Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat emphasized that the rights of the Christian community are not marginalized as some officials claim but that the latter are “marginalizing themselves” because of their “stubbornness and adamant conditions”, As Safir daily reported on Wednesday.

“Allow me please...I object to this whole equation. What is true is that self marginalization is brought about by some Christian component because of its stubbornness and insistence on certain conditions,” said Jumblat to the daily.

Hizbullah has initiated efforts to mend the rift that emerged recently between its two allies, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Marada Movement, and has therefore dispatched Wafik Safa, the person responsible for the Liaison Committee and coordination in the party, to Rabieh for talks with the FPM leader Jebran Bassil, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

The party began endeavors to contain the “aggravating” FPM-Marada tension, as well as to renovate the internal party's ranks and address its alliances mainly that the tension between the allies is threatening these coalitions with further rifts, added the daily.

Speaker Nabih Berri refrained from setting a date for a new national dialogue session after the Free Patriotic Movement vowed during Monday's meeting that it would boycott the all-party talks, media reports said.

Singer turned salafist Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, has requested the security apparatuses to facilitate his travel to Qatar, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

“Repentant singer and fugitive Fadel Shaker has asked the security agencies (in Lebanon) to facilitate his travel to Qatar,” reported the daily.

A Syrian man killed his younger sister after she was absent from her parent's house in Tyre, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

An 18-year old man A.M. stabbed his sister R.M., 16, to death after she left her parent's home in the neighborhood of Qadmous-Jwar al-Nakhil north of Tyre, added NNA.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said his movement will decide the steps it plans to take depending on the outcome of the national dialogue session and the discussions on the perception of the national pact, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

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.