The Israeli army on Wednesday abducted Lebanese shepherd Ismail Saab from the border town of Shebaa, the National News Agency said.

“Following contacts conducted by UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) and the international Red Cross, it turned out that he was taken to the occupied Shebaa Farms,” NNA added.

A couple of days before Lebanon launches its general elections, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq urged voters and candidates on Wednesday to “abide by the law” to ensure a smooth electoral process.

Around 248 administrative government employees and professors, tasked by the government to head the polling stations on Sunday’s general elections, prepare to cast their votes two days earlier at the Zgharta Serail, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Hizbullah has denied Morocco’s accusations that the party has been delivering weapons to the separatist Polisario Front in Western Sahara, after it severed relations with Iran over the allegations.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is urging high turnout in Lebanon's parliamentary elections due on May 6.

In a speech to supporters in the eastern city of Baalbek on Tuesday, Nasrallah says the group needs "political protection" against those conspiring against it, and that "this protection is afforded by your votes."

Customs police at the Rafik Hariri International Airport on Tuesday, thwarted a drug smuggling bid and seized six kilograms of drugs carefully hidden inside shoe soles, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said “it is best” to re-elect Nabih Berri, leader of AMAL Movement, as parliament speaker, adding that it is “still unclear who shall be the right person for the premiership.”

President Michel Aoun addressed Lebanese workers on Labor Day assuring them that efforts are underway to protect them from foreign labor competition.

“Efforts are being exerted to protect workers from foreign labor competition,” the Presidency media office quoted the President as saying on Tuesday.

Iran's state-run media on Monday mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest allegations that Tehran once pursued nuclear weapons.

In a presentation Monday that made use of large visual aids, Netanyahu said Israeli intelligence had uncovered a trove of documents from Iran's "nuclear archives."

Israel on Monday closed its airspace near Syria's border and over the occupied Golan Heights amid concerns over possible retaliation by Tehran to recent strikes that killed Iranians in Syria, Al-Jazeera TV said.

“The closure of Israel's airspace on Syria's border will continue until the end of next month,” Al-Jazeera reported.