The Lebanese Army Intelligence is currently pursuing a highly dangerous terrorist cell on Lebanese territories, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday.

A security source told the newspaper that the extremist network will be revealed soon.

Hizbullah failed again to convince its ally Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to give up his demand for keeping the energy and telecommunications portfolios as part of his share in the new government.

Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad visited President Michel Suleiman in Baabda Palace on Thursday. The adviser of the party's leader Hussein Khalil also visited Premier-designate Tammam Salam.

LBCI television on Thursday broadcast a video showing the movements of the booby-trapped Kia that was blown up by a suicide bomber in Haret Hreik.

The car moved forward from Shatila towards the airport road before entering Ghobairi and Haret Hreik, LBCI said.

The Lebanese Army on Thursday clashed with gunmen who were trying to infiltrate Lebanon from Syria through the Masharii al-Qaa border area.

"At 5:30 p.m., the Lebanese Army thwarted at attempt by an armed group to infiltrate Lebanon from Syrian territory," Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

A Lebanese man and his two daughters were gunned down in mysterious circumstances in the U.S. state of Texas, media reports said on Thursday.

Rouhad Ezzeddine, who is in his forties, was found shot to death along with his two daughters Zainab and Leila at their house in Texas.

With three bomb attacks in January alone, Lebanese are getting used to reassuring loved ones at home and abroad that they have survived. And now there's an app for that.

"I am Alive," is the somewhat macabre brainchild of 26-year-old Sandra Hassan, a Lebanese masters student living in Paris.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc on Thursday stressed that “an all-inclusive, political cabinet” is the constitutional basis for returning to dialogue among the country's components, urging “our partners in the country” to reevaluate their “choices.”

Commenting on the cabinet formation process, the bloc said: “We hope things will reach a happy ending in order to relaunch the work of institutions, accomplish the constitutional junctures and immunize the country against takfiri and Zionist terrorism.”

The body of a Progressive Socialist Party official was found on Thursday in the Mount Lebanon town of Aley, the state-run National News Agency reported.

"The body of Sami Marroush was found inside his car in the Aley area of Ras al-Jabal,” the NNA detailed, noting that he was a former official of internal affairs in the party.

Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblat vowed on Thursday to close al-Naameh landfill, urging protesters in the coastal Shouf city to reopen the roads in the area.

"We pledge to close the Naameh landfill for good the moment the extended contract ends on January 17, 2015 and we vow that we will not allow any new extension of ownership of the plummet to take place,” Jumblat said in a releases statement, pointing out to the “unprecedented dangerous environmental situation in the surroundings of the landfill that was caused by the continuous extension of the contract.”

President Michel Suleiman said Thursday that distancing Lebanon from the Syrian crisis comes through the immediate end to interference in all of the neighboring country's internal affairs.

In a statement issued by Baabda Palace, Suleiman held onto the official policy of dissociation from the Syrian war.