State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Friday ten people with belonging to an armed group and al-Nusra Front.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the 10 men include Shadi al-Mawlawi, who was released on bail upon his arrest in the northern city of Tripoli in May last year, and another detained man.

Several Syria-bound fuel tanker trucks were torched in northern Lebanon on Friday, a day after seven such incidents took place in the same area, the state-run National News Agency and Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

VDL said Friday's attacks took place on the main road of al-Beddawi and Tripoli. But NNA's reporter denied any such incident took place on Friday.

Syria's two-year conflict and the refugee crisis that it has triggered are at real risk of exploding across the Middle East, the U.N. refugee agency warned on Friday.

"I believe that if the Syrian conflict goes on and on and on, there is a real risk of an explosion in the Middle East, and then there will be no way to cope with the challenge from the humanitarian, political and security perspective," said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel pointed out on Friday that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are keen to preserve the “historic” and “exceptional” ties with Lebanon and to welcome the expats on their territories.

“I have discussed the conditions of the Lebanese community in Saudi Arabia and UAE during talks with the two country's interior ministers,” Charbel said after a meeting with Lebanese businessmen in Riyadh.

Syria's devastating conflict entered its third year on Friday with EU leaders frustrated over the failure of diplomacy to end the bloodshed pressing to arm rebels despite Russia's objections.

The Syrian Revolution 2011 Facebook page, a key driving force behind the uprising, has called on people to take to the streets after the main weekly Muslim prayers under the rallying cry "Two years of sacrifice towards victory".

The Gulf countries have no intention to take extreme measures against the Lebanese expats on their territories, but they will not tolerate any person undermining the Gulf Cooperation Council states stability, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.

A GCC diplomat told the newspaper that the Gulf authorities will not tolerate any security threat that is a priority.

The U.N. Security Council expressed "grave concern" Thursday over cross-border attacks between Syria and Lebanon in a rare united declaration on the Syrian conflict.

The 15-member body, bitterly divided over the Syrian conflict, expressed "deep concern" over the fallout from the Syrian conflict on stability in Lebanon, in a statement released after closed talks.

Three fuel tankers with Syrian plate numbers were torched on Thursday in an old wheat market in the northern city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported.

"Seven tankers were attacked and their drivers were detained for a while before being released by the residents of (the northern area of) Bab al-Tabbaneh,” Agence France Presse elaborated.

Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International lashed out on Thursday at Greece's treatment of Syrian refugees fleeing their war-ravaged homeland, with many locked up as illegal immigrants or reportedly facing police brutality.

"There is a total lack of a humanitarian response and solidarity" in Greece towards Syrian asylum-seekers, Willem de Jonge, general director of Doctors Without Borders in Greece, told Agence France Presse on the sidelines of a press conference.

The balance of power in Syria will eventually shift to rebel forces but a protracted civil war risks destabilizing the whole region, a leading think-tank warned Thursday in its annual report on world military strengths.

Syria dominated an "increasingly complex" global security situation that also includes China's rise and a continuing increase in Asian defense spending, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said.