After witnessing a feverish time period of suicide bombings and booby-trapped cars that created havoc among the citizens, Lebanon seems to be 90 percent free from this fear, media reports said on Saturday.

“As the result of the cabinet formation, dismantling of terrorist networks and better control of the border and the decline of political mobilization and sectarianism, Lebanon is currently 90 percent distant from the fear of booby-trapped cars and random bombings,” well informed security sources told As Safir daily.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq has said that a security plan for Beirut is expected to witness light in June as another cabinet minister stressed that no party wants to create chaos.

Al-Mashnouq told Beirut MPs that the capital will see more security measures in the coming days to arrest wrongdoers, according to al-Liwaa newspaper published on Wednesday.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq lashed out at the resistance on Tuesday, saying that the arms of Hizbullah should be removed from the country's political equation.

“I believe that we surpassed the period of the resistance. It became a regional power that even the Lebanese don't have the decision whether to use it or not,” Mashnouq said in an interview with the Saudi al-Watan newspaper.

A number of fugitives have turned themselves in to the army in the northern city of Tripoli while a man wanted on multiple arrest warrants has been arrested.

"As part of the continued security measures, army forces raided the hideouts of several fugitives in the city of Tripoli," the Army Command said in a statement on Monday.

Islamist cleric Omar Bakri was arrested on Sunday in the Mount Lebanon region of Aley, reported the National News Agency.

It said that the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau arrested the cleric in his residence, located in al-Basateen Street, at dawn on Sunday.

Three suspects handed themselves over to the army intelligence in the northern city of Tripoli, the military command said in a communique on Wednesday.

It identified the suspects as Talal Mustafa al-Issa, Khaled Jamal al-Rahi and Mahmoud Mustafa al-Hallaq.

Eight soldiers were injured at dawn Tuesday when their patrol came under an armed attack in the northern city of Tripoli, the military announced.

It said in a communique that soldiers were carrying out raids to arrest the assailants.

Inmate Elias Hassan escaped at dawn Friday from al-Salam hospital in the northern city of Tripoli despite being under a heavy supervision.

However, the National News Agency reported that Hassan fled al-Qobbeh prison at 3:00 am on Friday.

An Internal Security Forces unit raided on Wednesday a depot in Abi Samra neighborhood in the northern city of Tripoli and seized a large arms cache, the National News Agency reported.

ISF commander in Tripoli General Bassam al-Ayoubi announced that the depot contained rocket-propelled grenades, Energa-type rockets, various types of grenades.

Jordan's ambassador to Libya was freed and flown home on Tuesday, a month after being kidnapped, in an exchange for a Libyan jihadist jailed in Jordan for plotting bomb attacks.

A Jordanian minister told AFP that ambassador Fawaz Aitan had been released, and that the jihadist would serve out the rest of his life prison sentence in his homeland under an extradition agreement ratified on Thursday.