Police said on Saturday that they have arrested a three-member armed robbery and car theft gang in the eastern city of Baalbek.

An Internal Security Forces communique said police arrested three Lebanese men during a raid they carried out in Baalbek.

The Lebanese army arrested on Saturday several suspects involved in gunbattles that took place a day earlier in the coastal town of al-Saadiyet that lies south of Beirut.

“An army unit raided several areas this morning, arresting 10 nationals, two Syrians and a Palestinian,” said a communique issued by the military command.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri held Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement responsible for the Saudi military aid halt, reiterating that fiery rhetoric targeting Saudi Arabia is totally rejected and does not represent Lebanon's policy.

“Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement are to blame for the suspension in Saudi aid,” said Hariri after a meeting he held with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Deryan at Dar el-Fatwa on Saturday.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geaega stressed on Saturday that the government must demand Hizbullah to stop making fiery statements against Saudi Arabia following the Kingdom's decision that halted aid to the country's army.

“The Lebanese government must convene and draw a formal request for Hizbullah to stop its attacks against Saudi Arabia,” said Geagea in a press conference.

The ministerial committee tasked with following up on the months long trash management file kicked off a meeting at the Grand Serail on Saturday after the export plan failed to rid the country of its piling garbage.

"Discussions are to focus on reviving the plan to establish landfills in several areas in Lebanon," Education Minister Elias Abou Saab said before he joined the interlocutors.

Following the halt of a Saudi program to fund aid to the Lebanese army, Turkey expressed willingness to provide Lebanon with military aid worth $1.1 million, the National News Agency said.

Turkish ambassador to Lebanon Cagatay Erciyes told Defense Minister Samir Moqbel that his country is ready to “continue to support Lebanon and its army,” NNA said.

The United Arab Emirates will deport more than twenty Lebanese nationals residing on its territory giving them a 48-hour notice to leave the country, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

Related authorities in Lebanon were informed of the decision in the past few hours, sources close to Foreign Minster Jebran Bassil told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri held talks Friday evening with Democratic Gathering chief MP Walid Jumblat in Clemenceau, stressing that the presidential post is for “all Christians” and “all Lebanese.”

The meeting was also attended by Hariri's advisers Ghattas Khoury and Nader Hariri, Jumblat's sons Taymur and Aslan, the ministers Akram Shehayyeb and Wael Abou Faour, and the MPs Henri Helou, Marwan Hamadeh, Ghazi Aridi, Elie Aoun, Antoine Saad, Fouad al-Saad, Alaa Terro and Nehme Tohme.

Rocket-propelled grenades were used Friday evening in clashes between two armed groups in the coastal al-Saadiyat area south of Beirut, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Security forces are trying to contain the situation,” NNA said.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri called Friday on Saudi Arabia to be an “elder brother” for Lebanon after the kingdom decided to halt military aid worth $4 billion to Lebanon in connection with a row with Hizbullah.

The Saudi move was “in response to unwise decisions to remove Lebanon from the Arab consensus and put the foreign policy of the Lebanese State in the service of regional axes, as happened recently in the last meeting of the Arab foreign ministers and the meeting of Islamic nations,” said Hariri in a statement.