Two soldiers were killed at dawn on Saturday in a traffic accident on the Dora-Karantina highway, reported the National News Agency.

The accident happened when a Toyota Infiniti car, driven at high speed by Mehdi Hassan Hammoud overturned on the eastern lane of the highway to land on the western lane where it collided with a Hyundai and another Toyota.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji is set to travel to the UK on September 23 on a five-day visit where he is set to hold talks with a number of British officials, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

He is scheduled to meet with David Ashley, head of the British Foreign Office's Levant Regional Team, to discuss military aid to the Lebanese army.

The Turkish national who was kidnapped by al-Meqdad clan's military wing is till missing, reported An Nahar daily on Saturday.

A military source denied to the daily that the army had located the national who managed to escape his captors on Monday when the army arrested the brother of the head of al-Meqdad family association in the southern Beirut suburb of al-Rowais.

The head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun announced on Friday that any change in Syria “will destroy Lebanon.”

He warned: “Any change in Syria without knowledge of the country's new ruling regime will destroy us and Lebanon.”

Gunfire erupted in the southern Beirut suburb of al-Rowais on Friday after the army arrested the brother of the head of al-Meqdad family association.

“The gunfire in al-Rowais erupted over the army’s arrest of Hasan al-Meqdad, the brother of Maher al-Meqdad,” al-Jadeed television reported.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announced Friday that he “will not support a camp against another” during his chairmanship of the current session of the Arab League, saying he does not care about the domestic “overbidding” in this regard.

“Lebanon will not enter the mazes of Arab politics and will not support a camp against another,” Mansour said in an interview with NBN television.

Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing from the conflict in neighboring Syria in recent months and many of them are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, fearful for their safety and unable to afford medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a report released Friday.

“Most refugees are settling in low socioeconomic regions of Lebanon, placing an additional burden on already overstretched resources. Gaps are appearing in refugees’ access to medical care, particularly hospital-level care and treatment for chronic diseases,” MSF said.

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Friday urged the European Union to place the military branch of Hizbullah on its list of "terrorist" organizations.

"I would like to see the EU designate and sanction the military wing of Hizbullah," Hague said in response to a question on arriving for talks with his EU counterparts.

An explosive device was found on Friday near a liquor store in southern Lebanon, reported the Central News Agency.

It said that the bomb, located in the town of Qaaqaiyat al-Jisr, was not prepared to be detonated.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel warned on Friday of forces in the Arab world that may seek to impose new dictatorships in the region.

He noted the existence of “dormant dictator cells” in the Arab world that are being protected by totalitarian regimes.