Jordanian military prosecutors on Monday charged eight suspects, including a Syrian fugitive, with plotting to attack U.S. soldiers and Israel's embassy in the kingdom and recruiting people to join Hizbullah.

"State security court prosecutors accused the eight men with plotting to carry out terrorist acts, including attacks against U.S. soldiers in 2006 and the Israeli embassy in Amman," a court official told Agence France Presse.

A man hurled three hand grenades Monday afternoon near a mosque in Tripoli's al-Zahriyeh area, leaving five people wounded.

“Five people were injured when I. B. threw 3 hand grenades indiscriminately in al-Zahriyeh,” MTV reported.

Al-Nusra Front threatened Monday to use force to “liberate” its prisoners in Lebanon's jails, warning that the fate of the captive Lebanese security personnel would be at stake should Hizbullah wage an attack on the Syrian Qalamun region.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq described Nusra's threat to kill the troops as “not serious,” telling a delegation from their families that their liberation is “a duty, a commitment and a national responsibility that has no room for leniency or procrastination and that won't be subject to bargaining."

Electricite du Liban contract workers on Monday stopped the company's employees from entering the firm's headquarters in Beirut's Mar Mikhael area, a move that the energy minister and the company's director described as a “riot.”

Following a meeting held at the energy ministry by EDL's board of directors, the state-run firm's director general Kamal al-Hayek urged the contract workers to “calm down” and said the law protects everyone.

A group of gunmen deployed on Monday in the northeastern border town of Arsal, media reports said, a day after militants raided the houses of residents, who are staunch supporters of the Lebanese army.

“More than 100 Lebanese and Syrian armed men in civilian clothes are deploying in Arsal,” Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri has reportedly informed Speaker Nabih Berri that he backed a “logical settlement” on the presidential deadlock by agreeing on personalities, who are currently not candidates.

Al-Akhbar daily said that Hariri's proposal on the settlement, includes the withdrawal of the candidacies of Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea and his rival Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to “agree on a personality who is capable of protecting the political understanding.”

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq stressed on Monday the importance of “secrecy” regarding the case of the security personnel, who were taken hostage by Islamist gunmen in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

“Efforts are ongoing on all levels to ensure the safe release of the abductees,” Mashnouq said in comments published in As Safir and An Nahar newspapers.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stayed mum on efforts he is exerting along with Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat to resolve the presidential deadlock.

Local newspapers quoted Berri as saying on Monday that he “cannot talk about any possible progress to guarantee the success of the work we are doing.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is expected to travel to the Vatican on Thursday to meet with Pope Francis and senior officials.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Monday, talks will focus on the presidential deadlock and the exodus of Christians and minorities in Iraq and Syria.

Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat noted on Sunday that the fight against the Islamic State group is still “at the beginning,” as Lebanese Democratic Party chief MP Talal Arslan said there is a “unified stance” with the head of the Progressive Socialist Party in the face of the “impending danger.”

“Political diversity in Baisour is valuable for Lebanon and the nation and we must preserve diversity in order to boost stability and fight the takfiris,” said Jumblat during a joint visit with Arslan to the Aley District town.