Lebanese officials reported Saturday they are set to open up an embassy in Syria, a day after the Syrian flag was hoisted over that country's new embassy in Beirut.

Israel released two "kidnapped" Lebanese civilians and turned them over to the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Saturday, the Hezbollah-run Al-Manar TV station reported.

Lebanese Security forces Saturday discovered a bicycle equipped with a camera and a recorder parked beside the Beirut residence of anti-Syrian Druze MP and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jum

The year 2008 saw Lebanon battling threats on two fronts: On one side the threat of civil war; on the other the rise of Sunni militancy destabilizing an already unsteady country.

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped on Monday a Lebanese engineer in southern Nigeria's oil hub of Port Harcourt, the Lebanese authorities said.

According to a government source, the Lebanese government was informed by the Nigerian police that a Lebanese man was abducted in Nigeria late morning.

Hamas met Monday with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and Premier Fouad Seniora.

Syria-based Khaled Mashaal said he "told both Lebanese officials that the internal Palestinian situation was good and affirmed that Hamas supported Lebanese reconciliation."

The head of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah's international relations department Saturday accused Terje Roed- Larsen, UN Special Representative for the implementation of Security Council Resolu

Two people suspected of spying for Israel have been arrested in Lebanon, the Lebanese army said Saturday.