The Military Court on Tuesday started questioning detainees accused of being involved in last year's bloody clashes in the town of Abra near the southern city of Sidon.
Brigadier General Khalil Ibrahim questioned six of the detainees, postponing the interrogation of the remaining suspects to September 4.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday summoned the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly, stressing to them the need to quickly equip the Lebanese armed forces, even if that required “bypassing the routine mechanism.”
Berri met with the envoys at his Ain al-Tineh headquarters, explaining “the threats that Lebanon is facing, which were manifested in the incidents that the Arsal region suffered and is still suffering at the hands of terrorist groups.”

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq played down on Tuesday the confessions of al-Nusra Front leader, whose arrest sparked clashes between Islamist gunmen with the Lebanese army earlier in August.
“I don't think that (Imad) Jomaa's confessions would thwart the ongoing endeavors to release the kidnapped soldiers,” Mashnouq said in comments published in al-Liwaa newspaper.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil denied claims that an ambassador, whose identity was not disclosed, had requested that he play the role of mediator to facilitate holding the presidential elections, reported An Nahar daily on Tuesday.
He told the daily: “I am not a mediator in this affair.”

The Lebanese Army found on Monday night a launchpad in the southern Marjeyoun al-Jarmaq area that was used to launch missiles into Israel, the army said in a communique on Tuesday.
"The Lebanese army executed a thorough inspection in the al-Jarmak valley area after unknown assailants fired rockets into the Palestinian territories from the said location,” the communique added.

Progressive Socialist Party Leader Walid Jumblat postponed his upcoming meetings with senior Lebanese officials after he surprisingly left Beirut.
Al-Liwaa newspaper, published on Tuesday, said that the destination of Jumblat is unknown, despite rumors saying that he headed to the French capital Paris for talks with al-Mustaqbal chief Saad Hariri.

A rocked was fired on Monday evening from southern Lebanon towards Israel, as sirens wailed across northern Israeli settlements without any immediate reports of injuries.
"A rocket was fired from an area near (the southern) al-Jarmaq region in Wadi al-Litani towards Israel,” LBCI television reported in the evening.

The jihadists who overran Arsal in early August wanted to establish an Islamic "emirate" straddling northern and eastern regions and linked to Syria's Qalamun with Sirajeddine Zureiqat, a spokesman of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, as its "emir," a media report said on Monday.
"Imad Jomaa, whose arrest sparked the clashes (with the Lebanese army), confessed during preliminary investigations that Abou Malek al-Souri, emir of the al-Nusra Front in Qalamun, and the 29 armed groups under his command had agreed before Jomaa's capture to wage a joint attack on Arsal,” LBCI TV reported.

The Internal Security Forces on Monday announced the arrest of “one of the most dangerous fugitives” at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint in the Bekaa, noting that he was wanted on more than 130 arrest warrants.
In a statement, the ISF identified the man as M. J., saying he was apprehended on Sunday.

The Kataeb Party on Monday demanded ending “unreal initiatives” aimed at overcoming the presidential impasse, stressing that holding the vote is the “only solution for current hot crises.”
"We demand an end to all unreal initiatives that only aim at harming the presidency and distract from the main task of electing a new president according to constitutional rules,” the party said in a released statement after its political bureau's weekly meeting.
