Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) accused on Saturday Hizbullah of the two bombing that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day before.

“Hizbullah with certainty” is responsible for the attack that killed 35 people in Tripoli, AQIM said in a tweet.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati vowed on Saturday that the northern city of Tripoli will not yield, noting that those who carried out Friday's attacks will be pursued.

“The security forces are fully carrying out their tasks in Tripoli. We called for backup,” Miqati told reporters after a security meeting at his residence in Tripoli.

Tripoli Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafei accused on Saturday the Syrian regime of carrying out the blasts that rocked Ruwais neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs and the northern city of Tripoli, pointing out that if the state can't protect the city then the residents will.

“We are the victims of the Syrian terrorism. We are not takfiris,” al-Rafei told reports after a meeting for the Committee of Muslim Ulemas.

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdullatif Al-Zayani condemned on Saturday the “terrorist” blasts that rocked the the northern city of Tripoli.

“Targeting worship places and innocent people is a vile criminal action,” al-Zayani said in a statement issued late on Friday.

Sporadic gunfire was heard on Saturday in the northern city of Tripoli as gunmen erected checkpoints and began inspecting the ids of passersby, a day after two deadly blasts that targeted the city.

The calm in the city was violated by intermittent gunfire, in particular, in Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood and the area surrounding it, the state-run National news agency reported.

Maronite patriarch Beshara al-Rahi, who is known for his strong views against radical Islamism, said the situation in Egypt and Syria showed there was a plan by outside powers "to destroy the Arab world".

"There is a plan to destroy the Arab world for political and economic interests and boost inter-confessional conflict between Sunnis and Shiites," al-Rahi told Vatican radio.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized in an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama his inaction in Syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus which the opposition says left hundreds dead and provoked revulsion around the world.

“Syria's regime forces led by President Bashar Assad are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing, mass rape, systematic torture, (including of infants) leveling of cities upon their inhabitants, and, last but not least, using highly virulent nerve gas, causing mass civilian casualties,” Geagea said in his letter to Obama.

Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau thwarted on Saturday an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of Captagon into the neighboring country Syria, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Six trailer trucks, heading to Syria, in the Bekaa town of Saadnayel were seized by the intelligence bureau.

Security agencies warned Speaker Nabih Berri and AMAL movement leadership of plans by culprits to target a mass rally that will be held in the southern Nabatiyeh province to mark the 33rd anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Moussa Sadr and his two companions.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Saturday, the warnings come in light of security information obtained by security agencies that terrorists will target the anniversary.

Iran denounced on Saturday the powerful blasts that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day earlier, pointing out that Tehran will not allow “terrorism” to threaten Lebanon's stability and security.

Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for the Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdul-Lahian pointed out in comments to IRNA news agency that the explosions that hit Tripoli came after an earlier strike by Israel on the area of Naameh south of Beirut.