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Suleiman Says Some Statements on Syria Don't Reflect Lebanon Official Stance

President Michel Suleiman on Friday warned that Lebanon can no longer cope with the burden of Syrian refugees, stressing that some statements on the Syrian crisis do not reflect the Lebanese official stance.

During a meeting with the ambassadors of the U.N. Security Council member states, Suleiman rejected "any foreign military intervention in Syria and any Lebanese intervention in the Syrian crisis."

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Saudi Mufti Calls for Putting an End to Hizbullah 'Aggression' in Syria

Saudi Arabia's top cleric urged governments and fellow clerics across the Muslim world to punish Hizbullah for its intervention in the Syrian civil war against the mainly Sunni rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad.

Grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Shaikh said Hizbullah's actions vindicated the Sunni-dominated kingdom's long suspicion of the group and its alliance with Shiite Iran.

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Mansour to Arabs: Hizbullah Did a Preemptive Act in Qusayr, Vengeance Can't Pull Syria Out of Crisis

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Wednesday announced from Cairo that pulling Syrian out of its crisis can only be done through political dialogue, describing Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria's Qusayr as a “preemptive act.”

“Only weeks after the eruption of the clashes (in Syria), groups that came from beyond the border -- carrying destructive, Takfiri and extremist ideologies – started threatening Lebanon,” Mansour told an extraordinary meeting of the council of Arab foreign ministers.

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Netanyahu: Israel to Exert Utmost Effort to Prevent Delivery of Advanced Arms to Hizbullah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday stressed that Israel will “exert utmost effort” to prevent the delivery of “advanced arms” to Hizbullah from Syria.

“Israel will continue to exert utmost effort to present the delivery of advances arms to Hizbullah, Hamas and other terrorist groups,” Netanyahu said in a speech at the Israeli Knesset.

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Bulgaria Says 'Circumstantial' Burgas Evidence Not Enough for EU to Label Hizbullah 'Terrorist'

Bulgaria's new foreign minister said Wednesday that evidence Hizbullah was behind a bomb attack last July on its soil that killed five Israelis was "circumstantial" and "not categorical" at this stage.

The minister, Kristian Vigenin, said that as a result, Sofia would not back the European Union labeling the Lebanese organization's military wing a "terrorist" entity without proof from other cases.

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Hizbullah: Qusayr's Achievement a Severe Blow to American-Israeli-Takfiri Scheme

Hizbullah stated on Wednesday that the party's “achievement” in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr dealt a “severe blow to the American-Israeli-Takfiri scheme.”

"The withdrawal of the opposition's fighters from al-Qusayr is a knockdown to the scheme of the United States, Israel and the Takfiris,” the party's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem expressed after a meeting with Syrian Social National Party Vice President Toufiq Mhanna.

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Bahrain Moves to Take Measures against 'Hizbullah Interests'

Bahrain on Wednesday launched investigations and started gathering information about “Hizbullah's interests” in the kingdom ahead of taking “measures” against them.

Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashed bin Abdullah al-Khalifa has “directed security bodies to probe possible Hizbullah activity in the Kingdom of Bahrain, including financial investments, commercial and economic activity, operations disguised as charity, bank accounts, money transfers and individual members of the organization, to take the required legal procedures,” said a statement carried by Bahrain's state news agency.

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White House Condemns 'Nasrallah's Game in Syria' as FSA Threatens of Move Battle to Lebanon

The White House on Tuesday condemned Hizbullah's involvement in Syria's war, expressing that the party's leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is “playing a dangerous game,” as the Free Syrian Army threatened to move the battle to Lebanon.

"We are deeply concerned by the continued fighting in (the Syrian border town of) al-Qusayr and condemn the indiscriminate killing of civilians by Assad's forces and his proxies, including Hizbullah fighters," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

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Mansour Heads to Cairo: We Can't Accept that Hizbullah be Labeled Terrorist

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Tuesday stressed that Lebanon cannot accept that Hizbullah be labeled as a “terrorist organization,” noting that Lebanon is still committed to the so-called self-dissociation policy.

Ahead of leaving Beirut for Cairo, where he will take part in an extraordinary meeting for Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday, Mansour said: “The meeting will be focused on the Syrian issue and the latest developments in this regard.”

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Sabra Urges Berri to Open 'Humanitarian Corridors' in Qusayr: Delaying Aid Leads to Massacre

Caretaker leader of the Syrian National Coalition George Sabra on Tuesday urged Speaker Nabih Berri to open “humanitarian corridors” to evacuate the wounded in the neighboring country's border town of a-Qusayr.

"There are more than 1000 wounded persons in al-Qusayr, 400 of them are in critical conditions, and we do not have enough support in the town to heal these people,” Sabra explained in a videotaped speech posted online.

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