Hariri

Iranian FM Abbas Araqchi announces support for a ceasefire in Lebanon amid Beirut visit

Tehran supports a ceasefire that would be 'acceptable to the Lebanese people' and synchronized with one in Gaza.

 Iran's top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi attends a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria, June 28, 2019.
 People walk outside Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport, in Beirut, Lebanon August 26, 2024.

Israel reportedly hacks Beirut airport control tower, warns Iranian plane not to land

 Police at the scene where four men were shot dead in the Arab Town of Abu Snan, northern Israel, August 22, 2023.

Three arrests made in connection with Abu Snan murders, Shin Bet withdraws from investigation

 Rosh Hanikra, at the border between Israel and Lebanon, on October 14, 2022

London tried to mediate Lebanese-Israeli peace in the 1990's - report


Hezbollah causes 'unprecedented chaos' in Lebanon - Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Foreign Ministry called on the international community to "assume its responsibilities towards Lebanon."

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Amal Movement carry flags while riding in a convoy as votes are being counted in Lebanon's parliamentary election, in Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, May 15, 2022.

Lebanon tribunal sentences two men to life imprisonment for Hariri bombing

The men remain at large and have been tried and convicted in absentia by the UN-backed, the Hague-based Lebanon tribunal.

A statue of Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri is seen near the site of the suicide bombing that killed him in 2005, during the 16th anniversary of his assassination, in Beirut, Lebanon February 14, 2021.

Lebanon caught between real change and power brokers - analysis

President, prime minister-designate tangle over forming a government

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri speaks during a news conference in Beirut

Hezbollah man convicted in 2005 Hariri bombing sentenced to five life terms in prison

Salim Jamil Ayyash was found guilty in August of homicide and committing a terrorist act over the deaths of Hariri and 21 others in the attack on Beirut's waterfront.

Workers prepare a giant poster depicting Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon February 12, 2010

Lebanon PM's brother calls for peace in interview with Israeli journalist

"I think everybody at a certain point will move forward to have peace. We are tired."

Demonstrators stand on a bridge decorated with a national flag during an anti-government protest along a highway in Jal el-Dib, Lebanon, October 21, 2019

Hariri named as Lebanon's new prime minister

Any new government will have to contend with a financial meltdown worsening by the day, a COVID-19 outbreak and the fallout of the massive explosion at Beirut port.

Former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri speaks at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon October 12, 2020

Special Court convicts 1 of 5 Hezbollah members of killing ex-Lebanese PM

Three Hezbollah officials acquitted, doubt regarding dead official

Workers prepare a giant poster depicting Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon February 12, 2010

For some Lebanese, UN tribunal's Hariri ruling is not enough

Some Lebanese, including victims of the attack who waited 15 years for a verdict, voiced disbelief at the acquittal of three other Hezbollah members.

A billboard of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri is displayed along a street in Beirut

Who killed Rafik Hariri?

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (the STL) was voted into existence by the UN Security Council in 2007 and formally established in 2009.

Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt pays his respects at the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.

Lebanon braces for tribunal verdict 15 years after Hariri assassination

Hezbollah, which is both a political party in Lebanon’s government and a heavily armed militia, denies any role in Hariri’s killing.

A Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla looks at a fire rising from a burning object in a Beirut suburb, Lebanon July 17, 2006.

Card-carrying Hezbollah member condemns group in TV interview

"With my own eyes, I saw people eating from the trash," he recalled. "We all support the resistance against Israel, but we are dying of hunger. One needs to eat in order to fight."

Demonstrators form a human chain during ongoing anti-government protests in Sidon, Lebanon October 27, 2019