11:40 am MEA announced it was suspending all outgoing and incoming flights to Beirut until midday Saturday.11:15 am MP Walid Jumblat has been evacuated from his Beirut home by army troops.
11:10 am Army troops reopened the port road which was briefly blocked at the Phoenicia Hotel area with burning tires.
11:00 am Tripoli residents blocked Maloula-Tebaneh highway with burning tires in protest of the bloody fighting in Beirut.
10:37 MPs and leaders of the March 14 alliance were summoned for an urgent meeting at Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea’s home in Maarab.
10:32 am An Egyptian diplomatic source said it is not allowed for a force backed by Iran to control Lebanon.
"10:32 am An Egyptian diplomatic source said it is not allowed for a force backed by Iran to control Lebanon."
11:41 French Peacekeepers do nothing.
11:42 French Peacekeepers ear escargot.
11:59 French FM denounces Israel.
1:15 pm The crackle of gunfire echoed over the municipality stadium in Beirut.1:10 pm Gunmen stormed into the house of Mufti Jabal Amel Sayyed Ali al-Amin in Tyre.
12:40 pm Gunmen from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party were seen deployed in Clemenceau .
12:00 pm Protestors closed the road between al-Abdeh and Halba. The Mina road, however, was reopened.
11:50 am Dahr el-Baidar highway was opened in both directions.
Well, then ... problem solved!