President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have reached a conclusion that they should soon place the issue of referring the Dahr al-Baidar case to the Judicial Council on the agenda of an upcoming cabinet session, MTV reported on Friday.

A Hezbollah truck has been stopped at the Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint, on the main highway linking Beirut to the eastern Bekaa Valley, earlier this month. It was carrying 780 kilograms of explosives, including 250 kilograms of TNT and 250 kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives, according to judicial officials.

Israeli forces carried out a series of artillery strikes, detonations, and drone overflights across southern Lebanon and the capital on Friday, the National News Agency said.

An Israeli drone dropped a stun grenade on the southern town of Yater while Israeli troops carried out a heavy detonation in the town of Khiam.

The Trump administration is considering establishing a mechanism similar to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) stationed in Egypt to monitor the trilateral agreement between Lebanon and Israel, as a potential post-UNIFIL arrangement, Asharq Bloomberg has reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is deeply involved in the file, had raised the possibility of a civilian monitoring team a few days ago.

Lebanese authorities have requested that Damascus arrest and extradite two Syrian nationals suspected of involvement in the murder of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani in Beirut, media reports said.

A judicial source had said that the two suspects fled to Syria, while preliminary investigations revealed the involvement of three individuals -- including a Lebanese national who was previously arrested.

Hezbollah has tasked MP Hussein Hajj Hassan with contacting judicial authorities— specifically Public Prosecutor Judge Ahmad Rami al-Hajj — to request that the five Hezbollah men arrested earlier this week in Bsharri be handed over, MTV said in a report Friday.

Hajj Hassan said the five detainees would be considered like the group's prisoners held by Israel, the report said, adding that Public Prosecutor al-Hajj insisted that the investigation would take its course.

Judicial and security authorities in Lebanon are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of former Iraqi MP Ahmed al-Alwani inside a residential apartment in Beirut, amid information that has so far ruled out financial motives or robbery behind the crime.

While a Lebanese suspect is in custody, preliminary information indicates that two other suspected accomplices fled to Syria just a few hours after carrying out the murder, though their full identities and nationalities have not yet been confirmed, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

The investigation into the five “Hezbollah members” who were arrested between the northern districts of Batroun and Bsharri is still in the intelligence-gathering phase and is expanding, focusing on the reasons for their movement in the area, judicial sources said.

President Joseph Aoun discussed Thursday Lebanese-Turkish relations with Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Baabda.

"Lebanon looks forward to a new phase of cooperation and partnership, particularly in the fields of investment, reconstruction, trade, tourism, and infrastructure," Aoun told Erdogan, as he praised "the role that Turkey can play in supporting the stability of Lebanon."

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri affirmed Lebanon’s sovereignty on Thursday after Kataeb Party leader and MP Samy Gemayel urged him to respond to recent statements by Iran's parliament speaker, who said Iran and Lebanon are a unified front in peace and war.

During Thursday's parliamentary session, Gemayel raised the remarks made by the Iranian parliamentary speaker and called on Berri to publicly reject them, urging him to declare that Lebanon is independent and that no external party can drag the country into war.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Thursday at the U.N. climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, that Lebanon's climate challenges are inextricably linked to its ongoing geopolitical and economic struggles, citing the environmental impacts of the Israeli war on south Lebanon.

Salam said years of financial crisis have weakened Lebanon's institutions and public facilities, while successive wars have caused widespread destruction affecting infrastructure, agricultural lands, forests, and ecosystems.