After “years of monitoring the U.S. and British activities on the Lebanese-Syrian border,” the Syrian government has decided to send an official letter to the Lebanese government regarding “the towers that are spread along the border, from the mouth of the Grand River in the north to beyond the Rashaya region in the Bekaa,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with soldiers of the Israeli army’s Alpinist Unit and the 188th Armored Brigade on Mount Hermon on Thursday, where he discussed Israel’s goals on its norther front.

Hezbollah attacked Friday with two suicide drones the headquarters of the Upper Galilee Regional Council in Kiryat Shmona, in response to an overnight strike that killed a Hezbollah fighter and two paramedics.

Hezbollah had earlier announced the death of one of its fighters and two affiliated paramedics in a drone strike on the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee in the southern border town of Blida overnight.

At least two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli drone strike on a residential building in south Lebanon on Thursday, a security source said.

A conference for supporting the Lebanese Army that France was preparing to host on February 27 has been postponed indefinitely.

Foreign efforts to break Lebanon’s presidential deadlock will intensify before the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, diplomatic sources said.

Lebanon has received an official paper containing Paris’ vision for resolving the border conflict with Israel, following the previous unofficial paper, media reports said.

Tehran has informed the relevant parties that it is “not concerned” with reconstruction operations in south Lebanon when the current confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah ends, a media report said.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has recently called Speaker Nabih Berri and renewed the demand that Hezbollah pull back its forces “for a few kilometers from the border with Israel,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday.

U.S. democratic senators Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal have said that Israel "is not bluffing" about an offensive against Hezbollah but that a truce in Gaza could pave way for a de-escalation in lebanon.

The senators told Reuters Wednesday, after they met with Lebanese officials in Beirut, that a possible Israeli military offensive against Hezbollah could be prevented as a hostage deal and truce in Gaza could have "positive consequences" for Lebanon. They said the coming weeks will be crucial for the region and for Lebanon.