Heavy gunfire was reported in the northern city of Tripoli on Tuesday as tension escalated between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh after the army began removing barricades in the rival areas.

According to the state-run National News Agency, the gunshots prompted schools to suspend classes for the day, fearing any escalations.

A soldier was wounded Friday evening when a hand grenade was hurled at an army post in the northern city of Tripoli.

“Unknown assailants lobbed a hand grenade at an army post in the al-Ghoraba area in Tripoli, which wounded a soldier in the leg,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Three people were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting in al-Zahriyeh area in the northern city of Tripoli.

"An unknown assailant fired gunshots at Samir Rustom in al-Zahriyeh in the afternoon, wounding him in the leg,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Only a few hours after detained Qaida-linked militant Naim Abbas made his confessions, the army started raiding arms depots in the al-Dibbiyeh and al-Saadiyat areas, where it seized explosives, rockets and fake IDs.

“Abbas is the one who told interrogators about the two (booby-trapped) cars that were seized in (Beirut's) Corniche al-Mazraa and (Bekaa's) Arsal, in addition to a warehouse in al-Saadiyat,” which lies on the coast linking Beirut to Sidon, LBCI television reported.

The Tripoli headquarters of Libya's Alassema privately owned television channel was attacked early Wednesday, with three powerful blasts heard, an Agence France Presse journalist said.

A source at the broadcaster said three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the building, and that a guard was lightly wounded.

Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau detained a Syrian national allegedly involved in last year's deadly mosque bombings in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The NNA said that the Intelligence Bureau raided the house of 31-year-old Jamil Aziz al-Hassan in the northern region of Anfeh and arrested him.

Several roads were blocked Monday in the northern city of Tripoli in protest at remarks voiced by a cleric from the Msheik family that were deemed insulting to Islam's second Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab.

“The Hariri Project-Qobbeh road has been blocked with burning tires in protest at remarks against (detained cleric) Omar al-Atrash that were voiced Sunday during a news bulletin,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Unknown assailants on Tuesday fired gunshots at a resident of the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli.

"Ghazi Abbas Mahmoud was wounded by gunshots in front of Tripoli's Shahine Hospital where he works,” LBCI television said.

A money-changer was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday by gunmen in al-Baddawi region in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Thieves reportedly stole 30 million Syrian pound and $600,000 from Bassam Samih al-Ayyoubi at 7:00 a.m.

One person was killed and another injured in gunbattles that rocked the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday night, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said Sunday that Omar Hmaidan succumbed to his injures, while another person from the Habib family was wounded in the clashes that pitted rival families in the city's internal markets.