Hundreds of protesters have rallied in the Lebanese capital demanding that Islamist prisoners be part of a discussed general amnesty.

The rally in central Beirut Sunday was attended by hundreds of families of Islamist prisoners. They were pressing the government to include their relatives in a general amnesty expected to come ahead of the country's first election in ten years.

Mustaqbal Movement secretary-general and his family escaped unharmed Sunday when a car he was driving caught fire.

Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to parliament this spring in its first vote in nearly 10 years, the country's first women's affairs minister says.

The number of Syrians who have died trying to flee their war-torn country into neighboring Lebanon during a snowstorm has risen to at least 13, the United Nations has said.

Saudi Arabia "will not interfere" in the upcoming parliamentary elections and it is only concerned with Lebanon's stability, MP Ammar Houry of al-Mustaqbal bloc said on Sunday.

The Justice Ministry is "affiliated" with President Michel Aoun and his political party and cannot offer a neutral recommendation on a disputed decree that has sparked a row between the president and Speaker Nabih Berri, Ain el-Tineh has said.

Speaker Nabih Berri “waged the fiercest campaign” against Foreign Minister Jebarn Bassil and his request to amend the electoral system stressing he won't allow any changes and assuring that the country will stage timely polls, al-Joumhouria daily reported Saturday.

Bodies of two Syrians were found dead on Saturday raising the toll to 15 dead while trying to flee war-torn country into Lebanon trying to cross the mountainous frontier between the two countries.

President Michel Aoun has reportedly "refrained" from signing a decree launching preparations for the upcoming parliamentary polls because it “did not bear the signature of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Jebran Bassil,” An Nahar daily reported Saturday.

Lebanon's Higher Defense Council convened on Friday and announced that the country will take all the possible measures to prevent Israel from violating U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 through its controversial border wall plan.

Lebanese authorities say the wall would go through 13 points disputed by Lebanon.