News Aug 2 2026
6 newspapers · 19 headlines
An-Nahar
- Lebanon awaits developments in the war on Iran…
- Its optimism about the round of negotiations in Rome is waning.
Ad-Diyar
- The results of the Aoun-Trump summit are on the table at the Rome negotiations.
- A legislative session before mid-August to settle the amnesty issue and approve banking reform.
- Pre-emptive wars, while Erdoğan brings Washington and Tehran closer together.
- Will the “Autonomous Administration” dissolve itself?
- Behind the scenes of the understandings and unresolved issues with Damascus.
Al-Anbaa (Kuwait)
- Aoun renews his confidence in the army on its 81st anniversary:
- No weapon has legitimacy outside the authority of the state.
Al-Rai (Kuwait)
- The Lebanese president: No weapon has legitimacy outside the authority of the state, and the country can only be protected by a united national army.
- United Nations: Israeli demolitions in Lebanon raise grave concern.
- Netanyahu yields to Trump’s will on the Gaza agreement…
- But the path to implementation is full of obstacles.
- The Rome negotiations amid a powder keg of upheavals…
- From Lebanon’s Shqif to the Strait of Hormuz.
Asharq Al-Awsat
- The first pilot areas in the south:
- The Lebanese Army has returned… but Hezbollah has not.
- US embassies urge their citizens to “consider leaving” the Middle East.
Al-Jarida (Kuwait)
- Will Israel attack “Ali al-Taher” before the Rome negotiations?