General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim warned that Friday's suicide bombing against a security forces checkpoint in the Dahr al-Baydar region in the eastern Bekaa was not a “verbal warning, but an actual terrorist attack,” reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

He told the daily: “We are in a constant battle with the terrorism that is targeting the region and not just Lebanon. Lebanon is not an isolated island, but it falls within the grasp of takfiri or Zionist terrorism, which are both two sides of the same coin.”

The recent meeting between head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat failed to make a breakthrough in the dispute over the presidential elections, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

Informed sources explained that Jumblat voiced his commitment to the nomination of Democratic Gathering MP Henri Helou, while the former premier expressed his commitment to maintaining his rapprochement with head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun.

Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri is scheduled to hold talks next week with United States Secretary of State John Kerry, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Friday.

An informed source told the daily that the two officials are set to meet in the French capital Paris on Thursday.

Investigations in Friday's car bombing in the Dahr al-Baydar region are underway with the concerned authorities looking into telephone calls linked to the incident, as well as surveillance camera footage, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

It revealed that the authorities have obtained the telecom data connected to the attack.

The United Arab Emirates urged its citizens on Saturday to refrain from traveling to Lebanon citing the country's “shaky security situation” as a cause.

"Emiratis currently present in Lebanon must leave the country immediately,” UAE's charge d'affaires Hamad Mohammed al-Junaibi said.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed during their Paris meeting on the “necessity to strengthen joint action” to secure holding the pending constitutional junctures, a statement released by the PSP revealed on Saturday.

The leaders highlighted the importance of holding these junctures, on top of them the presidential elections “to avoid extending vacuum (in the presidency) and to preserve the institutional work in this critical phase,” the statement detailed.

The Internal Security Forces apprehended on Saturday the members of a prostitution ring in the Mount Lebanon town of Brummana, all of whom are Syrian nationals.

"The judicial police's Morals Protection Bureau obtained information on the presence of a ring that practices and facilitates prostitution in the Brummana area,” the ISF said in a statement.

The Internal Security Forces announced on Saturday afternoon the arrest of over 20 fugitives in the northern region of Majdlaya.

"As forces continue the implementation of the security plan in the North, the regional police department managed to arrest 26 fugitives in the surroundings of the Vehicle Registration Authority in Majdlaya,” the ISF said in a released statement.

Army forces on Saturday cordoned off the al-Qobbeh area in the northern city of Tripoli after a man riding a motorcycle did not comply to a checkpoint's orders to stop.

The state-run National News Agency reported that troops fired gunshots at a person driving a motorcycle in al-Qobbeh because he did not stop when army forces ordered him to do so.

Security forces kicked off on Saturday a security campaign at the Sunday Market in the Sin el-Fil area of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.