Head of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad on Sunday called on the new cabinet to “exert efforts to achieve what it has considered as priorities: fighting terrorism and holding the presidential vote within its constitutional timeframe.”

He also urged the cabinet, which adopted a consensus policy statement Friday after a month of political wrangling, to “shoulder the responsibility of alleviating the dire living conditions of the Lebanese.”

The army opened fire on Sunday at a vehicle in the outskirts of Arsal after it refused to comply with the orders of the checkpoint, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, an army checkpoint in al-Reyan valley on the outskirts of the eastern border town opened fire at the pick-up truck after people in it refused to follow their requests.

Arsal residents condemned Sunday the firing of rockets from the Eastern Mountain Range, urging the army to deploy in the area, as the only road linking the town to al-Labweh and Lebanese regions was reopened.

“We denounce all kinds of terrorism and the firing of rockets from the eastern mountain range,” a statement issued by the prominent figures of the Bekaa town of Arsal's following a meeting at the municipality of the town.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged on Sunday officials to grant the cabinet of Prime Minister Tammam Salam the vote of confidence after grueling discussions that concluded nearly 10-month consultations to form his cabinet and deep rift concerning the policy statement.

He wondered during Sunday's mass sermon if the Lebanese officials realize the damage inflicted to the country's economy, society, security and administration by their ongoing conflicts.

An estimated 10,000 Syrian children in Lebanon are likely to be suffering from malnutrition and has increased by 5.9 percent in 2013, according to a recent UNICEF-led survey as the U.N. agency said nearly 2,000 were at risk of dying if they weren't immediately treated.

Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter's dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving.

Syrian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Arsal as media reports said that gunmen from the rebel bastion of Yabrud fled to the area after the Syrian army seized full control of the town.

The Syrian airstrike targeted the outskirts of Arsal's mountainous regions.

The pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat revealed on Sunday the fate of four Lebanese nationals missing in Syria out of 622 names, which Syrian authorities refuse to recognize their presence in the regime's prisons.

The newspaper published four official Syrian documents concerning the fate of Salim Salamah, Kozhaya Shehwan, Abdul Nasser al-Masri and Raef Faraj.

The Russian Embassy in Lebanon beefed up its security measures after obtaining information that an extremist group is monitoring it, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Sunday.

According to the newspaper, an extremist group led by a Jordanian of Chechen origin is plotting to carry out attacks against Russian interests in Lebanon.

Contact are ongoing to convince the Phalange Party to withhold its threat to resign from Premier Tammam Salam's government over the new Cabinet's policy statement as it is impeding the agreement between the political arch-foes.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Sunday, the cabinet will receive a total of 110 lawmakers out of 128 ill grant Salam's government the vote of confidence despite the Lebanese Forces parliamentary bloc's decision to withhold it and the forced absence of Head of al-Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri and his bloc's lawmaker MP Oqab Saqr from the parliamentary session.

Armed clashes renewed on Sunday afternoon in Tripoli, shattering a cautious calm that had engulfed the city since dawn, as a number of MPs, Muslim clerics and figures called for a ceasefire and rejected attacks on the army.

“Clashes have escalated between Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen and the army is shooting at the sources of gunfire,” al-Jadeed television reported in the evening.