A Yemen Red Crescent Society volunteer was fighting for his life on Friday a few days after he was injured by shelling while on duty in Yemen's Maa'rib Governorate, a joint statement issued by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.

Another three volunteers are in stable condition after they were wounded by shrapnel in the same attack on Monday, it said.

Around 1,100 Lebanese and Syrian nationals will be banned from renewing their residence permits in Kuwait for having direct links to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti al-Qabas daily reported on Friday.

A well-informed security source told the daily on condition of anonymity that a list “of those banned from renewing their residency permits” in Kuwait will include the names of “blocked” 1,100 Lebanese and Syrians for having direct links to Hizbullah.

A group of young men from the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh have joined the ranks of the extremist Islamic State group, raising the number of new members from Lebanon to 14, al-Akhbar daily reported on Friday.

A source close to the IS confirmed to the daily that the group has called these youth to follow security training sessions in order to task them afterward with missions inside Lebanon.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc on Thursday slammed Saudi Arabia's labeling of Hizbullah as a “terrorist” group as one of the “most ridiculous” decisions that have been taken by the kingdom.

“The Saudi regime's designation of Hizbullah as a terrorist organization is one of the most ridiculous innovations of this flabby regime that has lost its balance,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

The waste contractor for Greater Beirut, Sukleen and Sukomi stressed that the increase in the “value of their contracts” came as the result of the expansion in size and geographical scope of their work in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, slamming media reports questioning their integrity in handling the waste management file.

“The expansion in the size and geographical area of our work in the capital Beirut and Mount Lebanon was the main reason behind the increase in the contract work,” a statement by Sukleen said on Thursday.

Lebanon has ranked 93rd in a list of more than 150 countries in the 2016 World Happiness Report.

Denmark, closely followed by Switzerland, is again the happiest country in the world while crisis-torn Syria and Burundi are the most miserable, said the United Nations, which published the first such study in 2012.

Telecommunications Minister Butros Harb stated on Wednesday that violations against the country's sovereignty and its national security are unacceptable, assuring that perpetrators behind the illegal internet networks will be punished.

“We will not accept violations against our national sovereignty and security, nor will we accept infringing on the privacy rights of the Lebanese. These crimes will not go unpunished,” Harb stated in a press conference.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will tell his Russian counterpart on Wednesday that any future agreement in Syria must not end up strengthening Hizbullah and and its main backer Iran, a senior Israeli official said.

The unidentified official said the main goal of Rivlin’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow will be to discuss the international negotiations taking place in Geneva on an agreement to end the fighting in Syria and find a political solution for the war-torn country.

An Israeli spy device was found on Tuesday adjacent to a Lebanese army position to the east of the southern border town of Markaba.

The transmission and photographic device was found planted near the blue line opposite a helicopter airstrip and a Lebanese army post in the area, Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) said.

Hollywood star and Special Envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie arrived in Lebanon on Monday night to mark the fifth anniversary of the eruption of the Syrian conflict.

She paid a visit on Tuesday to several Syrian refugee camps in the country, including those in the eastern Bekaa region of Saadnayel, where she gave a press conference under the pouring rain.