The Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces may restore their political alliance anytime despite the current disputes, Change and Reform bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan said on Sunday.

Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has announced that oil production in Lebanon will “protect” the country.

Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council, said on Saturday that his party will give full support for the resistance in Palestine after a US decision that recognized Jerusalem as capital of Israel.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri decided to “delay breaking ties” with his longtime allies, mainly the Lebanese Forces, “covertly dispatching” his adviser and former Minister Ghattas Khoury to Maarab to meet LF chief Samir Geagea, al-Akhbar daily reported on Saturday.

Although Hariri wants to “leave the door open to attempts between the two parties to resolve the crisis,” but Khoury's meeting with Geagea did not “reap positive outcome,” said the daily.

Lebanon's Cabinet will hold the last session this year in a special meeting on Tuesday at the Grand Serail to discuss agenda items pending since its previous meeting Thursday that approved licenses for oil drilling.

Ministerial sources said the Cabinet will tackle “noncontroversial” issues and will look into 67 items most of which "not related to administrative appointments at the ministry of information and the state-owned television TeleLiban."

Lebanon has set the date for the country's first parliamentary elections in nine years, scheduling the vote for May 6, the National News Agency reported.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq signed a decree Friday setting the date, NNA said.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Friday affirmed that the Kingdom was not “defeated” after Prime Minister Saad Hariri rescinded his resignation, pointing out that SA will “wait and see” if the premier will be “allowed to implement his political agenda.”

President Michel Aoun said Friday that Lebanon did not succumb to pressure and was able to overcome a political crisis that emerged following Prime Minister Saad Hariri's resignation-which he eventually rescinded.

Lebanese officials expressed reservation regarding a suggestion to open a Lebanese embassy in Jerusalem citing concerns the move could be misinterpreted, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Christian and Muslim spiritual leaders meeting in Bkirki warned Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration on Jerusalem represents “a provocation against over three billion people which targets the core of their faith.”

The spiritual leaders “reject this decision and demand its reversal,” the summit's closing statement said.