There was cautious calm in the northern city of Tripoli on Friday morning hours after gunmen attacked army posts, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said masked gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at the military posts in Talaat al-Omari and Haret al-Saydeh.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji is expected to tackle next week the aid granted to the Lebanese military with U.S. and Saudi officials, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the daily, Qahwaji will travel to the United States to persuade senior officials to grant the Lebanese army U.S. weapons.

Concern about economic inequality runs high in Lebanon with 84 percent of Lebanese seeing it as a major problem, the Pew Research Center reports.

Across the globe, there is widespread support for free markets. Even though many people worry about the gap between rich and poor, majorities across the globe are willing to accept some inequality to have a free market system, according to a Pew survey of nearly 49,000 people worldwide .

The army on Thursday repelled an infiltration attempt by Syrian gunmen in the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Arsal, after repulsing two attacks on its posts in the area overnight.

"The army clashed with a number of Syrian gunmen and repelled an infiltration attempt in the Arsal area of al-Masyada," state-run National News Agency reported in the evening.

After her mysterious death shocked the public opinion, investigations revealed Thursday that the toddler girl Celine Rakan had been murdered more than a week ago at the hands of the family's Ethiopian maid, who was caught red-handed by the child while stealing house items.

“The Ethiopian domestic worker confessed to the Msaitbeh police station that she strangled to death the child Celine Rakan out of fear that she might be busted, after the toddler saw her stealing items from the house,” the Internal Security Forces said in a statement, ending a week of speculation.

A “war of hostages” appears to have started between Hizbullah and Syrian rebels in the border region of Qalamun, with sources announcing that the Lebanese group has seized the bodies of dozens of militants and the Free Syrian Army publishing a video featuring a Hizbullah captive.

Syrian activists were on Thursday circulating the video, in which a Hizbullah fighter identified as Imad Ayyad urges his family to “meet the demands” of the FSA should they contact them.

The Akkar town of al-Rihaniyeh on Thursday held a funeral for army soldier Milad Mohammed Issa, who was shot dead at dawn at the hands of unknown gunmen.

“Amid great anger and grief that engulfed the villages and towns of the Akkar district, the Army Command, the Issa family and residents of the town of al-Rihaniyeh and Akkar organized a funeral for the soldier Milad Mohammed Issa after the noon prayers,” the National News Agency said.

Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Thursday eight people including a Lebanese with funding and belonging to a terrorist group.

The parliament failed again Thursday to elect a successor to former President Michel Suleiman, leaving the country's top Christian post vacant since May.

Speaker Nabih Berri has set a new session for October 29.

The parents of one of the soldiers taken captive by jihadists in August have allegedly received a phone call from an Islamic State militant giving the authorities a three-day ultimatum to meet their demands.

The father of captive Mohammed Youssef said he received the phone call from the IS fighter at 10:00 am Thursday.