Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea warned on Wednesday the parliamentary majority against ignoring the will of the majority of the Lebanese people regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

He said after holding talks with MP Fouad Saad: “The current majority’s ongoing tampering with the issue of the funding of the STL will awaken the dormant strife.”

The March 14 General Secretariat slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah’s recent positions, accusing it of acting as the sole authority on state decisions and the constitution due to its positions on the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “We will consider the government as collapsed should it reject the funding of the tribunal.”

An official Syrian daily lashed out at the Arab League Wednesday, accusing it of serving the interests of the United States and Israel after the organization urged Damascus to open up to dialogue.

"It is no longer surprising to see the Arab League, which is supposed to be concerned with joint Arab action, turn into an instrument of injustice aimed at destabilizing Syria," said the daily Ath-Thawra.

U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly has said Lebanon should be kept away from the “negative repercussions” of the situation in Syria stressing on the importance of Lebanese stability.

In remarks to al-Balad daily on Wednesday, Connelly said the U.S. agenda on Lebanon hasn’t changed. It calls for a stable, independent and sovereign Lebanon.

Activists said at least 15 civilians and seven soldiers were killed on Wednesday in the latest violence sweeping protest-hit Syria, including deadly clashes near the Lebanese border.

Syria's leading opposition grouping, the Syrian National Council, meanwhile, threatened to seek foreign intervention to stop the regime's deadly crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.

A unit from the Syrian army made a new incursion in Lebanese territories in in the area of Dawrat al-Ghazal and al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa valley, killing a Syrian man and arresting his brother, media reports said Wednesday.

The incursion took place on Tuesday as the Syrian military was chasing a group of men who escaped on motorcycles to the Lebanese side of the town of al-Douwar, they said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has met with leaders of Syria's opposition movement urging unity in pursuit of a peaceful transition in the country, a Turkish diplomat said Tuesday.

"The minister met with representatives of the Syrian opposition, for the first time, in Ankara on Monday," the diplomat told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali questioned on Tuesday criticism by some Lebanese officials that have accused his embassy of being behind the disappearance of Syrian opposition members in Lebanon.

He said after holding talks with former Prime Minister Salim Hoss: “I don’t want to dwell on the details of this dispute, but I will renew my call for some sides to reconsider their positions based on the Lebanese constitution and cooperation agreements between Lebanon and Syria.”

The daughter of a Syrian opposition member who was allegedly kidnapped in the eastern Lebanese region of Aley pleaded with Syria’s allies in Lebanon to mediate for the release of her father.

Shebli al-Aysami, 86, a co-founder of Syria's ruling Baath party, who fled his native country in 1966 over political differences, was last seen in May in Aley.

Some of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of a deal to hand over captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be taken in by Turkey, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Monday.

The agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Turkey would host some of the released prisoners along with Qatar and Egypt.