U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the involvement of Hizbullah and other Lebanese fighters in the war in Iraq and Yemen puts more dangers on Lebanon.

In his report to the Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1559, Ban also said that the participation of Lebanese nationals in the conflict in Syria is in violation of Lebanon's dissociation policy.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reportedly formed a small committee to follow up the pledges made during international conferences to help Lebanon confront the Syrian refugee burden.

An Nahar daily said on Thursday that Ban's decision came after Prime Minister Tammam Salam expressed frustration in New York last week at the international community’s procrastination in providing the required aid.

A national dialogue session scheduled for Thursday has been called off and the next session will be held on October 26, state-run National News Agency reported after Wednesday's session ended at the parliament.

“I submitted my paper on the characteristics of the next president in a bid to reconcile viewpoints. We won't be able to elect a president without a 'full package',” said Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat after leaving the dialogue session.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri hit back Wednesday at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah over recent anti-Saudi remarks, accusing him of “reversing the facts” and “ingratitude.”

“The remarks attributed to Hizbullah's secretary-general on Saudi Arabia's role in the July War are the peak of reversing the facts and ingratitude,” Hariri tweeted.

A Beirut judge issued on Wednesday an indictment demanding the death penalty against the murderer of George al-Rif, reported the National News Agency.

It said that Judge Charbel Rizk made the indictment against detainee Tariq Yatim for stabbing Rif in July.

Several soldiers were injured on Wednesday in shelling on the outskirts of the northern Beqaa Valley of Ras Baalbek, the National News Agency reported.

An army position in the neighborhood of Tallet Jarash came under shelling slightly, injuring five of its members.

A meeting was reportedly held on Tuesday between Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb and Hizbullah's top security official Wafiq Safa to collaborate on finding a landfill location in Bekaa in light of the aggravating trash management crisis.

The meeting between the two men was meant to find a “security and environmentally safe” location for a sanitary landfill in Bekaa, reports said.

There was growing optimism on Wednesday on the controversial issue of military promotions amid efforts exerted by top officials to avert a showdown among rivals next week.

As Safir daily quoted sources as saying that the cabinet could convene on Thursday, a sign that the efforts aimed at resolving the promotions crisis have made progress.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of killing the Lebanese during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006 and expressed pessimism on the political situation of the country.

Riyadh “killed us in the 2006 July war,” and is “responsible for all the killing in the region,” Nasrallah said.

Unknown gunmen fired heavy- and medium-caliber weapons Tuesday from the Ras al-Ain area towards Baalbek in connection with Sunday's deadly shooting in the northeastern city, state-run National News Agency reported.

The shelling was targeted at “the house of the father of Nader Yaghi,” where the latter's funeral was being held after he was killed in Sunday's incident.