Palestinian factions on Monday handed over to the Lebanese army three suspects accused of involvement in a shooting incident at the Mieh Mieh refugee camp, an army statement said.

Electricite Du Liban contract workers staged sit-ins on Monday in various Lebanese regions pushing a longstanding demand for their full-time employment, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Protesting contract employees in the southern city of Tyre staged a protest inside the company's headquarters. Meanwhile around 5 staff members continued their work normally, NNA said.

Municipal chief of the restive northeastern border town of Arsal Bassel al-Hujeiri said on Monday that the municipal police and residents of the town will make sure that a curfew decision on Syrian refugees that will kick off tonight is well respected.

The army on Sunday managed to arrest the “private doctor” of the so-called “emir” of the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front in the Syria-Lebanon border region, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.

Thomas Sutherland, a teacher was held captive in Lebanon for more than six years until he was freed in 1991 and returned home to become professor emeritus at Colorado State University, has died.

The lawyer of a dual British-Australian national indicted in a botched attempt to kidnap two Australian-Lebanese children at the center of a custody battle has said that a travel ban imposed on his client has been lifted.

Two militants from the group of detained Islamist cleric Ahmed al-Asir turned themselves in to the army at dawn at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, a media report said on Sunday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on the country's politicians to strike a political “settlement” aimed at ending Lebanon's protracting presidential vacuum, which has been running since May 2014.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam is expected to face a difficult situation during Monday's Arab Summit in Mauritania should there be a vote over a clause labeling Hizbullah as a “terrorist organization.”

The Arab Summit that will kick off in Mauritania on Monday might represent a chance for Prime Minister Tammam Salam to meet with some Arab leaders, although he has not scheduled any bilateral meetings, a media report said on Sunday.