Syria’s new authorities have started probing “the involvement of the former Syrian regime in cooperation with Iran-backed Lebanese militias” in “the import and smuggling of the ammonium nitrate” of which hundreds of tons exploded at Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, sources informed on the work of Syria’s justice ministry and judiciary said.

Once dominant in Lebanon, Hezbollah is showing “new signs of weakness” and is “struggling to meet its financial commitments to supporters” after the latest war with Israel, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

“Three months after Hezbollah agreed to a cease-fire, the damage inflicted by Israel’s armed forces on the Iran-backed Shiite group is becoming clear: Its military has been severely degraded and its finances are strained to the point that it is struggling to meet its commitments to followers,” the WSJ said.

The Free Patriotic Movement will likely withhold confidence from the government, MP Salim Aoun said Monday in a radio interview, as Parliament is set to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday for a vote of confidence in the new government formed by PM-designate Nawaf Salam.

"The statements are good, but the experience with PM Nawaf Salam's line-up was not promising," MP Aoun said.

President Joseph Aoun’s remarks to an Iranian delegation that "Lebanon has grown tired of the wars of others on its land” were a “direct message” to Iran to “consolidate Lebanon’s sovereignty as to the war and peace decisions,” sources told Al-Jadeed TV.

Delegations were flocking Monday to the southern town of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr in the Tyre district for the funeral and burial of slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasham Safieddine, who was killed four days after succeeding Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah’s secretary-general.

Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said from Beirut that Iran “will support any decision made unanimously by the Lebanese government and people and the Lebanese resistance (Hezbollah).”

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has told an Iranian delegation led by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf that the security of Beirut’s airport and passengers is “the priority," following the latest controversy over the landing of Iranian planes.

President Joseph Aoun told a visiting Iranian delegation on Sunday that the war-scarred country was "tired" of external conflicts playing out on its territory.

The high-level delegation was in Beirut for the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Tehran-backed Hezbollah which fought a war with Israel last year that ended in a November truce.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets on Sunday for the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Nasrallah died after Israel's air force dropped more than 80 bombs on the militant group's main operations room in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, dealing a major blow to the Iran-backed group and political party that he had transformed into a potent force in the Middle East.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said the group would keep following the path of slain chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday during a televised speech broadcast at his massive funeral on the outskirts of Beirut.

"We will uphold trust and walk on this path, we will uphold your will," Qassem said referring to Nasrallah, adding: "you are still with us: your... path and struggle live within us" and "I am loyal to the legacy Nasrallah".