The March 14 General Secretariat renewed on Wednesday its assertion that eliminating illegitimate arms will lead to stability in Lebanon.

It voiced after its weekly meeting “its constant readiness to mobilize in any region, city, or village to confront the plot to incite sectarianism among the Lebanese as had recently happened in the northern city of Tripoli.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat slammed on Tuesday attempts to target the image of the northern city of Tripoli, saying that it embraces coexistence among its people.

He said in his weekly editorial in the PSP-affiliated al-Anbaa website: “The residents of Tripoli have long been proud of their city's diversity.”

An unknown attacker on Monday hurled a hand grenade at an army vehicle near the Barrad al-Bisar area in Tripoli's al-Zahriyeh, which left two soldiers wounded.

“At once, an army unit raided the only building that faces Barrad al-Bisar to pursue and arrest the perpetrator,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Unknown assailants on Monday beat up a young man who hails from the Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in an apparent sectarian attack.

LBCI television identified the man as Ali Jaafar al-Zahab, saying he was assaulted in the Tripoli district of al-Baqqar.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi reiterated on Sunday that rival officials should engage in dialogue to confront the security dangers and political crises gripping the country.

He said in his Sunday sermon during mass he held in Bkirki that he “prayed for stability in Lebanon, which on the second day of New Year fell in grief over the Haret Hreik bombing.”

One person was killed and four people were injured in clashes between the districts of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported Sunday.

NNA said Ali Abdul Qader Suweid was killed at noon Sunday from sniper fire in Bab al-Tabbaneh.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr ordered on Saturday handing over the human remains of suicide bomber Qutaiba al-Satem to his family in the northern city of Akkar.

MTV noted that heavy gunfire shots were heard in Tripoli as Satem's remains arrived in the northern city.

Several people were injured on Saturday as clashes took place in the northern city of Tripoli and sniper activity was registered between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.

"Seven people were wounded in Bab al-Tabbaneh and (Tripoli's) Hara Barranieh,” LBCI television reported.

Several northern leaders condemned on Saturday the torching of Father Ibrahim Sarrouj's historical library in the northern city of Tripoli, considering that this act does not conform to the teachings of Islam.

Hundreds of civil society members also took to the streets of Tripoli to protest the torching of a decades-old library owned by the Greek Orthodox priest.

Unknown assailants on Friday set fire to a famous library owned by Father Ibrahim Sarrouj in the northern city of Tripoli.

“Firemen are trying to extinguish the blaze that erupted in Father Ibrahim Sarrouj's library in Tripoli's al-Rahbat street,” LBCI television reported.