Caretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour might meet with al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri in southern France before attending a refugee conference in Geneva.

Al-Joumhouria newspaper said Tuesday that Abou Faour, who has been tasked by Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat to negotiate on the cabinet formation process, could meet Hariri in Nice to discuss the process with him.

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Sunday told a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo that opposing military intervention in Syria encourages the Damascus regime to "pursue its crimes."

"Opposition to international action only encourages the regime to pursue its crimes," the Saudi foreign minister told the Arab League meeting on the Syria crisis.

Unknown attackers tried to set fire to a religious police center west of the Saudi capital Riyadh in an "intentional" attack, causing no casualties, local media reported on Sunday.

The notorious body, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is charged with ensuring compliance with the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic morality, but is often accused of abuses.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel ruled out that Lebanon would suffer from the repercussions of a possible U.S. military strike on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“There are no fears on Lebanon from the consequences of a military strike that the international community could carry out on Syria,” Charbel told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper published on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri condemned Hizbullah members' searching of a Saudi Embassy car on Thursday, saying that such a development leaves a “negative impression” before the public, reported An Nahar daily on Saturday.

He told the daily: “No side has the right to perform the duties of the state.”

The Saudi Embassy in Lebanon objected on Friday to Hizbullah's searching of one of its vehicles in Beirut, reported LBCI television.

It said that it filed the complaint to the Foreign Ministry after members of the party stopped an embassy vehicle in the Gallery Semaan area near Beirut's southern suburbs.

Saudi Arabia has adopted a law criminalizing domestic violence, usually targeting women and children, in a move hailed by activists who on Thursday demanded its swift implementation.

The law, approved by the cabinet on Monday, is aimed at protecting people from "all forms of abuse" and offering them shelter as well as "social, psychological, and medical aid," according to its text.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met Wednesday for talks on Syria with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, as the West weighs possible military strikes against Damascus.

The ministers discussed "developments on the Syrian arena," state news agency SPA reported, without giving further details.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday called for "firm and serious" action against the Syrian regime for its alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus on August 21, as Washington weighed military action.

"The situation calls for a firm and serious attitude to put an end to the human tragedy of the Syrian people," said Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, charging the regime had "lost its Arab identity".

The Saudi government on Monday urged the U.N. Security Council to take "deterrent" action against the Syrian regime's "massacres" and its alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people.

The call comes amid high-level consultations in Western capitals on an international response to last week's suspected chemical weapons attack outside Damascus.