on the Syrian side of the border,” said Hariri reportedly referring to Hizbullah without naming the party.

The websites of Lebanon's state government agencies were hacked on Friday with postings professing support for Syrian refugees and slamming the country's military and security agencies after the crackdown on militants in encampments of displaced Syrians.

Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra lashed out at Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali's “interference in inter-Lebanese” dialogue revolving around the return of displaced Syrians, and said that he must be “summoned” over his remarks, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

State Minister for Human Rights Ayman Choucair on Thursday called on the army and the judiciary to probe the recent deaths of at least four Syrian detainees in army custody.

The government has decided to ask the Army Command to form a panel of inquiry into the death of at least four Syrian detainees in the army's custody, a media report said on Thursday.

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali has stressed that Syrian refugees in Lebanon cannot return home without “dialogue between the Lebanese and Syrian states.”