U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, Kushner said at the end of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, before travelling to Dublin to debrief Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed because we see some openings.

Russia and Ukraine have resumed U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi for a second day, Kyiv's chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Wednesday.

"We are starting the second day of negotiations. First, a trilateral format together with the United States and Russia. After that, we will hold a separate meeting with our European partners. We are working," Umerov said on Telegram.

Iran's foreign ministry on Wednesday designated Argentina's navy and air force as terrorist organizations, following a similar move by Buenos Aires months earlier.

In late March, Argentina designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological arm of the military, as a terror organization, citing the IRGC's support for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

A former member of the Iraqi parliament who spent over a decade in prison in his home country was found dead in a Beirut apartment days after arriving in Lebanon, Lebanese security and judicial officials said Tuesday.

The officials said Ahmed al-Alwani arrived in Beirut flying in from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil five days ago. Al-Alwani had reserved a room at a hotel in Beirut's commercial Hamra district, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Tuesday that one of its patrols came under fire in the country's south, without saying who was responsible.

G7 foreign ministers agreed on "the need to avoid a security void" in Lebanon after U.N. peacekeepers pull out, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday after a meeting of the group in Paris.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said he saw no need to resume major combat operations against Iran because economic restrictions were working so effectively.

"The economic campaign (against Iran) is so devastating that right now there is no need for major combat operations," Rubio said after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Paris. "That's what I told our allies here today."

Lebanon on Tuesday began new talks with the International Monetary Fund on a bailout to help the country emerge from the worst economic crisis in its history, with progress stalled by its inability to pass banking reforms.

Israel's former military chief Gadi Eisenkot vowed Tuesday to form a government quickly to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the new parliament prepared to be sworn in.

"I am committed in this complex situation to form a national-emergency government as quickly as possible," Eisenkot told reporters ahead of being sworn in as a member of parliament.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Tuesday that two oil tankers were on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, where the country regularly targets ships that transit without its authorization.

Since the outbreak of the Middle East war in late February, Tehran has heavily restricted traffic through the strategic waterway, insisting vessels use routes authorized by the Islamic republic.