President Michel Suleiman discussed on Monday with Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Baabda Palace the general security situation, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, the two officials tackled the recent local developments, in particular, the security situation.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji stressed on Monday that the battle against terrorism and terrorists is open, expressing relief over the measures implemented along the Syrian-Lebanese border.

“Terrorism threatens all the Lebanese without any exception,” Qahwaji pointed out in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Turkey on Sunday shot down a Syrian warplane near their border as fighting raged between loyalist troops and rebels for control of the Kasab frontier post.

Here is a list of the 19 official land border crossings between Syria and its neighbors Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.

Two rockets landed on Sunday in the outskirts of the Bekaa town of Sarein, leaving one person wounded.

“A Syrian worker was wounded when a Grad rocket fired from Syria hit a grove in the northern Bekaa town of Sarein,” Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5) reported.

Syrian forces and rebels battled Sunday for a third straight day for control of a key crossing on the northern border with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"Fighters from (the Al-Qaida-affiliated) Al-Nusra Front and other groups have attacked the crossing and forced out regime forces and national defense auxiliaries," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

An Arab League summit opens in Kuwait on Tuesday at a time of deepening rifts between its member states and without any end in sight to the Syrian conflict.

With Doha in the eye of the storm, the region's leaders are expected to discuss the row which has pitted Qatar against Gulf partners Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as Egypt.

The number of Syrians that have arrived in Lebanon after fleeing the village of al-Hosn in central Syria has risen to 300, the state-run National News Agency said Saturday.

"300 Syrian men, women, children and elderly have crossed the Grand River stream and arrived in Lebanese border towns,” the NNA detailed, adding that many of these refugees were concentrated in the villages of the Wadi Khaled region in the North.

The army has arrested 43 Syrians in the northeastern border town of Arsal and handed them over to the Military Police, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

"The number of men arrested by the army at checkpoints erected three days ago in the Arsal plains has risen to 43,” the NNA said.

President Michel Suleiman warned on Saturday of the consequences of the continuous assaults against the army, calling on the military to strike with an iron fist.

“We should expressed our solidarity with the army and support it in its national missions inside the country and across the border,” Suleiman said after talks with General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.

Fighting raged Saturday between rebels and loyalist forces in Syria's northern Latakia province, a day after 34 people were killed as Islamists sought to seize a border crossing into Turkey, an NGO said.

The fighting has prompted President Bashar Assad's government to complain to the United Nations that Turkey was providing cover to rebels crossing the border from its territory.