Russia opposes any United Nations Security Council resolution that would permit military strikes against the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, a senior diplomat said Friday.

"Russia opposes any resolution of the U.N. Security Council indicating the probability of the use of force, (or) any resolution that could be used for military action against Syria," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the ITAR-TASS news agency.

UNIFIL commander Maj.-Gen. Paolo Serra said on Thursday that investigations are ongoing regarding Labbouneh blast that wounded four Israeli soldiers, in reply to Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's remarks.

He considered the incident “dangerous,” pointing out that it should not occur again.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour filed last week a complaint through Lebanon's mission to the United Nations against Israel's violation of the Blue Line, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

According to the news agency, the complaint came in light of a landmine blast along the northern border with Lebanon that injured four Israeli soldiers.

President Michel Suleiman urged on Thursday the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL leaderships to expand the investigation into the infiltration of an Israeli patrol into southern Lebanon.

Suleiman's request came in an attempt to study in detail the circumstances of the infiltration that took place early Wednesday to add the information to a complaint that Lebanese authorities plan to file with the U.N. Security Council.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has warned that Lebanon would confront Israelis “bats” with landmines after four soldiers were injured following an incursion into Lebanese territories early Wednesday.

“They have their bats and we have landmines,” Mansour told As Safir newspaper published Thursday.

Gunmen from Syria infiltrated a disused army outpost in the Israeli-occupied area of the Golan Heights just beyond the ceasefire line, a military spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The incident, which occurred overnight, saw an unspecified number of Syrian gunmen entering the position and firing towards an Israeli army patrol, which returned fire.

A U.N. envoy said Tuesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Iraq in four months and that the country risks stumbling onto a "dangerous path" to disarray.

Martin Kobler, the outgoing U.N. special representative to Iraq, told the Security Council that political tensions and fallout from the Syria conflict have made the past four months among the bloodiest of the last five years.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly stressed on Wednesday that the best way to safeguard Lebanon’s stability during this period was through reinforcing and respecting Lebanon’s state institutions.

He said: “In this context the delay in forming a new government is a matter of concern.”

British Ambassador to Lebanon Tom Fletcher announced on Tuesday that his country will provide Lebanon with a financial assistance to fortify its army's capabilities and to help it confront the Syrian refugees crisis.

Fletcher said after a meeting with President Michel Suleiman at the Baabda Palace that his country will supply Lebanon with $20 million to beef up its army's abilities and with $75 million to support the state with the crisis of the Syrian refugees.

The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned a car bomb attack in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday and raised fears about the growing spread of the Syria conflict.

The 15-nation council renewed appeals for all groups to stay out of the Syrian war despite growing cross border attacks in a statement released after a meeting on mounting tensions in Lebanon.