Police and the army have arrested Lebanese, Gulf and Syrian nationals having hundreds of thousands of dollars in their possession for the purpose of buying arms, As Safir daily reported on Monday.

The ISF arrested a couple of weeks ago a Lebanese man in the northern city of Tripoli. He had 200,000 dollars in his possession, it said.

An unknown assailant tossed a hand grenade on Sunday night toward an army checkpoint in al-Mitein in Tripoli, hitting the outer wall of the position and causing no injuries, reported the National News Agency.

Afterwards, NNA stated that: “The army closed the roads of al-Rifa, al-Omari and al-Hariri project in Tripoli as a precaution after a hand grenade was thrown at its position in al-Mitein.”

Ousama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi will be evacuating in the next few hours a mosque they used to frequently go to, and that is after efforts by the clerics of Tripoli.

“During the next few hours Abdullah bin Masood mosque in Bab al-Tabbani will be evacuated,” the National News Agency said.

The army detained on Saturday fugitive soldier Mustapha Seif in the Wadi Nahle area in the northern port city of Tripoli's al-Beddawi neighborhood.

Media reports said that an army unit raided the residence of Seif, who is also known as Abou Alaa, and arrested him.

International and regional countries are “gravely concerned” of attempts by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to create a safe passage to the sea in northern Lebanon.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Saturday, Arab and Western countries voiced concern, during security meetings held in various regional countries, on an ISIL scheme to take control of a swath of territory in Lebanon in order to reach the sea.

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed concern on Saturday over the ongoing attempts by terrorists to overrun towns in the Eastern Mountain Range and to cause chaos in the northern port city of Tripoli.

“If the Lebanese remain united, then they (terrorists) will not be able to achieve much,” Berri said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper.

Army chief Gen. Jean Qahwaji has accused the Islamic State group of seeking to ignite civil war in Lebanon and of relying on sleeper cells in the northern district of Akkar and the port city of Tripoli.

In an interview with the French daily Le Figaro, Qahwaji said the terrorists were counting on the cells in northern Lebanon and on the backing of some Sunni figures to achieve their objectives.

There was cautious calm in the northern city of Tripoli on Friday morning hours after gunmen attacked army posts, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said masked gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at the military posts in Talaat al-Omari and Haret al-Saydeh.

The Lebanese army and security forces expressed readiness to launch a swift operation in the northern city of Tripoli to arrest the group of two notorious fugitives Shadi al-Mawlawi and Osama Mansour.

“If the endeavors of Muslim clerics failed to end this phenomenon, then the army and security forces will intervene,” security sources said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday.

A young man who hails from the northern city of Tripoli has been killed fighting alongside extremist groups in Iraq, where fierce battles are taking place between the army, allied militias and the Islamic State group.

“Young man Khaled Ahmed Ahdab, aka Abu Hamza, has been killed while fighting in Iraq,” LBCI reported on Tuesday, noting that he hails from Tripoli.