The Free Syrian Army's Political and Media Coordinator, Louay Meqdad, lashed out on Thursday at Hizbullah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, considering his latest speech as “elusive.”
“Nasralla's threats of intervening along with Iran to safeguard the Syrian regime is a direct confession that the regime (of Bashar Assad) began collapsing,” Meqdad said in comments to the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper.

The director of the office of Syrian refugees' affairs in Lebanon Khaled al-Mustafa, aka Abu Raed, informed security forces that he escaped an assassination attempt while he was in his office in the northern city of Tripoli, MTV reported on Wednesday.
“Al-Mustafa survived a gunshot fired from a silenced pistol,” it elaborated.

The relatives of the nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria's Aazaz on Wednesday staged a sit-in at Beirut's Martyrs Square, amid a noteworthy participation by March 8 politicians and reports of an imminent swap deal.
Later on Wednesday, the kidnappers of the pilgrims, the so-called Northern Storm Brigade, issued a statement on its official Facebook page declaring that “after interrogating the Lebanese who are in our custody, it turned out that they are members of Iran's party in Lebanon and not pilgrims like the party is claiming because there are no holy shrines in Aazaz.”

Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh met on Wednesday with Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel over lunch in the latter's residence in the Metn's Bikfaya town and both men stressed on the need to neutralize Lebanon from the Syrian crisis.
"The talks stressed on the necessity to neutralize Lebanon from Syria's war, regardless of the Lebanese factions' stances towards the neighboring country's conflict,” a statement released by Gemayel's office revealed.
An Israeli man was arrested by the Lebanese army on Wednesday after he crossed the border fence between Israel and Lebanon in Ras al-Naqoura, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
“Lebanese army intelligence agents are interrogating the Israeli man who was arrested after crossing the border fence,” the Beirut-based, pan-Arab television al-Mayadeen reported.

Controversial Islamist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir on Wednesday returned to Lebanon after crossing into the war-torn Syrian area of Qusayr to “support the real heroes” of the armed Syrian opposition.
“My visit to Qusayr's countryside was in support of the true heroes and to coordinate with them and examine the situation,” Asir said on the social networking website Twitter.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's latest speech, saying that he has completely “written off the Lebanese state” and substituted it with the party.
He said in a statement: “The most dangerous remark by Nasrallah was not his position on the Syrian revolt or his undying defense of President Bashar Assad, but his suicidal link of the fate of Lebanon to that of Syria.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, saying that the Syrian regime doesn't need the party's intervention in battles on its territories.
“The Syrian regime will collapse and you will not be able to stop history from writing itself,” Geagea said during a televised speech.

The March 14 General Secretariat accused Hizbullah of turning against the Taef accord and the policy of “mutual coexistence” in Lebanon.
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “The party has completely turned against the Baabda Declaration.”

The army intervened on Wednesday to contain an individual dispute, that soon spiraled into an armed clash, between two families in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood.
According to the state-run National News Agency, the dispute erupted between men from Srour and others from Sharkas families.
