The Free Patriotic Movement and al-Mustaqbal movement continued their war of words on Tuesday after FPM chief and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil warned of an alleged scheme to naturalize Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, al-Mustaqbal bloc condemned what it called Bassil's “shameful behavior towards U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon when he refused to receive him and welcome him.”

Two teenagers have been arrested on charges of calling the police and threatening to blow up police stations, the Internal Security Forces announced Tuesday.

A retired Internal Security Forces brigadier general and a chief warrant officer have been detained on charges of forging medical aid bills, state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zoaiter said on Tuesday that an amount of $1.4 million is required to buy equipment to complete the security procedures at the Rafik Hariri International Airport.

“We need funding to buy the equipment that serve the airport's safety and security,” he said in a press conference he held at the terminal.

Unknown assailants tossed a hand grenade on Tuesday in the al-Fawqani street at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The grenade attack was followed by machine-gun fire at the grocery market conjunction, NNA added.

Western security officials have warned that the Islamic State extremist group began mulling once again to transfer the battle from the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal to the northern district of Akkar.

The officials, according to al-Akhbar daily published on Tuesday, said that the IS is eyeing Akkar and planning on renewing its strategy to create a passage to Lebanon's coastline by linking the Syrian Qalamoun mountains with Arsal and Akkar.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front has distributed leaflets in Syrian refugee encampments, which lie outside the Lebanese army’s control in the northeastern border town of Arsal, that it will no longer be able to protect them next month, al-Akhar daily reported on Tuesday.

Al-Nusra informed the residents of the settlements that it will leave the area by April 15, sources in Arsal told the newspaper.

Speaker Nabih Berri is expected to urge Lebanon’s rival leaders during Wednesday’s all-party talks to agree on an electoral law, sources have said.

The sources told al-Mustaqbal daily published on Tuesday that Berri will review during the national dialogue session, which he will chair in Ain el-Tineh, the final report of the parliamentary committee tasked with drafting the electoral law.

The European Union is exerting efforts to label Hizbullah a terrorist organization and implement sanctions against it, political and intelligence sources have said.

The sources told the Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah published on Tuesday that the EU would implement the sanctions not just on Hizbullah but on all those who support it and back it if the party was officially labeled a terrorist group.

French President Francois Hollande is expected to visit Beirut on April 16 in a "show of support" for Lebanon amid difficult conditions in the Middle East, a French source said on Tuesday.

The source told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that Hollande’s trip to Lebanon would be part of a tour to the region that will also take him to Egypt and Jordan.