The Islamic State group said it carried out a double bombing that targeted the empty residence of Iran's ambassador to Libya on Sunday.

A security official said no one was hurt in the latest attack on a diplomatic mission in Tripoli, where most embassies have been shut since summer 2014 as rival militias battle for control of the city.

An Internal Security Forces officer was injured on Thursday and a suspect killed during a raid in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

ISF Intelligence Branch Maj. Nazih Saleh was wounded when Wael Kamel Youssef, who is wanted on several arrest warrants, tossed a grenade in al-Beddawi area at dawn, it said.

Inspectors from the health department of the Tripoli municipality raided on Sunday a meat shop in the northern city where it seized a quantity of product that does not meet health standards, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the department patrol ordered the owner of the shop to adhere to health standards and rehabilitate his store within 15 days.

A person was killed and four others wounded in a multi-vehicle pileup on al-Palma road in the northern city of Tripoli towards the capital Beirut.

The horrific accident occurred between a truck and five cars, the Traffic Management Center reported.

Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi expressed on Tuesday reservations over Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's proposal to replace a slogan in Tripoli's al-Nour Square with a Quran verse.

Al-Rafehi expressed hope that the slogan wouldn't be replaced or removed, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) quoted him as saying.

Remarks voiced Sunday by firebrand al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled al-Daher about Christian statues and symbols have sparked a storm of religiously-charged controversy in the country.

The uproar started overnight Saturday, when the Internal Security Forces removed from the entrance of the northern city of Tripoli black-colored Islamic flags carrying the Muslim declaration of faith “There is No God but Allah and Mohammed is His Prophet”.

A U.S. Marine who vanished from a base in Iraq and later wound up in Lebanon is set to face trial more than a decade after the puzzling case began.

Cpl. Wassef Hassoun's court martial on desertion and other charges starts Monday at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Defense attorneys maintain that he was kidnapped in 2004 by insurgents and that later, after briefly returning to the U.S., he became tangled up in Lebanese courts for years.

A campaign to remove party banners and photos from Beirut and several cities was launched on Thursday, the result of talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement.

The governor of Beirut, Ziad Shebib, told reporters that 90 percent of political slogans and posters have already been removed.

A car bomb exploded Monday near the Tripoli headquarters of a Libya militia which controls the capital, killing one person and wounding two others, a security source said.

The attack targeted the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade militia which occupies a former security building near the center of the capital, said the source.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the criticism of Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech would not have repercussions on the fifth round of talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal despite contrary claims by Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq.

Local dailies quoted Berri as saying that “negative remarks against Nasrallah's speech won't impact the dialogue,” whose fifth round is set to take place in Ain el-Tineh on Tuesday.