Three soldiers and three fugitives were killed Thursday during a Lebanese Army raid aimed at arresting durg barons in the Bekaa town of Hawrtaala, the army said.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday warned the United States against seeing to stir “chaos” in Lebanon, warning that such an upheaval would spread to the entire region.

BLOM Bank, Creditbank and Saradar Bank have agreed to cooperate with Judge Ghada Aoun in her request to lift banking secrecy off several accounts to facilitate her probe into the suspected illegal transfer of funds abroad by bankers, businessmen and politicians, a media report said on Thursday.

Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim on Thursday pressed charges against 22 money changers of whom 18 are in custody.

A magnitude-4.6 earthquake struck the Syrian coast at 1:15 pm Thursday and was felt in Lebanon, the director of Lebanon’s National Center for Geophysics, Marleine Brax, said.

The U.S. treasury has accused Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh of having links with Hezbollah, American sources told al-Hadath news interactive channel.

"The U.S. treasury has revealed a link between Hezbollah's financiers and the Central Bank," the sources said, adding that Washington is "one step away" from imposing sanctions on Salameh.

Protestors, on Thursday, blocked roads in Badaro, burned tires and tried to smash the windows of some banks in the area, as banks closed their doors to customers amid an unprecedented economic crisis.

The angry protestors set fire in front of Fransabank and Bank Audi by burning tires. The fire was later extinguished by firefighters of the Beirut Fire Brigade.

The Lebanese pound on Thursday hit a record low against the dollar on the black market, as the country's grinding political and economic crises show no signs of abating.

The pound has lost more than 95 percent of its value against the greenback since the start of the economic crisis in 2019.

Caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayyad has stressed that gasoline will not be priced in USD.

Responding to a warning from station owners that they would go on strike unless gasoline is priced in USD, Fayyad told LBCI TV that “the Ministry is working on a platform in order to issue more than two price tables per day in order to catch up with the exchange rate fluctuations.”

Demonstrators in northern Lebanon on Wednesday blocked several roads in protest at the unprecedented dollar rate surge and the dire economic situations.