The army detained on Friday five Syrians in raids carried out on the outskirts of the border town of Arsal on charges of participating in training with terrorist groups.

The detained men were apprehended inside Syrian refugee camps in the area, the army said in a communique.

The Internal Security Forces said Friday that two Syrian teenagers have killed their sister in what the state-run National News Agency described as a crime of honor.

The ISF Intelligence Branch found the body of 24-year-old Diala T. near a school in the town of Deddeh in the northern Koura district, NNA said.

Lebanon is faced with the possibility of having two grand muftis after the rival Higher Islamic Councils called on Thursday for a new head to the country's Sunni sect, al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

“There would either be two muftis or ulemas would make a last-minute interference to find a settlement,” al-Akhbar quoted informed sources as saying.

Hizbullah stressed on Friday that it will not intervene in the security situation in Iraq, expressing fear of the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

“Hizbullah has nothing to do with Iraq... Iraq is bigger than the capabilities of the party,” Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Walid Sakariya told al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashbouq considered on Friday that presidential vacuum should not obstruct state institutions, urging rival parties to confront terrorism and fortify the national unity.

“Are we supposed to paralyze the state if we failed to elect a new head of state?” Mashnouq wondered in remarks published in As Safir newspaper.

Kuwaiti Speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim is scheduled to visit Beirut on Friday to discuss with Lebanese officials the crisis of Syrian refugees, al-Liwaa newspaper reported.

During his two-day visit, al-Ghanim will hold talks with Speaker Nabih Berri and tour with Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas encampments of Syrian refugees.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam expected that the ongoing cabinet dispute would reach a breakthrough before its next session, stressing on importance of safeguarding the local situation amid the turmoil in the region.

“I was keen during Thursday's cabinet session to fortify consensus over the mechanism” regulating the government’s work during the ongoing presidential vacuum, Salam said in comments published in As Safir newspaper on Friday.

Speaker Nabih Berri renewed his warning against the paralysis of state institutions and hoped that the move of Jihadists on Baghdad would trigger unity among the Lebanese rival parties to confront any possible repercussion.

In remarks to several local newspapers published on Friday, Berri reiterated his criticism of the MPs boycotting parliamentary sessions.

Minister of Education Elias Bou Saab announced on Thursday evening that classes at the Lebanese University will resume on Friday, after all obstacles in this regard “have been removed.”

"All obstacles have been removed concerning the Lebanese University's issues,” Bou Saab assured during a press conference he held at the Ministry.

The head of Dar al-Fatwa's Islamic Endowments, Sheikh Hisham Khalifeh, called on Thursday for electing a new Grand Mufti in August, but this announcement was met with the opposition of the Higher Islamic Council, that demanded that the elections be held as soon as possible.

Khalifeh said that the elections would be held on August 31 at Dar al-Fatwa's headquarters in Aisha Bakkar.