Clashes renewed Monday afternoon in the northern city of Tripoli after a period of cautious calm that had started in the morning following a night of intermittent fighting.

“Clashes renewed as four shells exploded and volleys of machinegun fire were heard in the vicinity of Tripoli's Souk al-Qameh,” al-Jadeed television reported.

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.

Three people were killed on Saturday in the latest round of clashes between the rival neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli, reported the National News Agency.

The fighting had eased on Saturday morning as intermittent gunshots could be heard in the city but it intensified at night in most of the hotspots.

Tripoli-based Salafist leader Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi stressed Friday that the northern city's Islamists will not hesitate to go to jihad, or holy war, in support of the regime-besieged Syrian town of Yabrud.

“A lot of those who are collecting extortions in the city are still on the loose and a lot of criminals are still at large, while the free men were arrested, such as Omar al-Homsi, Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, Dr. Abdul Nasser Shatah and others,” Rafehi said outside al-Salam Mosque in Tripoli, after the director of his office Jalal Kalash was arrested at the Rafik Hariri International Airport.

A child was killed on Thursday in clashes that erupted in the northern city of Tripoli after the death of a local from injuries he sustained during a shooting in the morning, reported the National News Agency.

It said that Walid Barhoum died after he was shot at three times in the city earlier on Thursday.

The Lebanese Army said on Thursday that security measures undertaken by it reduced the occurrence of suicide attacks in the country and led to the arrest of prominent fugitives.

“The intensified security measure undertaken by the army units across the country reduced significantly the occurrence car bombings,” the army said in a communique issued by the army command.

Security forces at Tripoli's prison confiscated on Tuesday a number of prohibited items in the jail, as well as thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs into the facility, reported the National News Agency on Wednesday.

It said that they thwarted an attempt by a woman to smuggle 200 Benzhexol narcotic pills into the jail.

One person was wounded on Wednesday as unknown gunmen opened fire at Arab Democratic Party media official Abdul Latif Saleh in the northern city of Tripoli.

Saleh, who escaped unharmed, told LBCI TV that the shots were fired towards him in Tripoli's al-Omari Street.

Militia loyal to the Tripoli authorities were advancing on eastern Libya Wednesday where rebels demanding regional autonomy have begun exporting oil in defiance of the central government, both sides said.

Rebel fighters of the Cyrenaica Defense Force pulled back to the eastern region's historic border after pro-Tripoli militia of the Libya Shield Force pushed them out of the central coastal city of Sirte late Tuesday, a rebel commander told Agence France Presse.

Three hand grenades were hurled in Tripoli on Thursday, prompting the army to stage patrols in the restive northern city.

“Unknown assailants tossed two hand grenades in the Baal al-Darawish area in Bab al-Tabbaneh as several volleys of machinegun fire were heard in the region,” state-run National News Agency reported.