Drug lord and wanted criminal known as Samir Fawzi Monzer has been killed in an army operation in the southern suburb of Bourj al-Barajneh, an army statement said on Saturday.

The parliament will convene on Friday to vote on the newly approved electoral law amid reports claiming that the parliament's term will be extended for 12 months instead of 11, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

Reports circulated a day earlier claimed that the parliament's term will be extended for one year, although it has been announced that the polls will be staged on May 6, 2018, said the daily.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged ten suspects of Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and Yemeni nationalities with belonging to a terrorist organization, the National News Agency reported on Thursday.

NNA reported that the suspects, five of whom are already in detention, were charged with carrying out terrorist attacks, forming terror cells to carry out suicide bomb attacks in Beirut's southern suburbs and the airport road, assassinations and the possession of weapons and explosives.

Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel lashed out at the new electoral law and the extension of the parliament' term as he accused parties of aiming to secure additional financial gains out of the move.

“Extending the parliament's term is aimed at giving time for parties to garner additional financial gains,” said Gemayel in a press conference on Thursday from al-Saifi.

A five-member Lebanese family has been reported missing among the many lost people after a massive inferno tore through a London apartment block leaving at least 12 people dead on Wednesday, LBCI reported on Thursday.

The reported missing Choucair family is composed of a man, his wife and three daughters who hail from the town of Nahle in Baalbek, added LBCI.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat was nonchalant about the government’s approval of a new electoral law saying he agreed on it out of “keenness for consensus”, Ad Diyar daily reported on Thursday.

“It is a settlement of the status quo. We have agreed on it out of keenness for consensus despite our remarks,” Jumblat told the daily.

A new report launched Wednesday by the International Committee of the Red Cross reveals five times more civilians die in offensives carried out in cities than in other battles.

After marathon talks and an eleventh-hour agreement, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved a new electoral law based on proportional representation and 15 electoral districts, replacing the winner-takes-all system for the first time in the country's history.

Minister of State for Women's Affairs Jean Oghassapian said on Wednesday that dismissing the women's quota from the new agreed vote law was “the worst part of the election law.”

“Canceling the women's quota was the worst part of the law. It was canceled the last minute due to a number of complications that affected other items in the new electoral format," Oghassapian told VDL (93.3) in an interview.

The Kataeb party slammed Wednesday the newly approved proportional representation electoral law as a “political fraud” describing it as a “masked bid to return to the 1960” majoritarian law, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

“What happened is a political fraud and a masked return to the 1960 law. The vote law was tailored to suit the interests of some people in power,” a prominent Kataeb source told the daily in an interview.