A Syrian man has conspired to murder his wife in collaboration with a compatriot with the aim of marrying another woman and achieving financial gain, the Internal Security Forces announced on Wednesday.

“Today at 4:10 am, an Infiniti SUV was involved in a shooting on the Fast Metn Highway,” the ISF said in a statement.

General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim revealed that the negotiations with the al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front over the release of the servicemen abducted in 2014 are over.

He said: “We have agreed with al-Nusra on the mechanism of a prisoner exchange, as well as its time and location and other details.”

The Maronite Bishops Council condemned on Wednesday the ongoing vacuum in the presidency, reiterating Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi's call for officials to name their final presidential candidates.

The council urged after its monthly meeting “politicians to adhere to the constitution and head to parliament to elect a new head of state.”

President Barack Obama has warned that any possible rejection by the Congress of the Iran nuclear deal, would force the U.S. to attack Iran, a move that could lead to a Hizbulalh retaliation against Israel.

"It would be destructive both to the U.S. and to Israel," Obama told Jewish leaders on Tuesday, according to Israeli media reports.

The Lebanese army arrested at dawn Wednesday several people suspected of involvement in celebratory gunfire in northern Lebanon that has injured a female doctor, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said the arrests took place during raids that troops carried out in the town of Ehden.

The government failed on Wednesday to agree on the appointment of high-ranking military and security officials, mainly the person who will succeed Army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Walid Salman, who is set to retire this week.

Defense Minister Samir Moqbel proposed several names for the army leadership, the Chief of Staff and the Higher Relief Council but the rival ministers failed to agree on them.

Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated that he backed the appointment of top security and military officials but would not reject the extension of their terms if the government failed to reach an agreement on the controversial issue.

“I am with the appointments … but if there were no consensus, then I would back the continued functioning of the institutions, meaning extension,” Berri, whose remarks were published in al-Joumhouria daily on Wednesday, told his visitors in Ain el-Tineh.

A Lebanese army drone has crashed in the eastern Bekaa Valley as a result of a malfunction, the military and the state-run National News Agency said late Tuesday.

“As a result of a technological failure, a Lebanese army reconnaissance plane hit electricity cables and crashed in the plains of the town of Iaat in the Bekaa at 22:30 pm,” said a communique issued by the military command.

The old airport road outside Beirut was blocked Tuesday evening in protest at an electricity crisis that has been engulfing the country since last week.

“A number of young men from the Bir Hassan region blocked the old airport road outside al-Rawda High School with burning tires and trash dumpsters,” state-run National News Agency reported.

The body of a 3-year-old child who went missing Firday on Sidon's public beach was found Tuesday off the coast of the Jounieh region.

State-run National News Agency said an army patrol found Mahdi Salameh's corpse floating on the water's surface around three kilometers off the Jounieh Gulf military complex.