The Lebanese army said on Thursday that it has arrested five individuals in the northern city of Tripoli's al-Beddawi area.

A military communique stated that during a raid on a sawmill and a grocery shop on Wednesday night, an army patrol apprehended two suspicious men.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement slammed on Thursday Hizbullah, accusing it of prioritizing its subordination to the Islamic Republic of Iran over the Arab identity and Lebanese interests.

The statement that was published in al-Mustaqbal newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Sunni party, lashed out at Hizbullah, stressing that the party's allegations against al-Mustaqbal movement is merely a new attempt to impose the developments in Yemen on Lebanon.

The Lebanese army clashed at dawn Thursday with al-Nusra Front fighters on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency said.

The intermittent gunbattles took place on the western side of Asal al-Wared, said NNA.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim told Palestinian factions and officials form the Palestinian joint security force that it was important to preserve the security of the southern camp of Ain el-Hilweh, sources said.

“The security of the camp is part of the security of Lebanon and Arabs,” Ibrahim said during a meeting he held with the two sides on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian sources.

Prominent leaders affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) reportedly retreated from the northeastern border town of Arsal to Syria's Riqqa.

According to the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat published on Thursday, ISIL's command decided to limit its presence in Arsal and its outskirts to 200 fighters and a single leader, spiritual judge Abou Balqis.

After the UAE expelled more than 70 Lebanese citizens in March, Saudi Arabia is contemplating the deportation of hundreds of Lebanese expats amid a heated row with Hizbullah over the Riyadh-led military operation in Yemen.

According to information obtained by Naharnet, Saudi authorities are assessing the situations of around 400 Lebanese nationals who might be deported soon from the kingdom.

The war of words flared up anew on Wednesday between al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah, with the latter slamming its rival as a subservient to “the Saudi regime.”

“Al-Mustaqbal movement's attachment to the Saudi leadership and its efforts to satisfy it and defend it will not make us remain silent over an aggression of this magnitude against a brotherly Arab Muslim people” in Yemen, Hizbullah's media department said in a statement, a day after the two parties held their tenth dialogue session.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged two detainees with belonging to the Islamic State group, reported the National News Agency on Wednesday.

It said that Nabil al-Siddiq, also known as Abi Sayyaf, and Ali Ayyoub were charged with belonging to the group and forming cells for the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks.

Contract workers of Electricite du Liban scuffled with members of the Internal Security Forces after they tried to force the employees to reopen the doors of the facility in the village of Mazboud in Mount Lebanon's Iqlim al-Kharroub region.

A person was injured in the brawl, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour annulled on Wednesday the contracts of six health centers throughout Lebanon for failing to meet the requirements of the primary care program, reported the National News Agency.

The centers were ordered to improve their conditions and the contracts may be restored if they meet the needed requirements.