There is a “serious disappointment” in Baabda over the failure of diplomatic contacts to secure serious guarantees from the U.S. regarding Israel’s attacks against Lebanon following the violent airstrikes in the Nabatieh region, prominent political sources said.

President Joseph Aoun will visit Kuwait Sunday and will meet there with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, PSP's al-Anbaa news portal reported.

Al-Anbaa said Friday that Aoun will discuss with the Kuwaiti Emir the bilateral relations between the two countries and will urge Kuwait to offer military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces and to fund more projects financed by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development across Lebanon.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh said that the so-called Axis of Resistance is not in its best situation today, but added that “it is premature to say that it has ended, even if it has been dealt a very strong blow.”

The relation between Hezbollah and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is not at its best, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper said Friday.

The daily reported that despite the disagreements, ties are not severed and communication and coordination between the two sides are ongoing.

U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus told some Lebanese officials who contacted her Thursday over the latest Israeli airstrikes that she would visit Lebanon soon to work on consolidating the ceasefire, Lebanese officials told al-Joumhouria newspaper.

Palestinian militant group Hamas has blamed "individual" actors for firing rockets towards Israel from Lebanon after it handed over several people, saying it was committed to a Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire.

Hamas claimed attacks on Israel from Lebanon during more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian group's Lebanese ally Hezbollah that erupted over the Gaza war and largely ended with a November truce.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the Arab world’s only Christian head of state, has congratulated newly elected Pope Leo XIV, expressing the hope that he will strengthen interfaith dialogue.

Aoun, elected in January under multi-confessional Lebanon’s power-sharing system, said in a statement from his office that he hoped the new pontiff would "strengthen dialogue between religions and cultures".

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Thursday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro, who handed him a copy of the documents and maps of the French archive that are related to the Lebanese-Syrian border, the French Ministry said.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday visited the Central Bank in Beirut’s Hamra area and met with its newly-appointed governor Karim Souaid and his four deputies.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Thursday inspected the northern Bekaa region and the border with Syria.