Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Tuesday telephoned Syrian FM Walid Muallem and discussed with him “the latest developments and threats against Syria,” amid reports of an imminent military strike against the Syrian regime, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

“This dangerous situation requires an emergency meeting of the (Lebanese) cabinet, or at least a ministerial meeting, to discuss the threats that are being launched against Syria and the possibility of a military strike against it and the direct repercussions on Lebanon,” Mansour told NNA.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Monday his political camp cannot join a cabinet comprising Hizbullah ministers at present, noting that he does not endorse the “hypothesis” that the Dahieh and Tripoli bombings were orchestrated by the “same hand.”

Asked in an interview on Future TV how to put an end to the series of bombings that have rocked several Lebanese regions, Geagea said: “The state must address the situation, as currently the state only comprises President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, who must form a serious cabinet that should not be crippled, paralyzed or under the influence of intimidation.”

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) accused on Saturday Hizbullah of the two bombing that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day before.

“Hizbullah with certainty” is responsible for the attack that killed 35 people in Tripoli, AQIM said in a tweet.

Iran denounced on Saturday the powerful blasts that rocked the northern city of Tripoli a day earlier, pointing out that Tehran will not allow “terrorism” to threaten Lebanon's stability and security.

Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister for the Arab and African Affairs Hussein Amir Abdul-Lahian pointed out in comments to IRNA news agency that the explosions that hit Tripoli came after an earlier strike by Israel on the area of Naameh south of Beirut.

Hizbullah on Friday condemned the Israeli air raid that targeted the Naameh area south of Beirut at dawn, describing it as a “dangerous and flagrant violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.”

It said the attack “confirms the enemy's criminal intentions towards Lebanon and its people, which requires permanent vigilance and full preparedness to confront its hostile adventures.”

Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah on Thursday refused to condemn a rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon that took place earlier in the day, although he denied any involvement by Hizbullah in the incident.

"We were not aware that a rocket attack will happen and we have nothing to do with it,” Fadlallah said in an interview on LBCI television.

Fugitive Islamist cleric Ahmed al-Asir on Monday noted that the deadly Ruwais bombing was “a normal result of the crimes committed by (Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan) Nasrallah and his party against our brothers in Syria."

"Nasrallah used a provocative rhetoric to secure further hegemony over the Lebanese,” Asir said, referring to the speech delivered by Nasrallah in the wake of the blast.

Opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Syria is now being run by regime allies Iran and Hizbullah, with President Bashar Assad out of the picture, in an interview published Sunday.

Jarba also told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that Syrian rebels have seized control of "at least half" of the country, 29 months into an anti-Assad uprising.

The death toll in the blast that rocked Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh on Thursday rose to 24, announced the Red Cross on Friday according to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

It had state earlier that 248 people were wounded in the blast.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon vowed on Friday to “accurately define the nature” of the latest Israeli incursion in the southern town of al-Labbouneh and prevent future violations of the border.

"Due to the seriousness of the situation, it is very important for the UNIFIL to uncover what happened on Wednesday,” UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Paolo Serra said.