Unknown assailants opened gunfire overnight at the office of owner of al-Jadeed TV Tahsin Khayyat in Beirut's Bir Hassan neighborhood, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The agency said that the shooting inflicted material damages on the building where the office is located.

The Lebanese army has upped its security measures recently to counter any acts of sabotage that could be carried out by terror groups, a senior security source told al-Joumhouria daily on Wednesday.

The daily added that Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji will issue his Order of the Day marking Army Day on the first of August. Qahwaji will pinpoint the elements of danger that could be threatening Lebanon and will also issue guidance to the military force to maintain high alert to counter any potential menace.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam and the Lebanese delegation attended the Arab League summit in the Mauritanian capital on Monday but were not expected to spend the night there, the Associated Press reported on Monday, shortly after Health Minister Wael Abu Faour questioned the impoverished African nation's ability to host top delegations.

The brother of Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, turned himself in to the Lebanese army in the southern city of Sidon on Monday, the National News Agency reported.

Fugitive Abou al-Abed Shmandur, the brother of Shaker, has turned himself in to the Lebanese army intelligence at the Taamir checkpoint, NNA said.

Electricite Du Liban contract workers staged sit-ins on Monday in various Lebanese regions pushing a longstanding demand for their full-time employment, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Protesting contract employees in the southern city of Tyre staged a protest inside the company's headquarters. Meanwhile around 5 staff members continued their work normally, NNA said.

Municipal chief of the restive northeastern border town of Arsal Bassel al-Hujeiri said on Monday that the municipal police and residents of the town will make sure that a curfew decision on Syrian refugees that will kick off tonight is well respected.

The Lebanese Army launched security patrols on Saturday in the restive northeastern border town of Arsal and on the entrances of the refugee encampments, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

“Since the early hours on Saturday, the army units carried out mechanized and infantry patrols inside the town and around its neighborhoods including the entrances leading to the Syrian refugee encampments,” said NNA.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Lebanese emigrants in Germany were unharmed in the terrorist attacks that targeted Munich a day earlier.

“There are no Lebanese nationals among the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted Munich on Friday,” said a ministry statement.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel met with Popular Bloc leader Myriam Skaff, the widow of late Zahle politician Elie Skaff , after a rift in relations between the two parties, media office of Gemayel said on Saturday.

Gemayel visited Skaff in her place of residence in Yarzeh and offered his condolences on the death of her husband, marking a breakthrough in ties between the two after an eight-year boycott.

Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh will reportedly withdraw his candidacy for the presidential post in favor of founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun, As Safir daily said on Saturday.

Franjieh told French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault that he is ready to move back from his nomination for the head of state in favor of Aoun if Lebanon's interest requires that, according to the daily.