A male suspect identified as Walid Obeid has been arrested on Saturday for the murder of Maroun Nohra who was killed in the southern town of Majdelyoun two days ago, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Members from the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch arrested the suspect in the Bekaa valley, NNA said.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri condemned on Saturday the terror attempt to target the Mecca Mosque in Saudi Arabia describing it as a “crime against Islam and Muslims.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Moscow on Friday and said that the safe zones conducted by Russia in Syria may help Lebanon solve the issue of refugees, media reports said.

“It is possible that the success of creating safe zones will allow the return of some displaced people and Syrian refugees who currently live in our country, Jordan and Turkey. So, the problem of the Syrian refugees could be partially solved but a political solution for the crisis is necessary,” said Jumblat during his meeting with Lavrov, the first between the two men in two years.

Hizbullah on Saturday condemned what it described as a “shameful bid” to target the Mecca Mosque in Saudi Arabia, the party said in a statement.

Hizbullah denounces the "disgraceful attempt to target the sacred Mosque in Mecca by a group belonging to takfiri and terror gangs which practice killing and shed blood without any hindrance,” read the statement.

A Syrian national accused of operating one of the largest sex trafficking rings in Lebanon has been released on bail, a judicial source told the AFP news agency on Friday.

The United Nations on Friday rejected Israeli claims that Hizbullah militants were establishing observation posts along the border under the cover of an environmental NGO.

The jihadist Islamic State group has killed three Hizbullah members in Syria, one of whom was executed, media reports said on Friday.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah reassured Friday that Israel does not intend to wage a war on Lebanon in the near future but warned that “tens of thousands” of foreign fighters could fight alongside the “axis of resistance” in any future conflict.

Army intelligence agents have arrested a man who played key roles in several bomb and rocket attacks that hit Lebanon in recent years, media reports said.

Minister of State for Security the Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP has ended a two day visit to Lebanon, where he highlighted the strength of the UK’s security partnership with Lebanon, a press release said on Friday.

During his two-day, the Minister met Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq; the heads of the Armed Forces, Internal Security Forces and General Security, as well as other senior security chiefs; and witnessed UK projects to support the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces.