Khalil Hrawi, adviser of President Michel Suleiman, did not rule out on Thursday the possibility of the formation of a neutral cabinet should efforts to form an all-embracing one fail, reported the Central News Agency.

He told the news agency however that political powers “are leaning towards the formation of an all-embracing government.”

Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc warned on Thursday against forming a de facto cabinet, saying that regardless of the name given to such a council of minister, it remains “unconstitutional.”

“We call for an all-inclusive cabinet,” MP Hassan Fadlallah reiterated after the bloc's meeting.

Saudi intelligence are involved in the deadly suicide bombing that targeted the Iranian embassy in southern Beirut and the resistance “will respond to the attack,” Iran's Fars news agency quoted an informed source as saying on Tuesday.

"Riyadh will pay the price doe its activities,” the source assured, explaining that Saudi Arabia is “carrying out such attacks because of its rage following its defeats in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.”

The Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will hold a third Pre-Trial Conference on Thursday 9 January in preparation for the start of the trial in the Ayyash et al. Case, announced the STL in a statement on Monday.

The Pre-Trial Conference, which will be public, will begin at 10:30 AM (Central European Time).

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.

The al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Saturday claimed credit for the deadly bombing in the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik.

ISIL managed to penetrate the "security system of the Party of Satan (Hizbullah)... and crush its strongholds... in a first small payment from the heavy account that is awaiting those wicked criminals," according to a statement obtained by U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group.

Al-Manar television on Friday broadcast a video showing how the booby-trapped Grand Cherokee exploded Thursday in the middle of a street in Haret Hreik.

The video, which was captured by a security camera in the area, shows how the car's driver was moving forward in a hesitant manner. At a certain point, he swiftly steers left after making a right turn.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday condemned the deadly “terrorist attack” that rocked the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik, calling for a “determined political response.”

In a press release, Ashton extended her “sincere condolences to the families of the victims” and hoped for a “speedy recovery for those injured.”

A leader in the Salafist Jihadist movement in Jordan announced on Thursday that the al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in Syria and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have officially decided to militarily enter Lebanon.

"Al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani and ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the decision to officially and openly enter Lebanon,” the leader told the Washington-based United Press International.

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Thursday noted that the “response” to the deadly blast that rocked the party's Haret Hreik stronghold earlier in the day must happen through “political understanding and the quick formation of a national unity cabinet.”

“The criminal bombing that occurred in Dahieh today is part of a series and we cannot tackle it as a separate or extraordinary act,” Qassem told al-Manar television, noting that “the bombing targeted ordinary people and not Hizbullah.”