Two people were injured Sunday as a dispute erupted into gunfire at a resort in the northern coastal area of Anfeh, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Two private security guards were hurt as a dispute with young men from Arab al-Talleh escalated into gunfire at a touristic resort in Koura's Anfeh,” NNA said.

A kidnapped man was released Sunday for a ransom after a two-day abduction ordeal in Syria near Lebanon's border, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Mohammed Rifaat Yehia, who hails from the town of Maaraboun, has been released for a $50,000 ransom, two days after he was abducted by gunmen in the Syrian town of Rankous,” NNA said.

A Syrian man was released Sunday in the northeastern border town of Arsal after he was kidnapped last month, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Syrian abductee Salah Fares was freed in Arsal and handed over to the army intelligence department in Ras Baalbek,” NNA said.

Head of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad noted Sunday that political parties that are not being able to “resolve the waste management crisis” cannot ask to have a say in the country's war and peace decision.

“It is reasonable that a country in the world cannot find a solution to its garbage crisis?” asked Raad rhetorically during a speech he delivered in the southern town of Ain Qana.

Foreign intelligence agencies did not help Lebanese authorities arrest fugitive Islamist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, the General Security said on Sunday.

“All claims of a link for foreign security agencies in Asir's arrest are baseless and the operation was entirely carried out by the General Security,” agency chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim told MTV.

Security forces carried out a number of raids in the southern city of Sidon in the wake of confessions of detained Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmad al-Asir, reported the National News Agency on Sunday.

It said that a unit from the General Security intelligence branch raided at noon the area of Sirob east of Sidon following the confessions.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea praised on Sunday the security agencies for their arrest of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, deeming it a “major achievement.”

He wondered however: “How is it that Asir was arrested, despite his full disguise and fake passport, while the same agencies have failed to arrest the killers of Hashem al-Salman and Sobhi and Nadimeh Fakhri even though they never wore a disguise?”

General Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud revealed that detained Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir will be subject to a DNA test to confirm that it really is him after he had undergone a number of plastic surgery operations to alter his appearance, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

He told the daily: “I asked the state commissioner to the military court to perform the test.”

The relatives of the servicemen abducted by the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front extremist groups voiced their concern that the arrest of Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir will “negatively affect” negotiations on the captives' release, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

Hussein Youssef, father of hostage Mohammed Youssef, told the daily: “The state's announcement of Asir's arrest will negatively affect negotiations if there even are negotiations.”

A Syrian rebel group said Saturday that a rare ceasefire negotiated with Hizbullah fighters in a Syrian town and two villages was over as shelling resumed.

The 72-hour ceasefire in the northern rebel-held town of Zabadani, near the border with Lebanon, as well as in Foua and Kafraya, two Shiite villages in Idlib province, was reached earlier this week and was to last until Sunday.