A new group of Syrian refugees returned to their country on Sunday, in an operation organized by Lebanon's General Security and coordinated with Syrian authorities.

LBCI television said around 50 people returned to Syria's Moadamiyat al-Sham through the Masnaa border crossing.

Caretaker Minister of Defense Yaacoub Sarraf on Saturday freezed all arms licenses in the province of Baalbek-Hermel until further notice, the National News Agency said.

President Michel Aoun received caretaker Culture Minister Ghattas Khoury at the Baabda Palace where talks focused on the Cabinet formation process and several other issues, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

In light of conflicts lingering between the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement over government shares, LF chief Samir Geagea will likely visit President Michel Aoun (FPM founder) at the Baabda Palace, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Difficulties facing the formation of the new government over ministerial quotas have political objectives, not only related to the size success of each party in the parliamentary elections, but also related to the Free Patriotic Movement’s “aspirations for veto power,” the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily said on Saturday.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Strong Lebanon parliamentary bloc affirmed there will be “no turning back” on the Christian reconciliation with the Lebanese Forces, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

A suggestion to form a 24-member Cabinet instead of 30 has been raised in the last few days as a way to find a solution for “the Christian and Druze representation” that have been reportedly delaying the Cabinet formation process, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily said on Friday.

However, the suggestion, which automatically reduces the number of ministers of the six main political parties, has been dropped under the pretext that all political parties must be represented in the Cabinet which calls for a 30-portfolio Cabinet, a political source following on the formation process told the daily.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim affirmed that more Syrian refugees will be “voluntarily” returning back to their country after several hundreds left the Lebanese border town of Arsal to return home a day earlier, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Two assailants have stabbed and killed a young man late on Wednesday in the southern Hay el-Sellom area for cheering for Germany’s exit from the World Cup games, media reports said on Thursday.

Several hundred Syrian refugees who fled the war ravaging their country and took refuge in the border town of Arsal are expected to return back to their hometowns in the Qalamoun Mountains located northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus.