With anti-establishment protests rocking his country, Walid Jumblatt, the longtime leader of Lebanon’s Druze community, said he supports dialogue with the protesters and the enactment of “appropriate economic reform.”
The diplomatic crisis over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul does not appear to have damaged the Sunni Arab alliance led by Saudi Arabia.
BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s actions pose a threat to the security of Lebanon and have a destabilising influence in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday.
Citing a dozen “Western, Lebanese, and regional officials and associates” of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri, on Christmas Eve the New York Times published an account of Hariri’s resignation (and later un-resignation) that asserts he was forced out of office by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as part of Saudi Arabia’s cold war against Iran.
The State Department announced that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Friday, while they are both attending a meeting of the International Lebanon Support Group.
The long and strange story of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s resignation appears to have ended on Tuesday with news that Hariri reached a deal with opposition leaders and formally rescinded his resignation, making him once again the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Tuesday that he had withdrawn his resignation, a month after his shock announcement that he was quitting sparked a political crisis.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, back in Beirut after a mysterious odyssey that saw him announce his resignation in Saudi Arabia, told cheering supporters on Wednesday that he was staying.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on Thursday described Hezbollah as a “first-class terrorist organization” that was responsible for destabilizing the region. “Hezbollah has kidnapped the Lebanese system,” London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat cited Jubeir as saying at a joint news conference in
PARIS (AFP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri confirmed he would return to Lebanon in time for Independence Day celebrations Wednesday, as political turmoil rocks his country following his resignation announcement in Saudi Arabia.
RIYADH – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has accepted an invitation to travel to Paris after Beirut accused Riyadh of detaining him following his shock resignation, the French foreign minister said Thursday.
Ali Akbar Velayati, top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Tuesday that reports of an unpleasant meeting with former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before the latter’s surprise resignation are untrue, and Iran wants Hariri back as prime minister.
Gulf Affairs Minister Thamer al-Sabhan of Saudi Arabia said in a television interview on Sunday that he has “confirmed information” of a plot to murder Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who resigned on Saturday.
The resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday and his criticism of Iran should serve as a “wakeup call for everyone,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a BBC interview on Sunday.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri will join a coalition government with Hezbollah, conceding defeat and handing the terrorist organization more political power than it ever had before.
Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry says it will file an “urgent complaint” against Israel with the United Nations Security Council.
