An Israeli infantry unit combed on Tuesday the border line near several villages in southern Lebanon, hours after firing flare bombs over al-Wazzani river at dawn.

The state-run National News Agency reported that three military vehicles arrived at the technical fence as soldiers moved near the Wazzani river after firing flare bombs and inspecting the area.

Servicemen taken hostage by the al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front are expected to be released within 10 days after negotiations with the group reached a breakthrough, al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“Negotiations passed a long way and reached an advanced level,” a concerned source told the daily.

The alleged spiritual leader of Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen has been reportedly buried in Hizbullah's stronghold of Beirut's southern suburbs.

Sheikh Abdul Malek al-Shami was laid to rest on Monday near the grave of Hizbullah's military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a 2008 car bomb blast in the Syrian capital Damascus.

The Internal Security Forces Information Bureau nailed a new achievement by detaining a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by mere coincidence, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday.

According to the daily, Syrian national Turki Qalfoun was arrested at an army checkpoint in the eastern Bekaa Valley for lacking the necessary identification papers and was handed over to Baalbek's police station, which in turn referred him to the information bureau for investigation.

Lebanese businessmen in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are planning to visit Gulf countries to announce their support for the Saudi-led coalition against Huthi rebels in Yemen, al-Liwaa daily reported on Tuesday.

The tour of the Lebanese expatriates is aimed at throwing their weight behind the decision of Saudi King Salman last month to carry out air strikes against the Shiite rebels to defend Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi's government, said the report.

Hizbullah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem directed a barrage of criticism at Saudi Arabia on Monday, accusing the kingdom of committing genocide with its airstrike campaign targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels and warning it will "pay a heavy price" for its involvement.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Qassem, said Saudi Arabia made a "strategic mistake" by interfering in Yemen's internal affairs.

The case of the servicemen held hostage by extremist groups in Arsal's outskirts will go through a “decisive week,” media reports said on Monday, amid the presence in Turkey of General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, Lebanon's top negotiator.

“Positive developments prompted Ibrahim to head to Turkey where he has spent a day and a night, during which he held talks with Turkish and Qatari officials on the case of the abductees,” al-Manar television reported.

The U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced Monday that it has appointed Lebanese national Wajed Ramadan as its new spokesperson, succeeding the Egyptian Canadian Marten Youssef.

“Ramadan joined the tribunal in September 2009 and established the STL’s Outreach Office in Lebanon,” the court said in statement.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri discussed with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani the importance of unity against Huthi rebels in Yemen.

“The one-hour meeting (in Doha) tackled the latest developments in the region,” said a statement issued by Hariri's press office.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to make a televised speech on Friday afternoon.

The speech will be made during a rally in solidarity with “the brave Yemeni people and condemnation of the Saudi-American offensive” against their country, announced the party in a statement.