The Customs' anti-narcotics unit seized overnight a vegetable truck loaded with drugs, As Safir newspaper reported on Friday.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil revealed to the newspaper that the truck was coming from the Bekaa and the drugs were going to be smuggled to Egypt.

Head of Hizbullah's Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad criticized on Thursday Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri's positions on the Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen, saying that linking Iran to the developments in Yemen and Lebanon are a “major mistake.”

He said in a statement: “Only ignorants and cowards remain silent over Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen.”

Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan held talks on Thursday with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea as part of the dialogue between the Free Patriotic Movement and LF and their plan to announce a “declaration of intentions.”

Kanaan said after the meeting: “The declaration is almost complete.”

The Army Intelligence succeeded on Thursday in freeing an Iraqi hostage who was kidnapped earlier during the day, announced the army in a statement.

Laith Tamer Salman was kidnapped in the border region of Wadi Khaled in exchange for a ransom.

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil stressed the necessity on Thursday to combat corruption prevailing in the management of Lebanon's ports and customs, as the Minister of Industry Hussein Hajj Hassan, vowed to “fully back” the reform plan.

“Lebanon should observe an actual change in the management of ports and customs,” said Khalil during a meeting with Hajj Hassan and Economy Minister Alain Hakim at the Finance Ministry.

The U.N. has launched an emergency vaccination campaign against lumpy skin disease and goat plague among animals brought to Lebanon by refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict, a report said Thursday.

Some of the 1.5 million refugees have brought with them large numbers of un-vaccinated sheep, goats, cattle and other animals, raising concerns over the spread of high impact animal diseases, the U.N.'s food agency said.

An 18-month-old baby was injured from a bullet during a gunfight in the eastern district of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency reported Thursday.

Qassem Mohammed Zoaiter was wounded in the head when his parents' vehicle was caught in the crossfire in the town of al-Hamoudiyeh, NNA said.

The Saudi Ambassador to Beirut, Ali Awadh Asiri, has urged Hizbullah without naming it to deal with its own issues rather than meddle in Riyadh's affairs.

The parties that “shove” themselves into the Saudi-led coalition's move against Huthi rebels in Yemen and which “have the audacity” to criticize Saudi Arabia “should deal with their own affairs,” Asiri said in remarks published on Thursday.

The Lebanese authorities are mulling ways to transport goods by sea after overland exports to Gulf states stopped last week following a rebel seizure of the Syrian side of the border with Jordan.

At least 30 drivers were stranded on the Syrian-Jordanian border's free zone area last Wednesday after they entered the crossing, as a group of rebels, backed by al-Nusra Front, seized control of it following clashes with government forces.

The U.S. embassy in Beirut is supposed to reach out to Lebanon's residents, but scammers have reportedly taken advantage, impersonating the ambassador in a bid to solicit money.

In an email and postings on social media on Wednesday, the embassy warned that messages seeking money, purportedly from ambassador David Hale, were the work of fraudsters.