The army opened fire on Wednesday at a motorcycle in the northeastern Bekaa region of Arsal after it failed to stop at the Wadi Hmeid checkpoint, reported the National News Agency.

One passenger from the al-Hujeiri family was wounded in the shooting.

Al-Nusra Front group on Tuesday showed a video of the defected soldier Corporal Abdullah Shehadeh calling more than once for defection from the army and stressing that the government is lying to the families of the soldiers kidnapped by the group, because "Hizbullah wants to kill them."

Shehadeh said in a long video that he belongs to "a secret regiment,” announcing his defection from the Lebanese army “that is directed by 'Iranian Hezb Alat' (Hizbullah)” and that he is joining “the ranks of 'al-Mujahideen'."

U.N.'s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura met on Thursday with Prime Minister Tammam Salam and is expected to hold talks with Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil later in the day, on the other hand, he pointed out the "agreement" with Hizbullah on "a political solution" to end the war there.

“A new turn of events are controlling the region, in particular regarding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant... and the International community is deeply concerned,” De Mistura told reporters after talks with Salam at the Grand Serail.

Lebanon filed a complaint with the U.N. Security Council on Thursday over an Israeli army attack on a Lebanese military post west of the Shebaa Farms area earlier this month.

The state-run National News Agency said the complaint was made by Lebanon's mission in New York.

The families of the abducted soldiers and policemen back down on a previous warning of staging a “black day” in Beirut if no positive breakthrough happened in the case of their sons.

“We will postpone our escalatory moves,” one relative told reporters who are gathered at Riad al-Solh Square after a brief meeting with Higher Defense Council chief General Mohammed Kheir.

Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji, who has attended a meeting of senior commanders from more than 20 Western and Arab allies involved in the campaign to defeat jihadists, has sparked controversy over Lebanon's role in the coalition against the Islamic State terrorist group.

An Nahar daily quoted Qahwaji as saying at the meeting, which was held in Washington on Tuesday, that Lebanon is one of the countries most involved in combating terrorists.

Discussions over a controversial Iranian grant to the Lebanese army have been “frozen” to avoid any rift between cabinet members as the United States pressed to “delay” the matter until other arming pledges are met.

According to the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, Prime Minister Tammam Salam is stalling all discussions at cabinet meetings over the matter to prevent any crisis between its two main components Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement.

U.N. Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen expressed concern over the “risks facing Lebanon” at this stage due to the acts of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front and dormant terrorist cells that belong to Hizbullah.

Roed Larsen's fears were stated during closed-door consultations between the U.N. Security Council's 15 members.

The outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Brital on Wednesday witnessed an exchange of gunfire between Syrian gunmen and Hizbullah fighters, state-run National News Agency reported.

“The Ijr al-Harf area on the Lebanese-Syrian border has witnessed an exchange of gunfire between Syrian gunmen and a Hizbullah post,” NNA said.

Shells fired from the Syrian side of the border targeted several towns in the northern district of Akkar on Wednesday evening, in the latest such incident in recent days.

“Shells and gunshots from Syria landed in the outskirts of the Akkar towns of Hikr Janine and Qashlaq,” state-run National News Agency reported.