Two people were wounded in the northern city of Tripoli when unknown assailants hurled a bomb at a shop on Saturday evening.

“Two people were injured when a bomb was hurled at al-Aqqad motorbike shop in Tripoli's Miatayn street,” the state-run National News Agency reported, adding that the wounded were transferred to the city's hospitals for treatment.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati tasked on Friday caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel with establishing a security plan to maintain the situation in the northern city of Tripoli in coordination with the Central Security Council and the army.

“Security violation in Tripoli must end,” Miqati said during a meeting with top security officials and Tripoli figures at the city's Serail.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel expressed relief on Wednesday for the success of the security forces deployment in Beirut's southern suburbs.

“We perceived a good political and security reaction. The important thing is that the security plan works out and achieves security in the area,” Charbel said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.

A suspect held over his links to the twin bombings in the northern city of Tripoli in August confessed that he planned the attack with a Syrian Intelligence officer, revealing that the car used in the al-Salam mosque attack was purchased from a Syrian national from al-Qusayr, reported An Nahar daily on Thursday.

Suspect Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib confessed to planning the attacks with Syrian Intelligence – Palestine branch in Damascus Captain Mohammed Ali and advised him to assassinate Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi who preaches at the Salam mosque, added the daily.

Four people were wounded on Monday when unknown gunmen opened fire on a cafe in the northern city of Tripoli, state-run National News Agency reported.

“Masked gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a cafe owned by Hatem al-Ward in the Tripoli neighborhood of al-Qobbeh, leaving the owner and three people wounded,” NNA said.

The army intervened to contain the situation after four people were wounded in an armed clash between two families in the Tripoli neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh.

“An armed clash erupted between two families in Tripoli's al-Shaarani and gunshots and RPGs are being fired,” OTV reported.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Monday the need for all political powers to cooperate to form a new government that would be capable of tackling several pending issues in light of the “dangerous developments in the region.”

He therefore called on all sides to “adopt the policy of disassociation from the developments in Syria and exert efforts to form a new government.”

A Syrian national was arrested on Saturday on charges of attempting to prepare explosives, reported the National News Agency on Sunday.

It said that the General Security arrested Ahmed Osama al-Toumani near the vegetable market in the Nahr Ibrahim region.

Al-Mustaqbal MP Khaled al-Daher slammed on Thursday the critics of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch, accusing them of serving the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad to defend Iran's project in the region.

“The Lebanese should protect Lebanon by supporting the security forces,” he said at a press conference he held in the northern city of Tripoli.

The March 14 General Secretariat held the Syrian regime responsible for the bombings that rocked the Dahieh area and the city of Tripoli in August, and backed the decision of the Arab League foreign ministers to punish the Syrian regime for using chemical weapons against its own people.

In a statement issued following its weekly meeting on Wednesday, the Secretariat said that the involvement of the Syrian regime in the bombings that targeted the southern district of Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli has been proved, pointing that the vicious schemes come to complement the schemes of Mamlouk-Samaha.