Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday expressed his "pain and grief with the dear residents of Ain Ebel" over the death of Lebanese Forces member Elias Hasrouni, who was abducted and killed earlier this month.

Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has visited the family of slain Hezbollah member Ahmed Qassas, who was killed in the Kahale clash on Wednesday.

“The footage revealed that Qassas was the symbol of honor, loyalty and dignity in his resistant position and he sacrificed his blood for the interest of Lebanon,” Qassem told the family.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has met with Ziad Nakhalah, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, who was accompanied by his deputy Mohammed al-Hindi, a Hezbollah statement said on Sunday.

The talks tackled “the latest developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region,” the statement added.

A Kataeb Party source has clarified remarks voiced by party chief Sami Gemayel from the unrest-hit town of Kahale, noting that the Kataeb leader did not call for taking up arms to confront Hezbollah.

“We are no longer in traditional political moment and Hezbollah must decide whether or not it wants to live with the rest of the Lebanese under the ceiling of the constitution and equality,” the source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Saturday.

A preliminary forensic audit of Lebanon's central bank by professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has painted a damning picture of the institution under long-serving former governor Riad Salameh.

Lebanon’s national television, Tele Liban, went off air on Friday amid an employees’ strike.

Acting Central Bank Governor Wassim Mansouri on Friday held talks with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari at the Saudi Embassy in Beirut.

Marada Movement chief and presidential candidate Suleiman Franjieh on Friday held talks in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

The United Nations refugee agency said Friday it was "extremely concerned" over the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without being screened to determine whether they need legal protection and who may be deported back to their war-wracked homeland.

The UNHCR office in Cyprus said deportations and transfers between states "without legal and procedural safeguards for persons who may be in need of international protection" are against international and European law.

Fadi Bejjani, a Kahale resident killed in the latest clash with Hezbollah members, was laid to rest Friday in his hometown.