Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel confirmed on Tuesday reports concerning the sighting of a suspicious drone over the residence of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in Maarab.

“The matter is not a joke... It's serious according to reports and it was seen with naked eye,” Charbel said in comments to Free Lebanon radio.

An Israeli bulldozer crossed on Tuesday the technical fence off the southern town of Rmeish under the protection of a military unit, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The bulldozer was to carry out scraping activities near the U.N.-drawn Blue Line, NNA said.

A money-changer was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday by gunmen in al-Baddawi region in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Thieves reportedly stole 30 million Syrian pound and $600,000 from Bassam Samih al-Ayyoubi at 7:00 a.m.

The United States condemned “in the strongest terms possible” the recent terrorist bombings that targeted the northeastern town of Hermel and Shwaifat, south of Beirut.

“We extend our deepest condolences to the victims and their families. It is reprehensible that the people of Lebanon have once again been subjected to these acts of terrorism,” said State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.

A two-hour meeting held between President Michel Suleiman and Premier-designate Tammam Salam on Monday signaled that the formation of the new government was imminent despite the alleged insistence of the Free Patriotic Movement to hold onto the energy and telecommunications portfolios.

Suleiman and Salam discussed the ministerial portfolios and ways to choose the names of new ministers in a 24-member cabinet based on the 8-8-8 formula, media reports said Tuesday.

Security Forces are mulling ways to confront an expected mass jailbreak by Islamists in Roumieh prison's bloc B, media reports said on Tuesday.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper, Islamists in the Roumieh could easily breakout of the facility due to its fragile infrastructure.

Political officials on Monday called for boosting cooperation among security agencies, in the wake of the suicide bombing that hit a passenger van in the Shwaifat area, the second bomb attack to rock Lebanon in three days.

President Michel Suleiman asked military, security and judicial authorities to “be strict in pursuing the instigators and perpetrators of the bombings that are taking place on Lebanese soil, in order to arrest them and refer them to the relevant judicial authorities.”

A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday inside a passenger van in the Shwaifat area, south of Beirut, leaving two people wounded, including the minibus driver.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said a suicide bomber entered the passenger van minutes before the explosion.

President Michel Suleiman stated that a new round of consultations to form a government kicked off on Monday, hinting that a new cabinet may be formed in the next two days.

He added: “Lebanon can no longer remain without a government given the difficult circumstances it is passing through.”

The Phalange Party stressed Monday the need for “an urgent political plan” and an “inclusive and competent cabinet” in light of the dangerous “security exposure” in the country that might deteriorate into a state of “Iraqization.”

“The security exposure that threatens to descend into a dangerous Iraqization represents an essential factor that must push us to voluntarily, collectively and consensually endorse an urgent political plan under which an inclusive and competent cabinet would be formed,” the party's political bureau said after its weekly meeting.