Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat noted that some Lebanese security agencies are receiving order from the Syrian regime, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

He told the daily: “The Syrian regime is as powerful as it ever was in Lebanon.”

Security agencies have received the complete telecom data of the Touch mobile phone service provider, revealed security sources to the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat Sunday.

They are set to receive the complete data from Lebanon’s second provider, Alfa, in the upcoming hours, they added.

Calm has been restored in the northern city of Tripoli after the clashes of the past two days left over 20 wounded, including three soldiers, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

A source from the Army Command told the daily that the situation is under control, noting that Friday’s clashes are the culmination of tensions that had been mounting in Tripoli since the assassination of senior Syrian security officials on July 18, among other factors.

The army intelligence detained on Saturday a Lebanese citizen and a Syrian national who were transferring arms in Brital, the National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, Lebanese Ahmed D. is from the eastern border town of al-Tufail and the Syrian national from al-Kahloun family.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora hailed the cabinet’s decision to hand over the telecom data to the security agencies, stressing the importance of continuing this matter automatically without any obstacles.

The army intelligence detained on Saturday three people in Rmeileh south of Beirut after Israeli-made equipment was found in their possession.

According to statement issued by the army, H. B., A. D., and M. S. were detained after obtaining information on suspicious endeavors carried out by them.

Nearly 34,000 Syrian refugees had fled the crackdown in their country to Lebanon according to a report issued on Saturday by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees.

“There are currently more than 34,000 Syrian refugees receiving aid in Lebanon through the efforts exerted by the Lebanese cabinet and its U.N. and non-governmental organization partners,” a statement issued by the UNHCR said.

Security forces seized cocaine from a vehicle whose three occupants escaped following a police chase in the Sabtiyeh-Jdeideh area, north of Beirut, the National News Agency reported Saturday.

NNA said the black BMW X5’s driver, Hassan Zoaiter, and another man and a woman ran to an unknown location after they hit four vehicles during a chase by a patrol from the Internal Security Forces anti-drug unit.

Twelve people were injured in gunbattles between rival neighborhoods in the northern city of Tripoli as sniper fire prevented motorists from using the Tripoli-Akkar highway, the National News Agency reported Saturday.

NNA said the clashes that erupted between mainly Alawite Jabal Mohsen and the majority Sunni area of al-Bakkar around midnight Friday spread to the al-Rifa, al-Mankoubeen, al-Shaarani, al-Hara al-Barraniyeh, Souq al-Qamh and Syria street in Bab al-Tabbaneh.

The southern port city of Sidon is bracing for a general strike on Monday to protest Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir’s sit-in that has crippled the city economically and threatened security deterioration.

Sidon’s political, economic and religious officials will meet on Sunday to make an official announcement of the strike against Asir’s sit-in and his closure of the city’s northern entrance.