Speaker Nabih Berri has relayed to the Iranians three demands reflecting his growing concern over Lebanon’s continued involvement in the “game of axes,” a highly informed diplomatic source said.

“The first demand calls for keep Lebanon fully neutral in any future confrontation between Iran and Israel and refraining from using the Lebanese arena as a pressure card in Tehran’s negotiations with Washington,” the source told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper.

Amal MP Ali Hassan Khalil said Friday that Speaker Nabih Berri's powers are constitutional after Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea criticized the Speaker for refusing to discuss in parliament a draft law demanding the amendment of the current electoral law ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 2026.

The LF, the Kataeb and other MPS forming a parliamentary majority are pushing for amending the law to allow a large Lebanese diaspora to vote for the 128 seats.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa on Monday revealed the presence of contacts regarding the rescheduling of Army chief Rodolphe Haykal’s visit to Washington, expressing his belief that the visit will take place.

As for the Mechanism meetings, Issa said after meeting Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji that no one was “expecting peace from the first meeting.”

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has described a Sunday meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri as "friendly and warm", calling Berri a "long-time friend and ally."

After the meeting, Jumblat said the same phrase previously used by Berri: We cannot negotiate under (Israeli) fire.

Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Diodato Abagnara has said that UNIFIL has no evidence that Hezbollah is rebuilding its military capabilities south of the Litani.

In an interview with Israel's Channel 12, Abagnara said that the presence of Israeli troops along the Blue Line constitutes "a flagrant" violation of U.N. resolution 1701.

French Special Envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian will arrive Monday in Lebanon where he will meet President Joseph Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, media reports said.

Le Drian will also meet with foreign Minister Youssef Rajji and the meetings will discuss economic and security matters.

Negotiations have a much higher chance of ending the Israeli violations than staying locked in one place, President Joseph Aoun told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Monday.

Aoun's comments come as Lebanon and Israel moved toward direct negotiations

Maronite Patriarch Beshra al-Rahi said Monday after meeting with President Joseph Aoun that the relation between Bkerki and Baabda is very good and negotiations with Israel are better than war threats.

"I have no fears (of a new war) and we are now in the time of diplomacy and negotiations," al-Rahi told reporters in a short press conference after the meeting.

Ilan Rosenfeld walks through the burnt-out shell of his former business, stepping over crackling pieces of clay plates that used to line his cafe and past metal scraps of Hezbollah rockets littering the rubble.

It's all that's left for him in this small, war-ravaged town — the northernmost in Israel, surrounded on three sides by Lebanon.

U.S. President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night and urged him to shift gradually from offensive operations and escalation threats in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria to diplomacy and confidence-building measures, senior officials told Israel's Ynet news portal.

"The shift, Trump argued, is necessary to advance the civilian stage of his '20-Point Plan' for Gaza and to work toward a stable, long-term end to hostilities, with the possibility of additional normalization agreements," the officials said.