Beirut  - The Iranian-backed Shiite movement Hezbollah is scheduled to announce Thursday the end of its civil disobedience action that had closed roads and the airport in Lebanon as a visiting Arab League delegation was expected to conclude a deal to end the violence.

A Hezbollah source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa "we will announce a statement shortly after noon time that will open roads and end the current situation."

Meanwhile, sources close to the Arab delegation who arrived in Lebanon Wednesday to try to end the crisis in the country, said it is expected to announce talks in Qatar to resolve the political crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon for 18 months.

The latest tension between the opposition led by Hezbollah and the Western-backed ruling majority led to six days of bloody clashes in which at least 82 people were killed and more than 250 wounded.

The government cancelled late Wednesday its decision to probe the Hezbollah communications network and sack the airport security chief Colonel Wafik Choukair and left it in the hands of the army.

This was one of Hezbollahs's main conditions before it would put an end to the civil disobedience and open all roads in and at the outskirts of the capital.

The roadblocks, including barricades on the airport road, are expected to be lifted on Thursday after the Arab League delegation, headed by the prime minister of Qatar, an announces agreement on the talks to be held in Doha.

The delegation was also to meet Hezbollah leaders at noon (0900 GMT).

The talks will tackle the dispute over how to share power in the cabinet and the details of a new parliamentary election law. The row has paralyzed much of government and left Lebanon with no president since November.

The dispute is seen as a struggle for influence between Syria, which backs the opposition, and Saudi Arabia, which supports the ruling coalition. (dpa)