Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hailed on Saturday the reactivation of efforts with regard to Lebanon's oil and gas wealth, after a dispute over excavation between the Free Patriotic Movement and the AMAL Movement was reportedly settled a day earlier.

“It seems that the oil file which has been pending for years will finally be tackled,” said Jumblat via his Twitter account.

Hizbullah has reportedly destroyed Islamic State group positions entrenched on the outskirts of the border town of Ras Baalbek and al-Zwaytineh, al-Manar TV said on Saturday.

The TV station said that Hizbullah fighters bombarded two positions during the attack and that several were killed and wounded.

Lebanon's security apparatuses are keeping an eye of the encampments of Syrian refugees which they believe provides a shelter for Islamic State members and other terrorist groups.

Security forces have obtained information a couple of months ago which state that the Islamic State group in Syria's al-Reqqa has decided to take advantage of the fragile political situation in Lebanon, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Speaker Nabih Berri urged Lebanon's political forces on Friday to accept an initiative he made to end the political impasse and warned that the due date for the parliamentary elections are growing closer, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

“This is our last chance and time is passing,” Berri told the daily.

The Lebanese army is still in a search operation for an IS member who managed to escape after it had arrested five terrorists a day earlier who planned to carry out attacks in Lebanon, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

The army is closely monitoring the suspect's movements and it is expected that he he will be arrested soon, added the daily.

An ordinary cabinet session chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam convened at the Grand Serail on Thursday and focused on the security issues mainly after the Qaa bombings, without touching on any of the controversial files.

“Salam has assured that the Security Forces maintain readiness levels and capability to confront terrorism,” Information Minister Ramzi Jreij said after the meeting.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri met with Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea late on Wednesday where talks denounced the attacks that targeted the eastern town of al-Qaa and rejected the principle of “autonomous security”, Hariri's media office said on Thursday.

Hariri received Geagea, accompanied by LF media officer Melhem Riachi, over a Suhoor banquet in the Central House in the presence of Hariri's adviser Ghattas Khoury.

An unknown assailant opened gunfire at the vehicle of the Resistance Brigades official in the central Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon without hurting him, the state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday.

The shooter opened fire at the black BMW when the official, Rami Mohammed Hamoura, parked his car near his place of residence in Bar Elias.

The security situation in Lebanon will become more difficult in light of an intensified campaign to eradicate terrorism in the region, As Safir daily reported on Thursday.

The situation is to become harder in light of reports alleging that the terror groups are using new tactics of bringing candidates for the attacks they carry out from outside Lebanon, a related source told the daily on condition of anonymity.

Hizbullah refuses the deployment of UNIFIL forces along Lebanon's border to counter threats from the Syrian and the infiltration of militants from the war-torn country, the Saudi Okaz daily reported on Wednesday.

“Hizbullah has informed political officials that it refuses the calls voiced by several ministers and leaderships demanding the deployment of UNIFIL forces along Lebanon's border with Syria,” well-informed sources told the daily.