Two rockets fired from the Eastern Mountain Belt landed in the Bekaa town of Brital without causing any injuries, the military institution announced on Saturday evening.
“The rockets landed near the village's al-Hajjeh school,” the Army Command said in a communique, adding that no injuries were reported.

Former Prime Minister Rashid al-Solh passed away on Friday evening.
Al-Solh, 88 at the time of his death, started his political career in 1964 when he was elected as a Beirut MP to parliament.

One of the most wanted drug dealers was arrested on Friday evening in the southern city of Sidon, the state-run National News Agency reported.
"A force from the Anti-Drug Bureau in the South managed to arrest one of the most wanted outlaws accused of promoting and dealing with drugs,” the NNA said.

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani announced on Friday evening that Sunday, June 29, is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
Saudi Arabia had confirmed earlier in the day that Saturday will be the last day of the month of Shaaban on the Islamic calendar, after observers failed to sight the crescent of Ramadan.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc head MP Fouad Saniora stated on Friday that resisting terrorist operations could be achieved through avoiding the expansion of the Syrian and Iraqi turmoil into Lebanon.
"We have condemned and deplored (the recent) terrorist operations that have nothing to do with religion, ethics or with high standards and morals which the Lebanese have always held onto,” Saniora said after meeting with local delegations in the Hilaliyeh neighborhood of the southern city of Sidon.

A quantity of ammunition was seized on Thursday as army troops raided the house of a fugitive in the town of Fneideq in northern Akkar.
"An army force raided the house of Ali Mohammed Kanaan in Fneideq,” the military institution said in a communique.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat praised on Thursday the state's “strength and its ability to thwart all bombing plans.”
"The experience has proven once again that the Lebanese state, and despite all divisions and the complicated political conditions, is strong and capable of thwarting all bombing plots that aim at undermining stability and security,” Jumblat said in a released statement.

The United Arab Emirates urged its citizens on Saturday to refrain from traveling to Lebanon citing the country's “shaky security situation” as a cause.
"Emiratis currently present in Lebanon must leave the country immediately,” UAE's charge d'affaires Hamad Mohammed al-Junaibi said.

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stressed during their Paris meeting on the “necessity to strengthen joint action” to secure holding the pending constitutional junctures, a statement released by the PSP revealed on Saturday.
The leaders highlighted the importance of holding these junctures, on top of them the presidential elections “to avoid extending vacuum (in the presidency) and to preserve the institutional work in this critical phase,” the statement detailed.

The Internal Security Forces apprehended on Saturday the members of a prostitution ring in the Mount Lebanon town of Brummana, all of whom are Syrian nationals.
"The judicial police's Morals Protection Bureau obtained information on the presence of a ring that practices and facilitates prostitution in the Brummana area,” the ISF said in a statement.
