State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Monday a Syrian detainee with offenses that could be punishable by death if convicted.

He referred the case of Hassan Mohammed Jamil Harba to Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein.

Former singer turned Islamist militant Fadel Shaker has decided to turn himself in to security agencies in the coming days, his lawyer announced on Monday.

“Fadel wants to turn himself in in the coming days,” the lawyer May Khansa, who is defending him before the Military Court, told Agence France-Presse.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun spoke Monday of “some progress” regarding the presidential crisis, without revealing details.

“The presidential vote has crossed some stages and God willing it will continue in this manner,” said Aoun after meeting Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain al-Tineh.

The death penalty has been demanded against four people in the 2013 murder of pro-Syrian regime journalist Mohammed Darrar Jammo.

Judge Mounif Barakat ordered the death sentence against his wife Siham Younes, her nephew Ali Khalil Younes, her brother Badie Mohammed Younes, and her daughter Fatima.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed the need on Monday for Lebanon to tackle its offshore oil and gas wealth, saying that tenders should be launched to that end.

He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anba website: “Lebanon should announce these tenders for it to take advantage of its wealth and preserve its rights before they are stolen wasted, or lost.”

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil highlighted on Monday the threat of terrorism on Lebanon and the Arab world, urging leaders to take action to face it.

He said: “Airstrikes against the Islamic State group were not enough to combat it, which is why the Lebanese army chose ground operations to face it.”

Economy Minister Alain Hakim hailed the renovations at the Beirut Port, stressing that the wheat silos underwent major enhancements.

“The silos have been isolated from birds and rodents,” Hakim told reporters during an inspection visit at the venue.

The Lebanese army has arrested an Australian citizen in the northern Koura district on suspicion of having ties with terrorist groups, the state-run National News Agency reported.

T.H. was apprehended by the army intelligence at his house in the area of Dahr al-Ain on Sunday night, it said.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq expressed relief on Monday over the security situation in Lebanon despite fears that he is personally threatened with an assassination bid.

“There is a chance that the security situation in the region further escalates,” Mashnouq said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, warning that Lebanon cannot endure any confrontation.

A camp for Syrian refugees that lies behind the Lebanese army's last base on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal will likely be closed by the Lebanese authorities, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

The newspaper quoted high-ranking sources as saying that the refugees will most likely be placed in different encampments in the eastern Bekaa Valley 10 to 15 kilometers from the border with Syria.