The member states of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC)

The U.S. military will have a direct role in monitoring actions by both the Lebanese Army and the Israeli army, with U.S. troops on the ground in both Lebanon and Israel, a U.S. official said.

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday praised the role of the Lebanese Army and its leadership, officers and soldiers in "extending state authority, maintaining security and stability in the country, controlling the borders, and protecting civil peace," the Presidency said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil met Tuesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh, to discuss a framework agreement signed Friday with Israel.

Bassil said after the meeting that he and Berri agree on two main things. They both want to prevent internal strife, and both agree on defending the military.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that he and a large parliamentary bloc will strongly oppose a framework accord recently signed between Lebanon and Israel.

"They have entangled themselves in a major ordeal. If they believe this agreement will pass through constitutional institutions, they do not realize they will be facing Nabih Berri and a large parliamentary bloc. In the past, they faced Najah Wakim and Zaher al-Khatib, but today they will face me alongside a very large number of MPs," Berri was quoted as saying by visitors, in a report published Tuesday in the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper.

Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns.

Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never seen her parents' homeland. But more than just making pretty designs, the threads in her needle were stitching a connection to her heritage.

The Israeli army struck Tuesday at dawn the southern border town of Deir Seryan and dropped stun grenades on Haddatha and Baraashit, despite a framework accord signed by the two countries last week aimed at securing a peace deal.

Lebanese state media on Monday said an Israeli strike hit the area between the southern Lebanese towns of Qantara and Deir Seryan.

The UAE has said its nationals can travel to Lebanon, effective on Monday, lifting a weeks-long ban in place because of the Middle East war and concerns about Iran's influence.

The foreign ministry announced "it will allow UAE citizens to travel to the sisterly Lebanese Republic, starting from Monday, June 29, 2026," the official WAM news agency reported.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump linked the Lebanese and Iranian arenas to serve U.S. interests -- following an Iranian demand -- asserting that without this connection, Hezbollah would have "collapsed."

President Joseph Aoun on Monday met with U.S. Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper at the Baabda Palace, in the presence of U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Beirut Keith Hannigan and Chief of Staff of the 2024 ceasefire mechanism team, General Joseph Clearfield.