Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed Monday that his party is “ready” for both parliamentary polls or another extension of the legislature's term, as he lauded the al-Mustaqbal movement's stance on the recent deadly clashes between the army and Islamist gunmen in Tripoli and the North.

“If we don't extend the parliament's term, we would be abolishing one of the state institutions. We only have three choices -- extension, vacuum or elections,” Nasrallah said in a speech marking the tenth night of Ashura at the Sayyed al-Shohada complex in Dahieh, where he defied security concerns and made a rare public appearance.

Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel announced Monday that the party's MPs will vote against the proposed extension of parliament's term during Wednesday's session, stressing that “the priority at the moment is the election of a president.”

“Some consider that this is part of the necessary legislation … but this would totally and ultimately marginalize the principle of electing a new president,” Gemayel warned in an interview with Radio Monte Carlo.

A number of rockets were fired on Monday from the Eastern Mountain Range, reported the National News Agency.

It said that three rockets landed on the outskirts of the Bekaa city of al-Hermel.

Lebanese police will prevent vehicles from entering the southern suburbs of Beirut from midnight as part of tight security measures imposed ahead of the Shiite Ashura commemoration, sources said Monday.

Security is usually tight for the event, but residents said this was the first time police were banning vehicles from the Shiite-majority southern suburbs the night before Tuesday's observance.

The army announced on Monday the arrest of seven suspects in the northern city of Tripoli wanted on various charges.

The army said that suspect Ahmed Ahmed Khalaf was detained for opening fire and tossing hand grenades against army positions.

A Lebanese man who hails from the northern city of Tripoli has been killed while fighting alongside jihadists in the Syrian border town of Kobane, reports said Monday.

They said Alaa al-Hosni, a resident of the Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, died as he and other Islamic State group militants fought with fighters in Kobane, a Kurdish town.

The Lebanese army will be able to purchase French weapons under a $3 billion deal financed by Riyadh at the beginning of the year after Saudi and French officials ink the contract on Tuesday, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported.

According to the newspaper published on Monday, Saudi and French officials will sign the deal at the Royal Palace in Riyadh after an almost 11-month delay.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea is scheduled to launch an initiative to avoid the extension of parliament’s term, which is set to take place on Wednesday.

The “last-minute initiative” will be made during a press conference at 12:30 pm Tuesday, Geagea's press office announced.

A Syrian official said that his country is not enthusiastic to respond to the Islamic State group and al-Nusra Front demands to guarantee the release of the abducted Lebanese soldiers and policemen.

“We cannot find any justification to repeat the Aazaz pilgrims experience after Beirut failed to thank Damascus on its efforts to help end the kidnapping ordeal,” a Syrian minister, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told An Nahar newspaper on Monday.

The founder of the salafist movement in Tripoli cleric Dai al-Islam al-Shahhal revealed on Monday that he will soon announce new defense tactics, pointing out that the army's confiscation of arms is being exaggerated.

“I will announce a new stage of defense,” Shahhal said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.