The March 14 general-secretariat warned on Wednesday against any “adventure” that would open a new front in southern Lebanon in light of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Following its weekly meeting, the general-secretariat announced in a statement “full solidarity with the Palestinian people that are being targeted by Israel and paying the price of its brutality.”

Eighteen-year-old Youssef Ali Bazzal was freed on Wednesday in Syria after his family paid a sum of money to win his release, media reports said.

According to the National News Agency, Bazzal's family paid the kidnappers around $60,000 in ransom in exchange for his release.

Alfa mobile network has launched the “Army Line,” an exclusive offer to the Lebanese Army with preferential rates on its calls, SMS and data, the state-run National News Agency said Wednesday.

The company launched the product at a press conference it held on Tuesday at the Martyr Naddaf Barracks in Amshit.

Examining Magistrate Judge Ziad Makna demanded in his indictment the death penalty against the killer of 22-year-old Roland Chbeir, who was murdered on October 28 by his friend.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday that Makna accused Charbel Shallita of committing a premeditated crime.

The Lebanese Army Intelligence has reportedly arrested two men for belonging to Fatah al-Islam terrorist group, one of them a militant who receives direct orders from the network's leader Osama al-Shehabi.

High-ranking security sources told al-Joumhouria daily published Wednesday that Khalil Ahmed al-Boubou, who was jailed for five years after a 2006 attack on the Lebanese army at the Fakhreddine Barracks, was recently seized for helping an Algerian Fatah al-Islam militant escape Roumieh prison.

Several inmates rioted at the prison of the eastern city of Zahle on Wednesday to protest the transfer of two other convicts to another prison, media reports said.

They said the prisoners burned their belongings in one of the cells, which prompted guards to call for firefighters to put out the blaze.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat's initiative to end the political crisis in the country is seeking to find common ground among the political foes to end the deadlock, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.

Jumblat's initiative is based on finding an alternative to Prime Minister Najib Miqati's cabinet without causing any political vacuum in the country.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel kicked off consultations in coordination with President Michel Suleiman to discuss the possibility of forming a new cabinet, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the daily, Gemayel is seeking consensus among Lebanese foes to form a new government.

A Hizbullah official in south Lebanon said the party was on full alert in case of any Israeli attack in light of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, but denied fighters were policing the border to prevent attacks on the Jewish state.

"This is a job for the (Lebanese) army and United Nations peacekeepers, not Hizbullah," the official told the Associated Press.

New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that a Lebanese bank's use of a New York account for multimillion-dollar wire transfers establishes the basis for a lawsuit in the U.S. by Israeli "victims" of Hizbullah's rocket attacks in the 2006 war.

The lawsuit was filed by American, Canadian and Israeli citizens who live in northern Israel. It claims that Lebanese Canadian Bank supported terrorism by handling international financial transactions of the Hizbullah affiliate Shahid Foundation. The lawsuit says the money was moved through an account at American Express Bank in New York.