Al-Mustaqbal bloc head MP Fouad Saniora stated on Friday that resisting terrorist operations could be achieved through avoiding the expansion of the Syrian and Iraqi turmoil into Lebanon.

"We have condemned and deplored (the recent) terrorist operations that have nothing to do with religion, ethics or with high standards and morals which the Lebanese have always held onto,” Saniora said after meeting with local delegations in the Hilaliyeh neighborhood of the southern city of Sidon.

A suggestion by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil Friday that refugee camps be set up along the country's border with Syria was swiftly rejected by Damascus's ambassador, Ali Abdul Karim Ali.

Bassil "met ambassadors from the powerful five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council today (Friday) and discussed with them the establishment of camps for Syrian refugees along the border," a ministry statement said.

A detainee confessed on Thursday to storing a number of explosives and weapons in property he owns in the northern region of Akkar, announced the Army Command in a statement on Friday.

It said that Mahmoud Khaled revealed that he hid explosives and weapons buried in the ground of the property in the town of Fnaideq.

The Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Malek al-Shaar stressed on Friday that he will not run for the Grand Mufti post but said that he will not hesitate to assume the tasks if there was consensus on him.

“I will not submit my candidacy for the post but if the rivals agreed on my nomination I will not hesitate,” Shaar said in a press conference.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani called on Friday for ending the vacuum at the presidential palace to stop further security chaos.

This "is an unnatural phenomenon, which should be stopped,” Qabbani said in his Ramadan message.

By his own account, Abu Wadih is a man very much in demand.

One look at the jumbled mass of sinewy electricity cables, TV and Internet lines that droop over the damp, narrow alleyways of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila, and it's easy to see why. Abu Wadih, as the chief electrician in Shatila, is responsible for making order out of that chaos and ensuring that the camp's more than 20,000 residents can turn on their lights and televisions.

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel was admitted to Beirut's Hotel Dieu hospital on Friday after injuring his left leg.

According to a statement issued by the hospital, Gemayel sustained a bone crack during a workout.

A previously unknown jihadist group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the Duroy Hotel suicide attack in Beirut.

The group calling itself the state of Damascus-Qalamoun said via twitter on Thursday that two ISIL members targeted General Security agents at the hotel in Raouche.

Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Helou passed away on Friday after a long battle with illness, media reports said.

The casket of Helou will move at 9:00 am on Saturday from Asharq al-Awsat Hospital in the Metn town of Bsalim to his hometown Jezzine in southern Lebanon, where the funeral will take place.

Saudi security officials are expected to visit Beirut to identify the suicide bomber who blew himself up at Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area on Wednesday, pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported.

The newspaper quoted a Saudi security official as saying on Friday that the delegation would bring with it DNA samples to confirm the identity of the bomber.