Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Tuesday that dialogue is the best means to unite and enforce Lebanon in light of the current dangerous regional conditions.

“We cannot solve national issues through stubbornness and arrogance, but through dialogue. We need to find common grounds on which all Lebanese meet in order to fortify our nation during this dangerous regional situation,” stressed Miqati before his visitors at the Grand Serail.

Speaker Nabih Berri has maintained his contacts with members of the March 14 camp despite the dispute with its rival March 8 camp, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

It noted that the speaker received on Saturday a telephone call from former Primer Minister Saad Hariri on the occasion of Eid al-Adha during which the two officials discussed the latest developments in Lebanon.

The national dialogue session that has been set for November 12 will likely be postponed to November 29, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

It said that the postponement may be aimed at “covering up the errors” of the March 14-led opposition.

The recent meeting for the March 14 forces that was held at the Maarab residence of Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Saturday reached an agreement on a number of political issues and steps that they will undertake during the upcoming phase in Lebanon, reported the daily An Nahar on Tuesday.

It said that a statement listing the principles and issues they agreed upon will be issued within days or this week.

The FBI investigation team that arrived in Lebanon to assess the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan completed its mission and left Beirut Monday, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper Tuesday

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told the newspaper that the team “will take its times in analyzing the data that it gathered at the crime scene before making any announcement.”

The joint parliamentary committees will not convene on Wednesday in light of the March 14 alliance's decision to boycott parliamentary work unless the cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Miqati resigns, the An Nahar daily said Tuesday.

Deputy Speaker Farid Makari announced that the boycott of the committees' sessions will continue “as long as the alliance holds on to its stance,” said the daily.

Ammar al-Dadikhi, aka Abou Ibrahim, the infamous abductor of the Lebanese pilgrims in Syria's Aazaz, has been killed during an attempt to storm a town in Aleppo's countryside, the Beirut-based, pan-Arab television al-Mayadeen reported on Monday.

“Kurdish popular committees killed Abou Ibrahim and four members of his group as they were trying to storm the town of Qastal Jindo in Aleppo's countryside,” al-Mayadeen said.

The Phalange Party on Monday called on the country's political leaders to “rise above narrow calculations and shoulder the responsibility of forming a salvation government,” reiterating its call for the resignation of the government.

"The difficult period the country is going through requires a brave posture at all levels, especially at the level of the government,” the party said in a statement issued after the weekly meeting of its political bureau.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee on Monday decided to call off a strike scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, but gave the government a one-week deadline to refer the new wage scale to parliament.

After an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the Teachers Union in Badaro, the Committee said it discussed “the latest security and political developments in the country in the wake of the assassination of martyr Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan, his bodyguard Chief Warrant Officer Ahmed Suhyouni and Georgette Sarkisian, in addition to the scores of innocent civilians who were wounded and the repercussions on the general situations in the country.”

The crisis cell announced on Monday that abducted journalist in Syria Fidaa Itani will be released soon, revealing also that there are positive signals and indications concerning the issue of the nine detained pilgrims.

Labor Minister Salim Jreissati explained after the meeting of the governmental committee in charge of following up on the Lebanese kidnapped in Syria at the Interior Minister Marwan Charbel's office that sources have disclosed that “Itani's abduction is strictly related to the material he was covering”.