Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb said on Thursday that the municipal elections have shown the people's yearning to practice their democratic right through elections and warned against staging the parliamentary elections before the election of a president.

“Staging the parliamentary elections before the presidential ones will push Lebanon towards an undefined adventure,” said Harb in a press conference.

The General Security announced on Thursday the arrest of a Syrian national on charges of belonging to a terror group after providing his accomplices with arms and logistical support.

“Based on the General Prosecutor's request, and within the framework of follow-up activities of terror groups and their sleeper cells, the General Security arrested Syrian M.M. for his affiliation to a terror group,” said the the General Security Directorate in a statement.

The Lebanese army killed an Islamic State group militant and arrested three others in Khirbet Daoud in Akkar, media reports said on Thursday.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri replied to the statements of Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea, stating that the latter and Hizbullah have obstructed his initiative to end the presidential vacuum.

“Just a reminder. The first person to nominate you for the presidential post was I,” said Hariri via Twitter addressing Geagea who made the statements in an interview on MTV on Wednesday.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea announced Wednesday that the LF and the Free Patriotic Movement faced a “major war” from all parties in the latest municipal polls, noting that both al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah are against the LF-FPM rapprochement.

The U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon probing the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri announced Tuesday that the in absentia trial of five Hizbullah operatives will continue “pending the receipt of further information from the government of Lebanon regarding the death of the Accused Mustafa Amine Badreddine.”

A student was hospitalized on Wednesday after being beaten by a school principal in the northern city of Tripoli, reported MTV.

Mahmoud Merhi, 15, was beaten by the principal and later thrown down the stairs by the principal after he was involved in a fight with his son, said the victim's friend, who was at the scene.

The joint parliamentary committees continued on Wednesday their discussions on the electoral draft-laws, with lawmakers describing the talks as “the most serious to date.”

The talks mainly focused on the hybrid and proportional representation draft-laws.

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi ruled out on Wednesday that the Syrian refugees and Palestinians will be resettled in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency said.

Grandi's comments came after a meeting he held with Labor Minister Sejaan Qazzi in Geneva where he is taking part in the International Labor Conference.

Lebanese police have arrested a prominent lawyer after he accused government officials of possible complicity in a sex trafficking ring broken up in March, Human Rights Watch said.

Police detained Nabil al-Halabi in a dawn raid on his home on Sunday after Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouq and a senior adviser filed separate suits for libel and slander of a public official, both criminal rather than civil offences in Lebanon.