One of the "main obstacles" facing PM-designate Saad Hariri’s bid to form a new government is “Hizbullah’s demand that a ministerial seat be allocated to a Sunni deputy close to the party,” the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat daily reported on Tuesday.

Head of the Strong Lebanon parliamentary bloc, caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Monday said the minorities in Lebanon should be represented in the government, adding that his bloc demands the allocation of either the Finance Ministry or the Interior Ministry in the new Cabinet.

The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Dahler Kardel said that staging the parliamentary elections was a “great accomplishment,” as she stressed the need to “keep the specter of war away from Lebanon,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Monday held one-day, unbinding consultations with the parliamentary blocs and deputies in Nejmeh Square, kicking off his bid to form a new government.

Hariri first met with Speaker Nabih Berri, and afterwards met separately with former PM Tammam Salam and ex-PM Najib Miqati.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is set to begin lining up his government starting next week amid reports that the future Cabinet will see two new ministries added to the already 30-member assembly, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported Saturday.

“Monday will see another day in the path of the Prime Minister in charge of forming an expanded government of national unity, as described by Speaker Nabih Berri, and it will be comprised of 32 ministers to include for the first time, minority Alawite and Christian ministers,” said the daily.

Lebanon’s upcoming new government to be lined up under Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri “may adopt the format of the previous government's policy statement regarding a clause on Hizbullah’s resistance,” the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Saturday.

Quoting political sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, they said the government may adhere to the same clauses on Hizbullah’s resistance as the ones mentioned in the policy statement back in 2016.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil sent a message to his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem and UN Chief Antonio Guterres in which he expressed Lebanon's concern about the “negative repercussions” that could results of a property law issued recently in Syria, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Bassil stressed the significance of that Decree No. 10 in encouraging many displaced Syrians to return to their regions, but emphasized that “Lebanon fears that the conditions of implementation would make only quite a few of the displaced return to their areas.”

A Syrian military airport came under a “hostile missile attack” Thursday evening, Syria's state news agency SANA said.

“One of our military airports in the central region has come under a missile attack and our air defense systems have confronted the attack and prevented it from achieving its goals,” SANA quoted a Syrian military source as saying.

Saad Hariri was officially tasked Thursday with forming a new government after he garnered 111 votes in the binding parliamentary consultations, the Presidency said.

The consultations were held at the Baabda Palace from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm.

General Security Chief, Major General Abbas Ibrahim marked Resistance and Liberation Day on Thursday assuring that the fight against terrorism and the Israeli enemy “will always be a priority,” the NAtional News Agency reported.