Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani on Monday hit out at Hizbullah for its intervention in the Syrian conflict.
In an audio recording entitled: "The Coming Days are Better Than Those of the Past,” the Nusra leader warned “Shiites in Lebanon not to allow Hizbullah to drag them into a proxy war in Syria on behalf of its Iranian backers.”

The United States on Monday applauded the EU's designation of the military wing of Hizbullah as a "terrorist organization," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
"With today's action, the EU is sending a strong message to Hezbollah that it cannot operate with impunity," Kerry said in a statement, calling the move by the European Union "an important step."

Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon, held talks Monday evening with President Michel Suleiman, following the decision taken by the EU to blacklist the military wing of Hizbullah.
“The EU is sending an important political message: acts of terrorism are unacceptable irrespective of the perpetrators,” Eichhorst said, according to a press release issued by the EU delegation.

EU foreign ministers are likely to put the military wing of Hizbullah on their blacklist of "terror groups," EU diplomatic sources said Friday as the cabinet warned against such a step.
"There are still some reservations... but we are moving towards a decision on listing Hizbullah's military wing," a senior EU official said ahead of a meeting of all 28 EU foreign ministers on Monday.

The Presidency on Thursday announced that caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour has been tasked to ask the EU to refrain from putting Hizbullah on its list of terrorist organizations.
“Following consultations with the premier, it has been decided to task FM Adnan Mansour to ask Lebanon's envoy to the EU and to inform the European Commission and the union's member states that Lebanon's government wants them to refrain from putting Hizbullah, an essential component of the Lebanese society, on the list of terror groups, especially should the decision be taken in a hasty manner and without objective and decisive evidence,” the Presidency said.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc on Tuesday reiterated its calls for forming a non-partisan cabinet, stressing that “political problems” can be solved in national dialogue sessions.
"Problems facing Lebanon like security-related issues and the pressures caused by the (Syrian) refugees' presence necessitate a non-partisan cabinet that is highly qualified to deal with all the citizens' worries,” the lawmakers stated in a released statement after the bloc's weekly meeting at the Center House.

A bomb hit a Hizbullah convoy traveling towards the Lebanese border crossing with Syria, wounding two people, a security source said on Tuesday.
One vehicle was struck by the explosion near the Masnaa border crossing, the source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Efforts to form a new government are seeming more complicated with Speaker Nabih Berri halting his initiative aimed at ending the deadlock, said the daily An Nahar Sunday.
Sources monitoring the formation process revealed that Hizbullah had urged the speaker to halt the initiative without explaining the reasons for it.

Head of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Saniora on Friday voiced concern that clashes might renew in the southern city of Sidon because of the presence of weapons in the hands of non-state actors.
Saniora voiced his remarks from Abra, a Sidon suburb that witnessed deadly fierce clashes last month between army troops and gunmen loyal to anti-Hizbullah Islamist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir.

Hizbullah deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stated on Friday that the party was expecting to be the target of an attack like the one that took place in the Bir al-Abed neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahieh on Tuesday.
He said on the seventh anniversary of the eruption of the July 2006 war: “The Dahieh blast is part of a plan to target the resistance and those backing Israel's agendas were behind it.”
