Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed on Sunday that declaring Hizbullah as a terrorist group at the Arab League was “unacceptable,” pointing out that Lebanon has already expressed reservation on that labeling.

In an interview to the Kuwaiti al-Rai daily Bassil said: “Describing the party as terrorist does not comply with the Arab treaty to combat terrorism.”

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Saturday that the Arab League’s branding of Hizbullah as a terrorist group was “shameful” and “absurd.”

“The latest decision taken by the Arab League on Hizbullah is absurd,” said Muallem at a news conference he held in Damascus.

Arab League foreign ministers on Friday declared Hizbullah a "terrorist" group, days after Arab interior ministers and the Gulf Cooperation Council issued similar resolutions.

Nearly all members of the pan-Arab body supported the decision, but not Lebanon and Iraq which expressed "reservations", the bloc said in a statement read out at a news conference by Bahraini diplomat Wahid Mubarak Sayar.

Tens of thousands of documents that were leaked Wednesday containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State militants included the names of two Lebanese engineers who planned to carry out suicide attacks, LBCI reported on Friday.

Engineer graduates Abou Khattab al-Tamimi (1988) from the Bekaa area of Bouwerij and Abou Shadi al-Lebnani (1982) from the town of Qaraoun were listed among the names of 122 IS suicide attackers.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Friday that the stalled presidential elections are ready to be held at the current stage and assured that Saudi Arabia will not abandon Lebanon, An Nahar daily reported.

“The presidential fruit is mature and ripe for picking after all the delay,” he told the daily.

One soldier and five extremists were killed on Thursday as the Lebanese army launched a preemptive strike against jihadists from the Islamic State group on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.

An army statement identified the slain soldier as Mohammed Hussam al-Sayyed al-Sabsabi, saying the 23-year-old hailed from the Akkar town of Bebnin. Four soldiers were also lightly injured in the operation, according to Army chief General Jean Qahwaji.

The dead bodies of two Kuwaiti citizens were found Thursday in a room attached to a restaurant they own in the area of Kahale, just outside Beirut, state-run National News Agency reported.

“The two were found killed in the workers' room of the Laredo Restaurant that they own in the Kahale area,” NNA said.

Days following a scandalous report published on CNN showing Lebanon's river of trash flowing through the streets of the nation, the issue has once again made it to the pages of foreign magazines including French the Courrier International and Canadian Journal De Montreal touching on the government's inability to handle this file.

The Journal de Montréal, a daily tabloid newspaper, published a long article on the trash management crisis accompanied with a mock video Rise Above Lebanon's Political garbage commissioned by the You Stink Lebanese protest movement showing mountains of rubbish across the country.

The Gulf Cooperation Council on Wednesday discussed measures aimed at “confronting Hizbullah” as Prime Minister Tammam Salam held talks with the ambassadors of the Gulf states.

“The council of GCC foreign ministers discussed the measures that must be taken to confront Hizbullah,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced after a council meeting in Riyadh.

Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb stressed on Wednesday that investigations will continue to uncover the perpetrators behind installing illegal internet networks in several areas around Lebanon, As Safir daily reported.

“The probe will continue until the details on the violating companies and their owners are uncovered,” Harb told the daily in an interview.