The Lebanese army staged raids in Tripoli’s neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen over celebratory gunfire after an attempted coup in Turkey, the Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported Saturday.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari stated that staging the presidential elections before the parliamentary polls will automatically solve many pending issues in the country, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

“Staging the presidential elections will inevitably lead to a set of solutions for many current crises. But many complications will arise if we stage the parliamentary polls in the absence of a president,” Makari told the daily in an interview.

Even though anticipations were high that the file of Lebanon’s oil and gas wealth might witness a push-start following the Eid al-Fitr holiday, reports said that the progress seems to be staggering, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam wants to make some contacts before he convenes the ministerial committee tasked with studying the file and later put the issue on the cabinet’s agenda in order to pass the needed decrees, said the daily.

Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq announced that the World Bank has approved a $55 million loan to fight pollution in the Qaraoun Lake in Western Bekaa Valley and the Litani River in south Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

Mashnouq added that the loan will also cover the completion of the sewage networks in Zahle and the surrounding villages, Anjar and al-Marj, NNA added.

Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouq warned on Friday the law enforcement agents against abusing Syrian refugees after pictures showing some being mistreated by municipal police were posted online.

Mashnouq said in a letter to heads of municipalities that officers would face "disciplinary measures" if they abuse their power when dealing with citizens and Syrian refugees.

Nizar Zakka, a US permanent resident from Lebanon who has done work for the US government, was on Monday indicted on unknown charges in Iran along with three dual nationals.

The four were held by Iran's authorities amid a series of detentions that followed last year's nuclear deal with world powers.

Hizbullah announced overnight that it has managed to kill the Islamic State military commander for the al-Qaa border region, where eight suicide bombings killed five people and wounded 28 others earlier this week.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hailed on Saturday the reactivation of efforts with regard to Lebanon's oil and gas wealth, after a dispute over excavation between the Free Patriotic Movement and the AMAL Movement was reportedly settled a day earlier.

“It seems that the oil file which has been pending for years will finally be tackled,” said Jumblat via his Twitter account.

Hizbullah has reportedly destroyed Islamic State group positions entrenched on the outskirts of the border town of Ras Baalbek and al-Zwaytineh, al-Manar TV said on Saturday.

The TV station said that Hizbullah fighters bombarded two positions during the attack and that several were killed and wounded.

Lebanon's security apparatuses are keeping an eye of the encampments of Syrian refugees which they believe provides a shelter for Islamic State members and other terrorist groups.

Security forces have obtained information a couple of months ago which state that the Islamic State group in Syria's al-Reqqa has decided to take advantage of the fragile political situation in Lebanon, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.