Lebanese Forces Leader Samir Geagea stated on Wednesday that appointing a new army commander is the best solution to the controversial issue of extending the tenure of military chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji, and accused Hizbullah party of taking unilateral strategic decisions, the As-Safir daily reported.

“Hizbullah party takes unilateral strategic decisions, which they later burden us with and ask for a cover through a political cabinet,” said Geagea.

A year after an anti-Israeli bus bombing killed six people, Bulgaria is struggling to identify the attacker or confirm his suspected links to Hizbullah or Iran.

The July 18, 2012, bombing at Bulgaria's Black Sea Burgas airport was the deadliest attack on Israelis abroad since 2004 and the first in a EU member state.

Iran's president-elect has sent messages to Syria's Bashar Assad and Hizbullah, reaffirming support for the two allies.

The official IRNA news agency on Tuesday cited Hassan Rowhani as saying close Iranian-Syrian ties will be able to confront "enemies in the region, especially the Zionist regime," or Israel.

President Michel Suleiman said on Tuesday that he hopes he will be able to call for a national dialogue session “soon” to discuss the defense strategy and find solutions to the current political crises.

“Launching serious and all-encompassing dialogue sessions and supporting the state are among the Lebanese people's goals. This dream can come true if wills and capabilities were united,” Suleiman said at an Iftar banquet in Baabda Palace.

Security forces on Tuesday managed to arrest an inmate who had escaped Monday from the Roumieh prison, where he was spending a jail term over several crimes, including identity fraud.

“Following a surveillance operation, the Judicial Police's regional anti-drug bureau in the Bekaa managed to arrest Lebanese prison escapee Abdullah Ahmed al-Hshimi, 30, on the al-Karak-Zahle public road at 5:30 p.m., after he escaped on Monday from the convicts' building of the central Roumieh prison,” the Internal Security Forces said in a statement.

Lebanon's ambassador to the United Nations Nawaf Salam warned on Tuesday that the number of Syrian refugees fleeing the war-torn country and coming to Lebanon could surpass one million by the end of 2013.

"The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is expected to reach 1,229,000 by the end of this year,” Salam stated at a U.N. Security Council session dedicated to discuss the neighboring country's crisis.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday noted that the new cabinet will not be formed anytime soon due to conditions and counter-conditions as well as foreign dictates, warning that the extremist al-Nusra Front has started infiltrating the country from neighboring Syria.

“I don't know who will the cabinet consist of if it will not represent the political parties. They are also speaking of a rotation of portfolios and this is shameful, that's why we realized that no one wants the cabinet to be formed and let the Lebanese act accordingly,” Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc on Tuesday reiterated its calls for forming a non-partisan cabinet, stressing that “political problems” can be solved in national dialogue sessions.

"Problems facing Lebanon like security-related issues and the pressures caused by the (Syrian) refugees' presence necessitate a non-partisan cabinet that is highly qualified to deal with all the citizens' worries,” the lawmakers stated in a released statement after the bloc's weekly meeting at the Center House.

A bomb hit a Hizbullah convoy traveling towards the Lebanese border crossing with Syria, wounding two people, a security source said on Tuesday.

One vehicle was struck by the explosion near the Masnaa border crossing, the source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Lebanese citizen Rabih A., 39, who hails from the Akkar town of Hrar, was found wounded at the square of the Aley town of Baisour with his penis cut off, state-run National News Agency reported.

Lebanese Red Cross medics rushed the man to the West Shahhar Hospital with life-threatening injuries, NNA said.