Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday kicked off his official visit to the United States by meeting a number of U.S. Congress officials in Washington.

The Kataeb Party on Monday accused the ruling political class of “giving up sovereignty,” in connection with Hizbullah's operation in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal.

A Kuwaiti Islamist member of parliament on Monday proposed legislation calling for members and supporters of Lebanon's Hizbullah be sentenced to up to 20 years in jail.

President Michel Aoun on Monday presided over a security meeting at the Baabda Palace and listened to a briefing from the army chief about the situation on the Lebanese-Syrian border amid the ongoing clashes in Arsal's outskirts between Hizbullah and al-Nusra Front.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday signed two key draft laws and referred them to the Council of Ministers, state-run National News Agency reported.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Monday said that a medical report he received on the death of four Syrian refugees showed they deceased as the result of chronic health problems, the State-run National News Agency reported.

Saqr received the report from a medical committee tasked with investigating the reasons leading to the death of four Syrians who were taken into the army's custody.

Hizbullah's leadership announced on Monday that its “operation” against al-Nusra Front terror group entrenched in the outskirts of Arsal was "about to end," as it “urged militants to surrender” after seizing control of the majority of the group's strongholds.

Lebanon's military and security agencies have taken the needed measures following threats that some “sleeper cells” committed to terror groups in the border town of Arsal could mobilize against the army in kidnap operations, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

A military source who spoke on condition of anonymity told the daily that “confessions made by one of the detainees said that sleeper cells in a number of encampments in Arsal, around 150 members, were planning to carry out security operations against the army's units deployed in the area, cutting off all supply and communication routes.

Families of nine Lebanese servicemen held hostage since 2014 by the jihadist Islamic State group have expressed concerns over the fate of their sons, amid an unprecedented offensive by Hizbullah aimed at ousting all militants from the Lebanese-Syrian border region.

Army intelligence agents on Sunday arrested Lebanese national Khodr al-Fliti in the northeastern border town of Arsal, media reports said.