Tens of thousands of documents that were leaked Wednesday containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State militants included the names of two Lebanese engineers who planned to carry out suicide attacks, LBCI reported on Friday.

Engineer graduates Abou Khattab al-Tamimi (1988) from the Bekaa area of Bouwerij and Abou Shadi al-Lebnani (1982) from the town of Qaraoun were listed among the names of 122 IS suicide attackers.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Friday that the stalled presidential elections are ready to be held at the current stage and assured that Saudi Arabia will not abandon Lebanon, An Nahar daily reported.

“The presidential fruit is mature and ripe for picking after all the delay,” he told the daily.

One soldier and five extremists were killed on Thursday as the Lebanese army launched a preemptive strike against jihadists from the Islamic State group on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.

An army statement identified the slain soldier as Mohammed Hussam al-Sayyed al-Sabsabi, saying the 23-year-old hailed from the Akkar town of Bebnin. Four soldiers were also lightly injured in the operation, according to Army chief General Jean Qahwaji.

The dead bodies of two Kuwaiti citizens were found Thursday in a room attached to a restaurant they own in the area of Kahale, just outside Beirut, state-run National News Agency reported.

“The two were found killed in the workers' room of the Laredo Restaurant that they own in the Kahale area,” NNA said.

Days following a scandalous report published on CNN showing Lebanon's river of trash flowing through the streets of the nation, the issue has once again made it to the pages of foreign magazines including French the Courrier International and Canadian Journal De Montreal touching on the government's inability to handle this file.

The Journal de Montréal, a daily tabloid newspaper, published a long article on the trash management crisis accompanied with a mock video Rise Above Lebanon's Political garbage commissioned by the You Stink Lebanese protest movement showing mountains of rubbish across the country.

The Gulf Cooperation Council on Wednesday discussed measures aimed at “confronting Hizbullah” as Prime Minister Tammam Salam held talks with the ambassadors of the Gulf states.

“The council of GCC foreign ministers discussed the measures that must be taken to confront Hizbullah,” Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced after a council meeting in Riyadh.

Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb stressed on Wednesday that investigations will continue to uncover the perpetrators behind installing illegal internet networks in several areas around Lebanon, As Safir daily reported.

“The probe will continue until the details on the violating companies and their owners are uncovered,” Harb told the daily in an interview.

Moody's said that the latest measures taken by Gulf Cooperation Council states, which urged their nationals to refrain from traveling to Lebanon, will not have a direct impact on the country's financial situation.

The credit rating company said that the proportion of visitors coming from the GCC countries has already fallen since 2011 for security reasons.

Arab parties in Israel's parliament have condemned the recent designation of Hizbullah as a terrorist organization by several Gulf Arab states.

Two parties from the Joint List, an alliance of Arab-backed parties, on Monday criticized the move by the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council.

The dead body of an Islamic State militant was found in the al-Ajram area in the outskirts of the northeastern town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

Hussam Trad, aka Abou Bakr al-Qari, was found sustaining a gunshot wound to his head, NNA added.