Aoun assured Rubio that Lebanese security forces are fully carrying out their duties in confiscating illicit arms in the country, according to Al Jazeera.

In the Thursday call, the matter at hand was a truck carrying 780kg of explosives intercepted on the highway between Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, a shipment Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah acknowledged as linked to the group and said was intended for operations against Israel.