Three rockets were fired on Monday from the eastern mountain range and landed in the Bekaa valley, various media outlets reports.

They said that the rockets landed in a field in the Hermel area.

Municipal council member of the town of Dekwaneh Antoine Sfeir, has been freed on Saturday after he was kidnapped a day earlier, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Sfeir was abducted in Dekweneh by a man from the Dandash family and has been taken to the Bekaa town of Hermel.

A member of the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front group was arrested in the northeastern border town of Arsal for having links to various bombings that have taken place in Lebanon in recent months, reported the National News Agency on Friday.

Ahmed al-Atrash, also known as Nisr Arsal, was arrested by the army intelligence.

The Lebanese army said Tuesday it has arrested two men for the possession of weapons and ammunition in the eastern Hermel district.

A military unit apprehended on Monday night two Lebanese – Hassan al-Hajj Hassan and Ahmed Hussein Tleis – in the area of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali, said a communique issued by the army command.

Residents of the Bekaa Valley are reportedly demanding to take up arms, fearing an expected attack by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on New Year's eve.

According to Ad Diyar newspaper published on Sunday, the residents of Brital, Younine, al-Labweh, Nabi Othman, Fakiha, Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa are calling on the state to arm them to foil any attack by terrorists.

A soldier and a fugitive were injured Wednesday as an army patrol foiled a drug deal in the northern Bekaa region of Hermel.

A soldier was killed and three others were injured on Saturday after their car flipped over in the Bekaa town of Hermel due to bad weather.

The state-run National News Agency reported that three soldiers were critically wounded.

A number of rockets were fired on Monday from the Eastern Mountain Range, reported the National News Agency.

It said that three rockets landed on the outskirts of the Bekaa city of al-Hermel.

Two rockets landed near the Bekaa town of Hermel on Wednesday after being fired from the Eastern Mountain Range on the Lebanese-Syrian border, where clashes are still ongoing between Syrian rebels and Hizbullah fighters.

“Two rockets fell in the vicinity of the town of Hermel after they were launched from the Eastern Mountain Range,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Armed clashes erupted Wednesday between two families in the Bekaa town of Hermel, sparking panic among the residents of the region.

“Clashes with light- and medium-caliber weapons broke out between members of the Allaw and Nassereddine clans over familial disputes,” state-run National News Agency reported.