Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji stressed on Monday that the security situation in Lebanon is under control due to the high readiness of the army to confront all dangers.

“There are no fears on Lebanon in the presence of its unbreakable military, which is united, ready and coherent,” Qahwaji's visitors quoted him as saying in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Israeli security officials have recommended building a barrier along the border with Jordan -- Israel's only frontier that does not yet feature a fence.

"Security officials recommended the construction of a security barrier to protect the new airport which will be built at Timna" some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of resort city Eilat, an army spokeswoman said, without elaborating.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks Friday with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and the leaders of Egypt and Jordan on the stalled Middle East peace process, officials said.

Kerry was attending an investment conference in Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh along with hundreds of prominent figures to jumpstart its economy.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji is scheduled to travel to Jordan Sunday to discuss means to boost the army's readiness in the face of the extremist groups, media reports said on Thursday.

“Qahwaji will hold a meeting with Jordan's king in Amman on Sunday to discuss equipping the Lebanese army,” LBCI television reported.

Mohammed Bakkar spends his days with his father and son in a small classroom in Lebanon near the Syrian border, where they cook, eat, wash and sleep, waiting for the day they can reunite with the rest of their family.

Bakkar's mother, wife and four other children are hundreds of miles away in Jordan's Azraq refugee camp, squeezed into a white prefab trailer of corrugated metal. When they fled to Jordan after government attacks in their village in Syria in 2013, they thought it would be just a few weeks until they were reunited. It has been more than two years.

King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Tuesday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was essential for combating Islamic extremists, saying the conflict served as a rallying cry for jihadists.

Abdullah told the European Parliament that the battle against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria was "first and foremost" a fight for Muslim nations to carry out.

Jordan's capital Amman said Tuesday it is replacing the orange jumpsuits worn by its city cleaners because of their similarity to those of hostages murdered in Islamic State group videos.

The jumpsuits -- believed to be meant as a symbol of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay -- have been worn by hostages killed by IS in grisly videos, including a Jordanian pilot burned alive last month.

Jordan's King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania will begin a two-day visit to Morocco on Tuesday at the invitation of King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan royal palace announced.

The two monarchs will hold "official talks" during the visit, the palace was quoted as saying by the official MAP news agency on Sunday.

Iran is ready to cooperate with other regional powers in the battle against extremism and terrorism, its foreign minister said Saturday during a meeting with his visiting Jordanian counterpart.

There is a "need to pursue dialogue and cooperation with the countries of the region to fight extremism and terrorism," Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying in remarks that focused on the Islamic State (IS) group.

Energy and Water Minister Arthur Nazarian and the Lebanese Petroleum Administration stressed Wednesday that any data resulting from geological surveys for the country's offshore gas and oil “has not been handed over to any side,” refuting media reports.

This data “is the property of the Lebanese state, and the ministry and the administration are exerting efforts to maintain it and safeguard it in line with the applicable laws,” Nazarian and the LPA said in a joint statement.