Assassination threats against Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat emerged lately and the security measures were upped around his place of residence in Beirut, ministerial sources told Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

“The security team of head of the Democratic Gathering bloc leader Jumblat has intensified the measures near his place of residence in Beirut after reports that his name is on a list of assassinations to be carried out by the Islamic State group,” the source told the daily.

Lebanon on Friday indicted two Syrian intelligence officers it accused of involvement in a deadly 2013 double bomb blast in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Judge Alaa al-Khatib, the judicial investigator into the 2013 bombings of al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques in Tripoli, issued the indictment.

The Free Patriotic Movement has reportedly set conditions for its participation in the cabinet meetings and demanded the nullification of the term extension of Higher Defense Council chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kheir and the appointment of a new Army Commander to succeed General Jean Qahwaji, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

The alleged demands of the movement show that one way to a solution for Lebanon's political impasse is deadlocked, added the daily.

A Lebanese emigrant was shot dead in the South African city of Johannesburg, reports said on Thursday.

Ahmed Hashem Abou Draa was shot and killed by an unknown assailant who tried to rob him, reports added.

Lebanese and foreign security agencies obtained information that some Lebanese officials are a target of an assassinations plan and that the scheme includes figures from the March 8 alliance, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily reported on Thursday.

The alleged plan does not include political figures of the March 14 alliance this time, said the daily, but is limited to figures of March 8 and it includes Speaker Nabih Berri, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, former minister Wiam Wahhab and Maj. Gen. Jamil al-Sayyed.

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon is expected to arrive in Beirut on Thursday to assess the arrangements made by Lebanon as for the implementation of the U.S. financial sanctions against Hizbullah and other laws dedicated to eradicating the resources of “terrorist organizations”, as described by the U.S. administration, in Lebanon and the region, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

Well-informed sources told the daily that Shannon will also hold meetings with Speaker Nabih Berri, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, the economist adviser at the Presidency in charge of follow-up on the actions of “the international community to help Lebanon” on behalf of Prime Minister Tammam Salam, the Central Bank Governor, members of the Association of Banks and will visit the Defense Ministry, added the daily.

A “coordination and supervision commission” will be tasked with helping authorities and municipalities prepare for the decentralization of the waste management process, the Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee said on Wednesday.

A bomb blast killed a Syrian woman and wounded at least eight other people in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, the state-owned National News Agency reported.

Political circles are looking forward to see what will Speaker Nabih Berri state during a ceremony that will mark the 38th disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions, as expectations rise that his address will have an echo at the political situation prevailing in Lebanon, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

Berri will deliver his speech at a ceremony hosted by the AMAL movement in the southern city of Tyre on the occasion. The Speaker is expected to deliver several regional and local positions that observers believe will have a significant impact.

Minor skirmishes erupted at dawn on Tuesday in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh, but no casualties weer reported, the National News Agency reported.

An unknown assailant randomly opened gunfire inside the vegetable market which led to material damages to cars and stores, NNA said.