The United States announced Tuesday that it will be “bringing together Lebanon and Israel for talks aimed at diplomatically resolving several outstanding issues between the two countries.”

Israel said on Tuesday that it had agreed to release five captive Lebanese citizens as a goodwill gesture to Lebanon’s “new president” Joseph Aoun.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held a meeting Tuesday with President Joseph Aoun in Baabda, reportedly over the issue of security appointments.

The Lebanese Forces has blasted Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri over remarks that he voiced regarding the thorny issue of Hezbollah’s weapons, accusing him of disregarding “the Taif Agreement, the U.N. resolutions, the latest ceasefire agreement, the presidential inauguration address and the ministerial statement.”

An Israeli drone bombed a car on the Roumine-Wadi Deir al-Zahrani road in south Lebanon on Tuesday, killing one person.

The Israeli army radio said the target of the strike was a member of Hezbollah's "aerial defense unit."

Although a new-appointed government has said the state should from now on be the sole bearer of arms after a 13-months-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri said the government would in no way disarm Hezbollah by force.

"It is not the time to take reckless risks that might take Lebanon backward, to many years ago," Metri said Monday in a televised interview.

The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon met Tuesday with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

President Joseph Aoun held a meeting Tuesday in Baabda with the head of the ceasefire monitoring committee, U.S. General Jasper Jeffers, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador Lisa Johnson, ahead of a meeting for the committee in Naqoura, the Presidency said.

"President Aoun asked the committee chief to press Israel to implement the agreement, withdraw from the five hills and return the Lebanese captives," the Presidency added.

State Prosecutor Jamal al-Hajjar has re-allowed security and judicial authorities to cooperate with Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar, revoking ex-prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat’s ruling against him, state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has described the recent widespread clashes across Syria's coastal region, during which hundreds of civilians were killed, as a great danger not just to Syria "but to Lebanon as well."

Bassil warned Sunday night against divisions in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan and called for unity in the region's countries, praising the level of awareness of Tripoli's residents.