A panel established on Wednesday to devise a new parliamentary electoral law will hold weekly meetings in order to resolve a dispute that has resulted in the extension of parliament's term on two occasions.

The committee will hold its first meeting on December 1, revealed the daily An Nahar on Thursday.

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb revealed that negotiations with European companies to export Lebanon's garbage will kick off on Thursday, reported As Safir newspaper.

He told the daily: “The negotiations rely on very critical calculations and technical details.”

The Islamic State has resorted to forming “cluster cells” of members in order to expand its ranks and adopting religious “brainwashing” to recruit new members, reported As Safir newspaper on Thursday.

Widely informed sources told the daily: “Confessions of some detainees have revealed that the IS has effective religious and security bodies that brainwash youths, who are mainly teenagers, in order to turn them into terrorist extremists within two months.”

A quantity of bomb-making material and arms was seized Wednesday and a Lebanese suspect was captured as several Syrians were arrested in raids across the country, as part of a massive crackdown launched in the wake of the Dahieh blasts.

“The Intelligence Bureau managed today to seize 150 kilograms of steel balls and material and tools used in the making of suicide vests,” the Internal Security Forces said in a statement.

The Change and Reform bloc led by MP Michel Aoun on Wednesday called for electing a president who would bring “change and solutions,” as it stressed that the electoral law for parliamentary polls must be “fair” for Christians.

“We are advocates of a change and solutions presidency,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

Beirut's famous Pigeons' Rock, better known as the Rock of Raouche, was illuminated Wednesday in the colors of the French and Lebanese flags in homage to the victims of the latest terrorist attacks.

French Ambassador to Lebanon Emmanuel Bonne took part in the illumination ceremony at Raouche's seaside corniche.

A rocket fired from an unidentified place landed Wednesday in an open field in the northern Bekaa town of Labweh, causing no casualties, state-run National News Agency reported.

Earlier in the day, the Lebanese army fired heavy- and medium-caliber weapons at suspicious movements by militant groups in the outskirts of the northern Bekaa towns of Arsal and Ras Baalbek, NNA said.

A parliamentary committee was set up Wednesday to devise a new electoral law, as part of the political settlement that had led to holding a legislative session on Thursday and Friday after around a one-year interruption.

“The panel is comprised of 10 members and it can convene with the presence of only six members,” Deputy Speaker Farid Makari announced after a meeting for the parliament bureau.

The Army Intelligence arrested on Wednesday more than 20 individuals in raids on encampments and residents of Syrian refugees in the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency said.

The army raided encampments and residences of Syrian refugees in the towns of Hosh al-Arab and Hosh Sneid and confiscated several motorbikes, NNA added.

State Commissioner to the Military Court charged on Wednesday nine people with belonging to the Islamic State group, reported the National News Agency.

The suspects include detainee Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hujeiri, who is charged with carrying out terrorist attacks, including bombing a meeting of the al-Qalamoun Muslim Scholars committee in the northeastern border town of Arsal on November 5.