Lebanese authorities detained a former Syrian army officer following an arrest warrant from Damascus accusing him of "killing and crimes against humanity," a judicial official told AFP.

Italy, Britain, Switzerland and Indonesia may participate in a mechanism to verify Hezbollah's disarmament in the so-called pilot zones in south Lebanon, w diplomatic source told Al-Arabiya television.

Feliks, a rare eastern imperial eagle, is again soaring through the skies of his Serbian homeland after being rescued from the clutches of bird smugglers during his inaugural migration, the national bird society said.

The United States conveyed a message to Israel stating that Hezbollah did not violate the ceasefire agreement, urging it to refrain from retaliation, in the wake of the deadly blast that killed two Israeli soldiers in Majdal Zoun, an Israeli security official told Israel’s public broadcaster.

Washington has informed Israel through intensive contacts of the need to de-escalate in Lebanon, sources told Al-Arabiya on Friday.

U.S. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement that the seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel was “fruitful” amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi met on Friday with President Joseph Aoun, a day after a seventh round of Israeli-Lebanese talks concluded in Rome.

Following the meeting, Patriarch al-Rahi praised President Aoun’s stances as "honorable" and "patriotic," emphasizing that maintaining national unity remains paramount. He called on all Lebanese to rally behind the Lebanese State and its public institutions to safeguard the country and confront mounting regional challenges.

The Lebanese Army entered the southern town of al-Mansouri overnight to clear roads after Israeli shelling and strikes.

To obstruct the Lebanese soldiers from deploying in the town and clearing the roads for residents to return, the Israeli military targeted the army's bulldozer, dropped sound bombs and carried out airstrikes, lightly wounding a soldier.

Israel refused in talks on Thursday to withdraw from more areas of south Lebanon unless the Lebanese army had full control of an initial two "pilot zones", a Lebanese presidential source told AFP.

The seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel was held in Rome under U.S. auspices, aimed at ending hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah that have become a second front in the Middle East war.

Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc on Thursday condemned what it called Lebanese authorities’ “continued policy of submission, surrender, and humiliating negotiations” with Israel, which is pressing on with its “killing, bombing, bulldozing, and destruction.”