General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has stressed that Lebanon will win the battle against terrorism although he described the current security situation in the country as “worrisome.”

Some political parties are deliberately hampering an agreement on a new electoral law in order the keep the 1960 in effect, al-Liwaa daily reported on Friday.

“A failure to agree on a new electoral law is a sign of the complicity of the political parties to keep the law in force under the pretext of inability to agree on a new one,” unnamed sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.

The army's Airborne Regiment staged raids on Friday in the Bekaa border town of Masharii al-Qaa in search of terrorists, media reports said.

The telecommunications sector file and demands to replace OGERO Telecom chief Abdul Menhem Youssef over corruption claims consumed much of the cabinet session that was held on Thursday.

“The cabinet continued discussing the situations of the Telecom Ministry and the telecom minister answered the questions that some ministers had asked during the previous session and the ministers expressed their viewpoints over these answers,” said the cabinet in a statement recited by Information Minister Ramzi Jreij after the meeting.

A special army unit raided a post for the Islamic State group outside the northeastern border town of Arsal on Thursday and managed to arrest several terror suspects, media reports said.

Palestinian national Abd Abu Sannan was killed on Thursday at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, state-run National News Agency reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri chaired on Thursday the national dialogue's third meeting at Ain el-Tineh that was set to tackle a new electoral system.

Although the session was the last of three successive ones, it was decided that an extra meeting will be held on September 5.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday scheduled a presidential election session for Monday, August 8.

Hizbullah Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Thursday that contacts with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and other local banks have minimized the negative effect of an anti-Hizbullah U.S. law on the party, An Nahar daily reported.

“Thank God that through contacts with Salameh, the banking institutions and related authorities in Lebanon, the effect of a U.S. law has been minimally limited,” the daily quoted Qassem's interview to Reuters.

Parliamentary sources involved in the national dialogue meetings described the deliberations of the second day that tackled the creation of a Senate as a kind of “intellectual luxury” that mainly aimed to introduce something new to the people, but assured that the primary concern is the election of a president which is the “key to all the problems,” al-Liwaa daily reported on Thursday.