The Army Intelligence arrested on Wednesday more than 20 individuals in raids on encampments and residents of Syrian refugees in the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency said.

The army raided encampments and residences of Syrian refugees in the towns of Hosh al-Arab and Hosh Sneid and confiscated several motorbikes, NNA added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Wednesday that his country will do all it can to prevent terrorism from fanning out to Lebanon, the National News Agency said.

“Russia will do everything it can to prevent terrorism from spreading to Lebanon,” said Lavrov prior to a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Jebran Bassil in Moscow.

The army arrested several Syrian nationals in raids on the border town of Wadi Khaled and the northern district of Minieh, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The army carried out raids on the Bqayaa neighborhood in Wadi Khaled and some residential compounds of Syrians where it arrested several, NNA added.

Speaker Nabih Berri has called on the Parliament Bureau on Wednesday to form the committee charged with drafting a new electoral law within a two-month period, the March 14 alliance was informed according to al Joumhouria daily on Tuesday.

The committee will be charged with drafting the law and to find common factors within the existing laws within a two-month period.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq stated on Sunday that the Internal Security Forces Information Branch was able to arrest within 48 hours the whole network that was responsible for the Bourj al-Barajneh blast.

“The Information Branch recorded an exceptional achievement and was able to arrest within 48 hours the entire network that stood behind the Bourj al-Barajneh bombings. The Security Forces are doing well in light of the political disputes,” said Mashnouq in a press conference.

Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged Lebanese factions on Sunday to get rid of the obstacles hampering the election of a president, as he extended condolences over the victims of the Bourj al-Barajneh and Paris bombings that left several dead, the National News Agency said.

“We urge the Christian political forces to seek to remove all the hurdles hampering the election of a president, and to facilitate the process as fast as possible and to agree with the allying political factions on a new electoral law,” said Rahi during the Sunday mass in Bkirki.

Two Individuals were injured overnight in an armed dispute in Tripoli's al-Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp, the state-run National News Agency said on Sunday.

The conflict, that erupted between a man from the al-Shams family and another from the Abou Arab family, inside the camp quickly developed into a shooting that injured both men.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri stated on Sunday that he is eager for a solution that meets the will of the Lebanese in a bid to end the vacuum at the top state post.

“We are eagerly waiting for a course that meets the will of the majority of the Lebanese in order to find a solution for the presidential vacuum,” said Hariri via twitter.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, strongly condemned Saturday the Islamic State group's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people, while also saying that the Bourj al-Barajneh suicide attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs was aimed at creating strife in the country.

The attack on Bourj al-Barajneh was executed by the IS, he declared, while vowing to “seek fronts with the group for a real confrontation with the group.”

Prime Minister Tammam Salam held an urgent security meeting on Friday over the backdrop of the twin bombings that targeted Bourj al-Barajneh south of Beirut a day earlier, the National News Agency said.

Several Ministers attended the meeting including Defense Samir Moqbel, Finance Ali Hassan Khalil, Health Wael Abou Faour, Interior Nouhad al-Mashnouq and Justice Ashraf Rifi in addition to Army Commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji, Higher Defense Council chief Mohammed Khair, Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous, Lebanese Army Intelligence Chief Brig. Gen. Edmond Fadel, Information Branch chief Brig. Gen. Imad Othman, State Prosecutor Judge Samir Hammoud, and Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr.