President Michel Aoun on Tuesday announced the start of his tenure's “anti-corruption battle,” vowing to “call things by name” should the deterioration continue.

“Today we have started the anti-corruption battle. I was waiting for the post-parliamentary elections government to engage in this battle more effectively, but this should not prevent its start in light of the magnitude of the enormous corruption that we are witnessing,” Aoun said in Baabda in a meeting with a delegation from the Energy and Water Ministry.

Libyan army spokesman Ahmed al-Mesmari denounced the attack on his country’s flag in Beirut last week when AMAL Movement supporters removed Libyan flags and replaced them with the Movement’s flag, the Saudi Okaz newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The Israeli enemy resumed construction work on the border between the occupied northern territory of Palestine and south Lebanon, that prompted the Lebanese army and UNIFIL to go on alert, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat criticized on Tuesday the Lebanese Presidency’s statement about the invitation of dissident Druze cleric Sheikh Nasreddine al-Gharib to Beirut's Arab economic summit.

The remnants of a missile fired during Israel's overnight raids in Syria were found Monday in an agricultural field in the Wadi Hawsh al-Ghanam area in Lebanon's Zahle district, the Lebanese National News Agency said.

Israel struck what it said were Iranian targets in Syria early Monday in response to missile fire it blamed on Iran, sparking concerns of an escalation after a monitor reported 11 fighters killed.

The invitation of dissident Druze cleric Sheikh Nasreddine al-Gharib to Beirut's Arab economic summit has dismayed the religious leadership of the Druze community in Lebanon, which said that inviting any figure other than the community's official spiritual leader represents a “violation of protocol” and an attack on the National Pact.

Al-Gharib is backed by Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan and Arab Tawhid Party chief ex-minister Wiam Wahhab, who have rejected a 2006 law issued by Parliament and limiting the official representation of the Druze community to a single spiritual leader and to an elected confessional council.

Qatar said on Monday that it plans to invest $500 million in Lebanon government bonds, the Qatari News Agency said on Twitter on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has canceled a trip to Davos and is expected to resume talks aiming to end the government formation gridlock, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Speaker Nabih Berri voiced expectations that the government formation process is likely to take a “productive” turn after the conclusion of the Beirut economic summit, as he hailed Bassil's Sadr remarks, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Sunday thanked Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani for attending a Beirut economic summit in the absence of the vast majority of Arab leaders.