President Michel Aoun invited the Higher Defense Council for a meeting at the Baabda Palace on Tuesday to discuss the security situation in the country, the National News Agency reported.

Aoun's call came as the army gears up to battle the Islamic State militants in eastern Lebanon.

Foreign Minister and Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil said on Monday that it is “normal for the army to be the one to liberate Lebanese territories,” pointing out that the country is celebrating the “restoration of decision making which has been absent before.”

Internal Security Forces have arrested recently a Lebanese man in the Akkar border region of Wadi Khaled over his involvement with the Islamic State group, and plotting to carry out terror attacks against the Lebanese army and security agencies, the ISF said in a statement on Monday.

The ISF said that “a special force of its division have arrested the suspect who was identified by his initials as A.Aa. late in July during a quick operation in the area.”

As reports emerge that “coordination at the military level might take place” between Lebanon and Syria, it has also been reported that around three Lebanese ministers "might make a trip to Syria to meet an invitation" of a Syrian official, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

As U.S. President Donald Trump recently stood beside Prime Minister Saad Hariri praising his government for standing up to Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed group was busy demonstrating just how wrong he was. The group's fighters were clearing the country's eastern frontier from al-Qaida fighters in a sweeping offensive and negotiating a complex prisoner deal with the group.

Far from being an ally in the fight against Hizbullah, the Lebanese government headed by Hariri is based on a partnership with the Shiite group, whose clout and dominance in Lebanon is on the rise.

Speaker Nabih Berri met in Tehran on Saturday with President of the Iranian Shura Council Ali Larijani where talks focused on the relations between the two countries, and the latest developments in the region, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The General Security announced the arrest of a Syrian individual over his involvement with the Islamic State group and who had been recruiting members in Lebanon in favor of the organization, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Head of the Change Movement Elie Mahfoud said on Saturday that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah can negotiate the Syrian refugees crisis with his “ally” Syrian President Bashar Assad, just like he negotiated with his enemies over the release of Hizbullah captives.

The army renewed firing artillery on Saturday at posts and vehicles of the terrorist Islamic State group on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa, the National News Agency reported.

“The War Media outlet said the army was able to inflict casualties among the IS ranks killing and wounding several in al-Mkhayrmeh neighborhood of Ras Baalbek outskirts,” LBCI reported later on Saturday.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced Friday during a visit to Tehran that the Lebanese army is “among the best armies in the region.”