One person was killed and four people were injured in clashes between the districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported Sunday.

NNA said Ali Abdul Qader Suweid was killed at noon Sunday from sniper fire in Bab al-Tabbaneh.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi has backed off from his support for a so-called neutral government over fears that further divisions among the rival parties could affect the presidential elections, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted sources as saying.

The March 8 alliance has been calling for a government in which it would get nine ministers along with March 14 and centrists six.

Premier-designate Tammam Salam has agreed to give the cabinet formation efforts more time after warnings by Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat against the formation of a fait accompli government, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Sunday.

“We waited for nine months to reach a solution and consensus that would steer the country away from divisions on the cabinet but nothing came up from the procrastination,” the newspaper quoted Salam as saying.

The family of Saudi national Majed al-Majed, the chief of a Qaida-linked group who died Saturday in Lebanon, has submitted a request to the Saudi foreign ministry for the repatriation of his body, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Asiri announced Sunday.

"The kingdom has not asked for an autopsy," Asiri added in an interview with LBCI television.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered on Saturday handing over the human remains of suicide bomber Qutaiba al-Satem to his family in the northern city of Akkar.

MTV noted that heavy gunfire shots were heard in Tripoli as Satem's remains arrived in the northern city.

Several people were injured on Saturday as clashes took place in the northern city of Tripoli and sniper activity was registered between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.

"Seven people were wounded in Bab al-Tabbaneh and (Tripoli's) Hara Barranieh,” LBCI television reported.

The al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Saturday claimed credit for the deadly bombing in the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik.

ISIL managed to penetrate the "security system of the Party of Satan (Hizbullah)... and crush its strongholds... in a first small payment from the heavy account that is awaiting those wicked criminals," according to a statement obtained by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group.

Several northern leaders condemned on Saturday the torching of Father Ibrahim Sarrouj's historical library in the northern city of Tripoli, considering that this act does not conform to the teachings of Islam.

Hundreds of civil society members also took to the streets of Tripoli to protest the torching of a decades-old library owned by the Greek Orthodox priest.

The anti-drug bureau in the Bekaa arrested on Thursday four Lebanese and two Syrians on drug dealing charges, reported the National News Agency on Saturday.

It said that the security forces arrested in their possession an electrical captagon pill-producing machine.

The army announced on Saturday the death of Majed al-Majed, the “emir” of the al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, after the deterioration of his health.

The Army Command said in a statement that he died while he was being treated at the central military hospital.