State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr launched an investigation into a shooting at the army in the eastern city of Baalbek, an attack that occurred again on Wednesday.

Saqr tasked security agencies and the army's intelligence with carrying out the initial investigation under his supervision and find Tuesday's shooters.

U.S. President Barack Obama stressed on Wednesday commitment to promoting Lebanon’s stability and supported the Lebanese people in their effort to form a new government as the U.S. marks 30 years since the deadly Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

In a statement on the anniversary of the attack that left 241 Americans dead in 1983, Obama condemned the “despicable act of terrorism,” which was the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S. Marine Corps since the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

A two-day parliamentary session was postponed for the sixth time on Wednesday over lack of quorum amid sharp rift between the March 14 alliance and Speaker Nabih Berri on its constitutionality.

The session was postponed to November 20.

The injury toll from Wednesday's clashes between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen rose to eight in the evening, with no sign of the fighting dying down.

“A man called Ahmed al-Basha was wounded in the al-Baqqar as gunfire was heard on the fighting frontiers of Bab al-Tabbaneh, al-Baqqar, al-Rifa and Jabal Mohsen,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Syrian authorities have released 16 women detainees as part of a weekend hostage exchange, but more than 100 others are still being held, a prominent human rights activist said Wednesday.

Nine Lebanese hostages held for 17 months by a rebel group in northern Syria were exchanged on Saturday for two Turkish pilots abducted in Beirut in August.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has warned that all Lebanese factions would hold arms and confront a possible attempt by Hizbullah to impose a change in the political system.

In an interview with Alriyadh newspaper published on Wednesday, Geagea said: “If Hizbullah considers any such a move then every Lebanese group will hold arms.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has criticized al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc, describing its leader MP Fouad Saniora's stance from a two-day parliamentary session on Wednesday as “not encouraging.”

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, Jumblat said: “Saniora's stance from the session is negative and not encouraging.”

Speaker Nabih Berri rejected on Wednesday to budge an inch on his call for a two-day parliamentary session, holding on to the agenda of the session and rejecting any pressure exerted on him to modify it.

“I presume that the legal quorum will be provided during Wednesday’s session after the Free Patriotic Movement's positive stance,” Berri said in an Interview with As Safir newspaper.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has met with Syrian President Bashar Assad to discuss the case of the bishops kidnapped by armed men in Syria in April, the state-run National News Agency reported Wednesday.

NNA did not say when the meeting took place.

Several people were wounded on Tuesday afternoon when clashes resumed in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

"Clashes are still taking place on several axes in Tripoli,” the NNA said.