State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki has charged 26 suspects with involvement in the February 13 attack on UNIFIL forces on the Beirut airport road.

The United States congratulates the people of Lebanon on “the successful February 26 vote of confidence for the government,” the U.S. State Department has said.

Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat urged Arab countries to unite in order to protect the security of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

Jumblat's statements came ahead of an emergency Arab League summit and days after Israel said that Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria and southern Lebanon for an indefinite period.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam inspected south Lebanon on Friday and said the reconstruction of towns and homes destroyed by Israel is a top priority of his government.

One person was killed and two others wounded when an Israeli drone targeted a pickup truck on the outskirts of the eastern city of Hermel on Thursday, the state-run National News Agency said.

The Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah "observation post" in southern Lebanon on Thursday, calling its presence "a violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon."

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has addressed Prime Minister Nawaf Salam by saying that “broad administrative decentralization should be also financial or it cannot exist.”

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday congratulated the government, the premier and the ministers on winning parliament’s confidence, while also voicing respect for those who withheld their confidence.

Israel has “received a U.S. green light” to keep its forces on five strategic hills in south Lebanon near Israel’s border, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has congratulated Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on forming a new government, the Gulf kingdom's foreign ministry said Thursday.