Canberra said Thursday there was a "high probability" a notorious Islamic State fighter born in Australia to Lebanese migrant parents and two of his children had been killed in a US airstrike in Syria.

Reports said Khaled Sharrouf and his sons Abdullah, 12, and Zarqawi, 11, were killed last Friday while driving near the IS bastion of Raqa.

The parliament approved on Wednesday the annulment of a controversial law allowing rapists who marry their victims to go free, after a high-profile campaign for its repeal.

Article 522 of the penal code, which exempts the rapist from punishment in the event of his marriage to the victim, was scrapped during a legislative session held at Nejmeh Square.

In line of a legislative session set to convene on Wednesday at Nejmeh Square in Downtown Beirut, a number of protesters rallied adjacent to the parliament building in a bid to pressure the authorities into approving their demands, as lawmakers approved the establishment of a new governorate.

Civil Defense volunteers gathered in Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square demanding the parliament to sign a decree that makes them full-time employees. They also demand that the retirement age be raised.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has expressed his “readiness to facilitate” the introduction of bills to amend some aspects of the wage scale law and the accompanying taxes to secure its funding resources, “if presented to the general assembly of the parliament,” the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Wednesday.

The Lebanese army continued pounding the Islamic State positions along the Syrian border overnight, massing reinforcements and pounding the area with artillery shells and rockets, the National News Agency reported.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday, condemned the terrorist attack in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou late Sunday, that killed 18 individuals including 3 Lebanese, the National News Agency reported.

Berri expressed his deep condolences and sorrow for “all victims from all nationalities, especially those of Lebanese origin who carried their dreams and hopes from the south and north of Lebanon in search of job prospects and a decent life abroad,” he said on a statement issued by his media office.

The Lebanese Army shelled with heavy artillery the posts of the Islamic State militant group on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek scoring direct hits, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Using rocket launchers the army bombarded the area of Khirbet Daoud, NNA said.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat took to Twitter on Tuesday listing a number of measures that he said if applied by the Lebanese government would help the country get out of its “recession” or prevent it from “falling.”

“Before (deciding on) the wage scale or state budget, you should first deal with the huge squandering as mentioned in (Lebanese daily) Ad Diyar. You should also stop the electricity and telecommunication projects,” said Jumblat is a tweet.

Israel's education minister “warned Lebanon” following what he described as “threats” by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Naftali Bennett, a member of Israel's security cabinet, said any future attack by Hizbullah would be considered a "declaration of war by the Lebanese state" as a whole. He said Israel won't operate "surgically" in the next war with Hizbullah.

Three Lebanese nationals were among the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted a Turkish restaurant in Burkina Faso on Monday and left 18 individuals dead, Lebanon's authorities said.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry identified in a statement the victims as Ahmed al-Beli, Mohsen Fneish and his Canadian wife who was pregnant at the time.