The General Directorate of General Security wrapped up Thursday its investigations into the bombing that rocked Zahle's Ksara area in late August, noting that Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras was briefly held in the case for interrogation over a meeting in Turkey with the attack's mastermind.

The Ambassadors of France, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon met on Thursday with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and reaffirmed their strong support for the continued stability and security of Lebanon, a joint statement said.

“The ambassadors and the Special Coordinator commended the efforts of the Prime Minister to govern under increasingly difficult circumstances and conveyed their ongoing support for his work,” said the statement.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri described the Iranian political and media war against Saudi Arabia as “an episode in a dangerous series that only aims at exacerbating discord and threatening stability in the region.”

“After the irresponsible words of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the eve of Eid al-Adha, his foreign minister came out with a text full of hatred against Saudi Arabia,” said Hariri on Twitter.

Telecommunications Minister Boutros Harb stated on Thursday that parties claiming to be defending the rights of the Christians are the same ones hampering the election of a president and thus harming the Christians' right to have a Maronite head of state.

“Those raising the slogan of defending the Christians' rights and the National Pact are deluding the people that the lingering conflict over positions is between Muslims and Christians,” said Harb in a press conference.

The Lebanese army arrested thirty Palestinians on Thursday against the backdrop of a clash that erupted a day earlier in the northern refugee camp of al-Beddawi, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The army cordoned off the camp setting checkpoints and taking strict security measures that led to the arrest of the detainees.

A judicial source in the Military Court which received the preliminary investigation in the case of detained Youssef Fakher, nicknamed the Cowboy, said that the suspect is involved in a Mossad planning of an assassination attempt against Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

Fakher has been arrested by the General Security about a month and a half ago on suspicion of dealing with the Israeli enemy and for involvement in buying arms and forming armed groups, added the daily.

A meeting between Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and his ally founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun is expected to take place soon, as the FPM vow to escalate measures and launch street rallies should their demand to bring Aoun to the top Christian post fail, As Safir daily reported on Thursday.

Sources told the daily on condition of anonymity that the meeting between Aoun and Nasrallah is “inevitable”. It will take place either before the cabinet meets on September 28, if it guarantees to bring Aoun to the seat of the presidency, or after the cabinet meeting in order to put the leadership of Hizbullah in the picture as for the escalation planned by the FPM after the last chance to bring Aoun as president fails.

The Free Patriotic Movement chose to brand its planned street movements under the title of commitment to the National Pact in order to embarrass its allies into participation in the rally it called for on September 28 and October 7, media reports said on Thursday.

Change and Reform ministerial sources said that the FPM decided to raise the slogan of the “National Pact” in its demonstration in an attempt to embarrass its allies mainly the Lebanese Forces to push them towards participation.

Several people were wounded Wednesday when a personal dispute erupted into an armed clash between Lebanese and Palestinian young men in the northern area of al-Beddawi, media reports said.

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc announced Wednesday that it has started mobilizing for street protests on September 28 and October 13 as part of its escalatory steps that are aimed at pressing the other parties in the country to “abide by the National Pact.”