The Lebanese delegation to the Islamic conference taking place in Turkey this week is expected to confront attempts to label Hizbullah a terrorist group and recommendations to help Azerbaijan put the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region under its control.

The Lebanese delegation, led by Prime Minister Tammam Salam, will try to stop labeling Hizbullah a terrorist organization at the two-day Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit that takes place Thursday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is expected to discuss with the Ambassadors of the Gulf Cooperation Council the status of Lebanese expatriates in Gulf states, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.

The newspaper quoted sources as saying that the Cardinal will invite the diplomats to Bkirki on Thursday as part of routine meetings that he holds with the representatives of regional and international powers.

Australian government was providing top-level consular support to an Australian television crew facing charges after being caught up in a mother's bungled child-snatching attempt in Lebanon, Australia's prime minister said on Wednesday.

An Australian mother, a four-member TV crew from Nine Network, two British agents from the Britain-based Child Abduction Recovery International company, known as CARI, and two Lebanese men have been in police custody since two Lebanese-Australian siblings Lahala, 6, and Noah, 4, were snatched from a South Beirut bus stop last week in a bid to smuggle them out of the country.

U.S. authorities have said that an Ohio man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge related to the sale of 300 guns, including 11 destined for Beirut.

Forty-eight-year-old Richfield Township resident Timothy Cassinger pleaded guilty Tuesday in Akron to a single count of unlicensed gun dealing.

A man was arrested Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli on charges of communicating with the extremist Islamic State group and attempting to assassinate a Lebanese citizen, LBCI television reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri held talks Tuesday in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sidelines of his participation in the works of the 23rd conference of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union.

The cabinet held a regular meeting on Tuesday during which it called for tenders to meet the needs of the airport, but failed to resolve the dispute over the general directorate of state security.

Information Minister Ramzi Jreij told reporters that the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will be tasked with calling for tenders for the Rafik Hariri International Airport.

A senior Palestinian official with the mainstream Fatah Movement was killed on Tuesday in a car bombing in the southern city of Sidon.

Reports said that Fathi Zaidan died and four others, including two bodyguards, were injured in the blast near Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp.

A contractor said Tuesday that he negotiated with an Australian television network to snatch two Lebanese-Australian children from their father's family in Beirut but the network chose a cheaper option.

Col Chapman, who describes himself as a child recovery specialist, said executives at the Nine Network's "60 Minutes" program told him to "sharpen his pencil" when he quoted them 150,000 Australian dollars ($114,000) late last year to get the children Lahala, 6, and Noah, 4, out of Lebanon.

Public Works Minister Ghazi Zoaiter expected the cabinet to approve on Tuesday the necessary funding to improve security at Rafik Hariri International Airport despite the insistence of Christian ministers to resolve the controversy on the State Security agency first.

Zoaiter told al-Mustaqbal daily that he agrees with Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on the importance of resolving the security of the airport amid claims of misunderstanding between them.