The families of Lebanese nationals missing in Syria, which Syrian authorities refuse to recognize their presence in the regime's prisons, called on General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim to tackle the matter with the regime of the neighboring country.

According to a report published in An Nahar newspaper on Thursday the relatives demanded the release of the kins and the handing over of the bodies of those who were killed.

A significant number of fighters from the Syrian wing of al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra are present in Syria’s mountainous border region, and analysts said the Assad regime's continued efforts to drive rebels out of the area could push more of them into Lebanon.

The analysts told Washington Post that the move could escalate instability by significantly boosting the operational capability of the Lebanese branch of Jabhat al-Nusra.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Wednesday announced that he is against “anything that might lead to a Lebanese-Lebanese conflict” even if that prevented him from being elected as president, calling on all gunmen to withdraw from Syria.

“I reject anything that might lead to a Lebanese-Lebanese conflict, even if this rejection cost me the presidency,” Aoun said in an interview on Al-Arabiya television.

Fifteen Syrian nationals, including members of the extremist al-Nusra Front, were arrested Wednesday in the Bekaa border town of Arsal, according to state-run National News Agency.

NNA said the men were arrested at the army's Wadi al-Shaab checkpoint in Arsal for entering Lebanon with “fake identification papers.”

Protesters blocked two key roads in Beirut on Wednesday to condemn the death of the young man Hussam al-Shawwa who was hit by a bullet Tuesday during a pro-Arsal demo.

“A number of young men blocked the Sports City road with burning tires in protest at the death of the young man Hussam al-Shawwa,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Clashes in the northern city of Tripoli renewed on Wednesday between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen.

Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported that clashes erupted at Syria Street during the funeral of Omar al-Ahmed, who died of wounds he sustained during the latest round of fighting in the city.

Security forces at Tripoli prison seized on Wednesday a number of narcotic pills that were going to be delivered to an inmate in the facility, reported the National News Agency.

It said that about a hundred benzhexol pills were found hidden in the handle of a mop that was delivered to a grocery store near the prison.

The General Security announced on Wednesday that Syrian detainees it had arrested on Monday confessed to belonging to a terrorist network, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the five Syrians, who had entered Lebanon illegally, confessed to transporting a booby-trapped vehicle from Syria to Lebanon.

Four rockets struck two areas in the Bekaa region on Wednesday, causing no casualties.

Two rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt on the Lebanese-Syrian border landed in agricultural fields in the al-Aqidiyeh area near the central Bekaa town of Beit Shama, causing no casualties, state-run National News Agency reported.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly lauded on Wednesday the determination of the government to follow up closely on the issue of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the reopening of a vital road in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Following a meeting with Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, Plumbly said: “I congratulated him on his new and heavy responsibilities.”