Roads across Lebanon turned into swamps as Lebanon witnessed Autumn's heavy rain, causing bumper-to-bumper traffic blocking drivers in their vehicles and causing property damage.

The Civil Defense “struggled” to free those who were stuck in their vehicles.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said his contribution to form a new government went in vain and stressed that Lebanon needed a “miracle” for the international community to shoulder the costs of the Syrian war's spillover.

“We tried everything we could. We were (condemned to) hard labor and made in vain many proposals to form the government,” Jumblat told As Safir daily in remarks published on Wednesday.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel expressed relief on Wednesday for the success of the security forces deployment in Beirut's southern suburbs.

“We perceived a good political and security reaction. The important thing is that the security plan works out and achieves security in the area,” Charbel said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Speaker Nabih Berri ruled out on Wednesday that President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam would seek to form a cabinet that would be divided equally between the political foes.

“If a de facto cabinet was formed then the resumption of the dialogue and any possible solutions to the current crises will be blocked,” Berri said in comments published in local newspapers.

President Michel Suleiman said Tuesday that Lebanon was struggling under the weight of at least a million Syrian refugees as the U.S. pledged tens of millions of dollars in aid to offset the costs of the war spillover.

Suleiman spoke of the crisis in his address to world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Hours earlier, he met with President Barack Obama, who praised Lebanon for its generosity in welcoming refugees fleeing the crisis in neighboring Syria.

The United States has approved $8.7 million in military assistance focused on increasing the Lebanese Armed Forces’ ability to "monitor, secure, and protect Lebanon’s borders against terrorist threats and the illicit transfer of goods," the White House announced on Tuesday.

The U.S. also donated more than $74 million to help Lebanon cope with the growing refugee crisis.

Al-Manar television revealed on Tuesday new clues in the investigation of Beirut's southern suburbs bombing on August 15.

The deadly car explosion killed at least 22 people and wounded 325 others in Beirut's Rweiss neighborhood.

President Michel Suleiman on Tuesday told U.S. President Barack Obama that “the international community and the United States must offer support in order to secure the success of the meeting of the international support group for Lebanon and to help the country cope with the burden of the Syrian refugee influx," state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, Obama voiced support for Lebanon's sovereignty and independence, lauding Suleiman's “efforts” and reiterating Washington's “rejection of Hizbullah's intervention in Syria.”

A shortfall of funding from the world community means that only a small minority of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon will attend school this year, U.N. agencies said Tuesday.

U.N. Children's Fund representative Annamaria Laurini said only 68,000 Syrian children can be covered by U.N.-supported education programs because of funding gaps.

Bahrain's foreign minister on Tuesday lashed out at Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, calling him a "criminal" with no right to criticize the kingdom over its treatment of its Shiite opposition.

"The people of Bahrain are above being addressed by a criminal whose hands are stained by the blood of innocents in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq," Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid al-Khalifa wrote on Twitter.