An Israeli spy device was found on Tuesday adjacent to a Lebanese army position to the east of the southern border town of Markaba.
The transmission and photographic device was found planted near the blue line opposite a helicopter airstrip and a Lebanese army post in the area, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) said.

Hollywood star and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie arrived in Lebanon on Monday night to mark the fifth anniversary of the eruption of the Syrian conflict.
She paid a visit on Tuesday to several Syrian refugee camps in the country, including those in the eastern Bekaa region of Saadnayel, where she gave a press conference under the pouring rain.

Head of the parliamentary media committee MP Hassan Fadlallah stressed that the illegal internet networks uncovered lately is a serious issue that must be controlled by the state, As Safir daily reported on Tuesday.
“Illegal internet networks are a dangerous issue that is growing even bigger. The State must put hands on it because it has legal financial and security repercussions” Fadlallah told the daily.

Army intelligence agents on Monday raided several houses inhabited by Syrians in the eastern suburbs of the southern city of Sidon, media reports said, a day after four individuals were arrested in Nabatiyeh on suspicion of plotting an act of sabotage.
“An intelligence force raided houses in the al-Naddaf Square in Sidon's Villas region,” al-Jadeed television reported.

Two U.S.-bound missiles that were found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia had been used as part of a U.S. military training for the Lebanese army and were being shipped back after the exercise concluded, the military said in a statement on Monday.
“The missiles were being sent from Beirut to the American company that produced them. They were in the army's possession for training purposes,” the statement said.

Protesters from the “You Stink” movement sought on Monday to block several major roads that lead to Beirut, saying their move is aimed at rejecting the landfills that will be established by the state.
Police pushed dozens of protesters to the side of the highway in Dora and in another area in Hazmieh to stop them from blocking the roads during the early morning rush hour.

The Free Patriotic Movement declared Sunday that a strong Lebanon requires “a strong president and a strong army,” as it warned against any attempt to elect a president through a non-consensual parliamentary quorum.
“Lebanon's strength lies in a strong president and a strong army … and a balanced foreign policy that achieves the country's interest,” FPM chief Jebran Bassil said, reciting clauses of the movement's new political manifesto.

Following a cabinet decision to open three landfills to remove the accumulating trash in several Lebanese areas, residents and anti-trash campaigners held sit-ins Sunday in the Naameh and Choueifat areas and declared that they would block “Beirut's entrances” on Monday morning.
“We will escalate our protests tomorrow through blocking Beirut's entrances in the morning for several hours,” civil society protesters announced from the Riad al-Solh Square, where an open-ended sit-in has been underway since Saturday evening.

A Lebanese citizen was killed and five others were injured Sunday when heavily-armed gunmen opened fire in the Ivory Coast resort town of Grand-Bassam in an attack that left at least 16 people dead.
“The attack was carried out by more than 13 militants, who arrived by sea at the targeted area and opened fire indiscriminately on the restaurants' customers, causing heavy casualties,” Lebanon's National News Agency said.

The Syrian delegation traveled on Sunday from Beirut to Geneva where it is set to participate in the second round of the upcoming peace negotiations with the opposition under UN auspices, the state-run National News Agency reported.
“The Syrian delegation headed by Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, traveled from Beirut to Geneva to participate in the meetings, which will start Monday,” NNA added.
