An army soldier was accidentally killed on Tuesday while moving a shell at a shooting and training field near the port of the northern city of Tripoli.

The army said “a soldier was martyred when a military unit was dismantling an explosive device in Tripoli's Free Zone.”

Security forces located the whereabouts of notorious Tripoli militants Shadi al-Mawlawi and Osama Mansour, media reports said on Monday.

According to the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, security forces are determined to detain the two fugitives, who took the Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood of the northern city of Tripoli as their hideout.

Dozens of soldiers trying to defend an airport in Libya's second city were killed and scores wounded in bombings and clashes with Islamists, the army said Friday as the U.N. threatened sanctions.

Libya has been sliding into chaos since longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi was toppled in an uprising three years ago, with interim authorities confronted by powerful militias that fought to oust him.

Army chief General Jean Qahwaji on Thursday said he expects the eruption of a “new battle” with jihadist militants in the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Arsal, revealing that the army has “detected” the presence of a terror cell in the northern city of Tripoli.

“The Lebanese army has reinforced its deployment on Arsal's hills and isolated the town from its outskirts, in order to besiege the gunmen and prevent them from receiving any supplies,” Qahwaji said in an interview with Sky News Arabia.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a detainee and 10 fugitives, including notorious Tripoli militants Shadi al-Mawlawi and Osama Mansour.

According to state-run National News Agency, they were charged with “belonging to an armed terrorist group in order to stage terrorist acts, and holing up at a Tripoli mosque with the aim of preparing bombs and explosive devices to target Lebanese army troops in the area.”

Extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are seeking to carry out security operations in northern Lebanon, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Thursday.

Western diplomatic sources told the daily that western intelligence obtained information that ISIL-linked groups, present in the northern city of Tripoli, are preparing to carry out these attacks in an attempt to seize northern border areas.

The Maronite Bishops Council rejected on Wednesday “necessary legislation” at parliament in light of the ongoing vacuum in the presidency.

It said after its monthly meeting: “The election of a president should be a priority above all else.”

The Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Malek al-Shaar revealed on Wednesday that preparations are underway to hold a Christian-Islamic conference in the northern city of Tripoli.

He pointed out that contacts are underway to prepare for the conference that will include prominent religious and political figures in the city.

A man arrested Thursday on charges of forming a terrorist cell in the northern city of Tripoli has been referred to the relevant judicial authorities, the army announced on Tuesday.

“The Intelligence Directorate referred to the competent judicial authorities the detainee Mohammed al-Ayyoubi, who had been arrested on September 25, 2014 on charges of forming a terrorist cell in Tripoli,” the Army Command said in a communique.

Two members of the Internal Security Forces Narcotics Control Bureau were released at dawn Friday hours after they were kidnapped in the northern city of Tripoli, the state-run National News Agency reported.

NNA said unknown assailants took the policemen, who were in civilian clothes, as hostages on Thursday night in the Tripoli district of Bab al-Tabbaneh.