Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah noted in an interview aired Friday that the Lebanese army has the ability to eradicate the jihadist groups that are entrenched in the outskirts of the restive northeastern border town of Arsal.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Friday blasted the Hizbullah-affiliated Resistance Brigades as “occupation brigades.”

Democratic White House candidate Hillary Clinton has said that her "heart breaks" for the family of a man from Lebanon living in Oklahoma who police say was fatally shot by his neighbor.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil asked Lebanon's mission to the United Nations to file a complaint to the Security Council about Israel's incursions in the southern towns of Ghajar and Shebaa Farms, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Bassil sent a letter to the mission in New York about Israel's violations which he said are “violating U.N. resolution 1701, the people's rights and the Lebanese sovereignty.”

Speaker Nabih Berri called for a joint meeting between the Administration and Justice Committee, the National Defense Committee and the Interior and Municipalities Committee to study a suggestion to implement administrative decentralization in the country, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Berri said the meeting will be held on Tuesday at 10:30 am and if the needed quorum was not achieved, then the committees will congregate at 11:00 am with one third of the members.

An unknown assailant tossed a hand grenade in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

The grenade exploded in the al-Fawqani street without causing any casualties, NNA added.

Media reports said on Friday that Speaker Nabih Berri and Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah have met in Beirut's southern suburb and that the meeting came after the two men's latest stances as for the election of a president, al-Liwaa daily said.

The timing of the meeting was not disclosed.

Speaker Nabih Berri said the Lebanese face a crucial stage until the year's end and must drive lessons from the regional happenings which compel them to focus on their country's interest and end the political and institutional crisis, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

“A crucial stage awaits us until the end of the year and it compels the Lebanese to prioritize an overall solution and to drive lessons from the regional happenings obligating them to turn their attention to their country's interest,” Berri told his visitors.

Hizbullah on Thursday condemned Israel's construction of roads in areas near the occupied Shebaa Farms as a “dangerous violation” of Lebanon's sovereignty.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji on Thursday inspected military units in the southern regions of Tyre and Marjeyoun and vowed that the army will confront “any Israeli attack.”