Military Examining Magistrate Imad al-Zain issued an arrest warrant on Thursday against a Lebanese national on charges of smuggling weapons to the Free Syrian Army, reported the National News Agency.

It said that Hussein A. was arrested after attempting to smuggle the arms through the border region of al-Qaa in the Bekaa.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Thursday he would soon issue a “Service Passport” which would be used by its holder for a specific official mission abroad.

Mansour told An Nahar daily the passport would be given to officials with special missions in other countries on condition that they hand over the document to the ministry upon their return to Lebanon.

The Obama administration decided to resume its military assistance to Lebanon although by Thursday there was not yet any official confirmation about the decision, As Safir daily said.

The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Howard Berman, suspended a $100 million assistance to the Lebanese army in August 2010 over concerns that Hizbullah may have influence over the country's army and American-supplied weapons could be used to threaten Israel.

The cabinet failed during its session at the Grand Serail on Wednesday to reach a decision regarding the right of Lebanese women, who are married to foreigners, to pass the citizenship to their children.

Sharp differences in opinion emerged to the surface prompting the cabinet to approve the formation of a committee tasked with extensively studying the project before taking a final decision.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s opposition to the leasing of power-generating vessels was a point of contention during Wednesday’s cabinet session as Finance Minister Mohammed al-Safadi expressed disapproval of his decision to halt the project, local newspapers reported.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Thursday, Safadi, who is loyal to Miqati, voiced support to Energy Minister Jebran Bassil’s project expressing a point of view contradicting with that of the premier.

The Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has said Hizbullah may have hundreds of operatives based in the United States as several former officials raised fears on the rising threat of the party to U.S. security.

During a hearing Wednesday with former government officials testifying,

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment of the six members of the authority tasked with administrating the oil sector.

During a session at the Grand Serail, the cabinet also decided to accept military vehicles and equipment donated to the Internal Security Forces by the U.S. embassy, and called for “keeping the army away from political bickering,” Information Minister Walid al-Daouq announced.

Machinegun rounds, flares and percussion bombs were fired from the Syrian side of the border towards the stream of the Grand River on Wednesday, some of which landing in the northern Lebanese town of Bani Sakhr in al-Bqaiaa region, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

“Machinegun volleys struck several homes, causing no casualties, as a bomb landed in a grove,” NNA quoted residents as saying."

March 14 youth organizations strongly condemned on Wednesday the Antonine Fathers University incident in which students performed Muslim prayers against the wishes of the university administration that did not comply with their request to dedicate a prayer room for their needs.

The organizations called on all secondary schools, universities, and academic institutions to suspend classes on Thursday between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. in protest against Tuesday’s incident.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stated on Wednesday that he was not informed that the Bkirki meeting that was supposed to be in April has been postponed.

He said: “We are still awaiting the outcome of the efforts of the follow-up committee that is studying the parliamentary electoral law.”