Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdullatif Al-Zayani condemned on Saturday the “terrorist” blasts that rocked the the northern city of Tripoli.

“Targeting worship places and innocent people is a vile criminal action,” al-Zayani said in a statement issued late on Friday.

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on Saturday pointed to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, three days they allegedly killed hundreds of people in attacks near Damascus.

Syria's main opposition group, the National Coalition, accused the government of "massacring" more than 1,300 people in chemical weapons attacks on Wednesday.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday reminded U.S. citizens to “avoid all travel to Lebanon due to safety and security concerns,” urging those in the country to “exercise security awareness," after at least 40 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in twin bombings that rocked mosques in Tripoli.

"Although there is no indication that U.S. citizens or interests were targets of those behind these attacks, there is a possibility of public demonstrations in response," the embassy said on its website in a security alert titled “Increase in Sectarian Violence in Lebanon.”

Unknown militants fired four rockets from the southern region of Tyre towards northern Israel on Thursday.

“Four rockets were fired from an area between Hawsh and the al-Rashidiyeh (Palestinian refugee) camp towards the Occupied Territories (northern Israel),” Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

Masked gunmen shot dead a Hizbullah supporter and two other men, including a member of the security forces, in the northern city of Tripoli early Thursday, a security official said.

"Masked men on motorbikes shot dead Hussam al-Mouri, a security official and a third man who happened to be at the scene," the official said.

An Egyptian court Wednesday ordered ex-president Hosni Mubarak freed while he stands trial for corruption and killing protesters, as authorities pressed their roundup of supporters of his ousted Islamist successor.

Egypt's military, however, ordered Mubarak to be placed under house arrest, the government said.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea urged the United Nations' investigators present in Syria to inspect the Reef Damascus town where “a horrific massacre” took place earlier on Wednesday.

"We strongly condemn the horrific massacre that killed hundreds of civilians and children in Reef Damascus this morning,” Geagea said in a released statement.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday noted that “the ideology responsible” for the latest bombings in the country is “outside Lebanon,” lashing out at the “feudalism” of Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and his aides.

“Several parties have talked about the issue of (Syrian) refugees and what struck me were the remarks of (Jumblat's bloc MP Akram) Shehayyeb and (PSP spokesman) Rami al-Rayyes, who spoke in the name of the PSP's feudalism about the 'racism' of Michel Aoun and (caretaker Energy and Water) Minister (Jebran) Bassil,” Aoun told reporters after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.

Head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Lebanon, Jurg Montani hoped that the committee will continue to provide Syrian refugees flowing into the country with the necessary aid that it has been providing for the past two years.

He said at the end of his two-and-a-half year mandate to Lebanon: “The Lebanese government has been exemplary in keeping its border open and hosting the refugees.”

Five rockets landed in and around the Bekaa town of Hermel, a Hizbullah stronghold, on Sunday, a security source told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

"Two rockets landed in the town of Hermel, in an area between the Mabarrat teaching association and the Masharii al-Qaa area, causing no casualties," the source said.