Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Youssef Saud Al-Sabah on Monday held meetings with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has told Lebanese officials that the initial Israeli response to the latest Lebanese paper was “positive,” Al-Jadeed TV reported overnight.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday warned Lebanese authorities against “continuing their hesitation and slow decisions as to the rise of an actual state in Lebanon,” following U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s latest remarks that Lebanon risks being swallowed by its neighbors.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has clarified his remarks about the possibility that Lebanon might be swallowed by Syria, after they sparked outrage in Lebanon.

Lebanon risks being swallowed by regional powers unless it acts to address Hezbollah’s arms and implement reforms, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has warned.

An Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern town of Khiam killed one person, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon on Friday killed one person, the Lebanese health ministry reported, with Israel saying it had targeted a man accused of helping smuggle weapons from Iran.

The attack was the latest in Lebanon despite a months-long ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah there.

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack met Thursday in Paris with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and they reportedly agreed to “boost cooperation between the two countries in the Lebanese and Syrian files.”

An Israeli drone targeted Friday a car on the road between Nmairiyeh and al-Sharqiyeh in the Nabatieh district, killing one person and wounding five others.

Despite a November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has kept up its strikes in Lebanon, hitting suspected Hezbollah targets and occasionally those of its Palestinian ally Hamas.

Although it is allowing Israel to carry on with its low-intensity attacks in Lebanon, the U.S. does not seem inclined to “encourage or cover a new all-out war on Lebanese soil,” influential diplomats told An-Nahar newspaper.