Hizbullah is experiencing a surge in recruitment as it fights alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops in Syria, members of the group have told London's Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper said that two Hizbullah members separately said there had been an increase in the number of men willing to fight in Syria.

The military tribunal issued on Monday arrest warrants against four people suspected of collaborating with al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades official Naim Abbas.
Judge Fadi Sawan issued the warrants against the suspects after questioning them, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The U.S. and Russian foreign ministers will attend French-sponsored talks in Paris Wednesday on helping Lebanon cope with the conflict in Syria, but the talks look set to be overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, France said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to come for the meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon meeting but French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday that Russia's Sergei Lavrov would also attend the conference.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour expressed pessimism on Monday over reaching consensus among the rival parties on the cabinet's policy statement, in particular regarding the army-people-resistance equation and the ongoing war in Syria.
“All sides should offer compromises in order to reach common grounds,” Abou Faour said in an interview with An Nahar newspaper.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that the resistance is a red line but was ready to make proposals to resolve the dispute on the government's policy statement on condition that the rival parties expressed readiness to agree on a solution on the resistance clause.
Several local dailies quoted Berri as saying on Monday that he would never give up on mentioning the resistance in the policy statement.

Lebanon's participation in a meeting between Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian lawmakers, ahead of a meeting for the International Parliamentary Union, is expected to create a dispute among the political arch-foes, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Monday.
According to the daily, the preparatory meeting between the four countries on March 10 in the Iranian capital, Tehran, will become a point of contention locally as it would be representing a particular international axis that contradicts the dissociation policy that the Lebanese government had adopted.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea defended President Michel Suleiman against Hizbullah's harsh rhetoric, saying the Lebanese are fed up with the party's practices, which contradict the authorities of the state institutions.
Geagea told al-Mustaqbal newspaper published on Monday that Suleiman “said what he had to say last Friday on our behalf.”

President Michel Suleiman's advisers and Hizbullah officials held contacts to ease the tension between the Baabda Palace and the party after they launched a war of words over the weekend.
According to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, Suleiman's advisers and Hizbullah officials discussed the policy statement, without citing further details.

A Tunisian man was arrested Sunday for trying to cross into Syria's Qalamoun from the Bekaa region, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
“The Lebanese Army arrested Tunisian national Bassem bin Mohammed al-Silti while he was en route from Jib Janine to Arsal on his way to Qalamoun in Syria,” NNA said.

The man who was behind sending a booby-trapped car that was seized in the Bekaa town of al-Labweh has been killed in clashes in Syria.
“Lebanese national Hasan Mohammed Ammoun and five Syrians were killed in the ongoing battles between the Syrian army and opposition in (Syria's) Yabrud,” LBCI television reported.
