U.S. Central Command chief Admiral Brad Cooper told Israel in a visit during the weekend that the United States wants Israel to end the fighting on the three active fronts – Iran, Gaza and Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 13 reported.

President Joseph Aoun was briefed Monday by the head of the Lebanese negotiating delegation, ex-ambassador Simon Karam, on the deliberations of the meetings that were held in Rome last week between the Lebanese, U.S. and Israeli delegations, the Presidency said.

The president provided Karam with his “directives for the next stage,” the Presidency added.

Hezbollah has noted that the Israeli foreign ministry’s publishing of a map that annexes occupied southern Lebanon “confirms beyond any doubt the true extent of the Israeli enemy's ambitions for Lebanon.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Israel has “acted with force in Lebanon” in recent days, noting that it has eliminated “terrorists,” including “on the Ali Taher ridge” in the Nabatieh region.

“I cannot elaborate on this. We are in the midst of a very important operation,” Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting.

Israeli troops infiltrated a Lebanese village placed under the control of Lebanon's army as part of a June agreement, building an earthen barrier there, state media and the local mayor said.

Lebanese authorities detained a former Syrian army officer following an arrest warrant from Damascus accusing him of "killing and crimes against humanity," a judicial official told AFP.

Italy, Britain, Switzerland and Indonesia may participate in a mechanism to verify Hezbollah's disarmament in the so-called pilot zones in south Lebanon, w diplomatic source told Al-Arabiya television.

Feliks, a rare eastern imperial eagle, is again soaring through the skies of his Serbian homeland after being rescued from the clutches of bird smugglers during his inaugural migration, the national bird society said.

The United States conveyed a message to Israel stating that Hezbollah did not violate the ceasefire agreement, urging it to refrain from retaliation, in the wake of the deadly blast that killed two Israeli soldiers in Majdal Zoun, an Israeli security official told Israel’s public broadcaster.

Washington has informed Israel through intensive contacts of the need to de-escalate in Lebanon, sources told Al-Arabiya on Friday.