Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right smiles after he meeting Lebanon's newly elected President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. Aoun, on Thursday asked former Premier Saad Hariri to form a new government, after he secured an overwhelming parliamentary majority to be named as the next prime minister. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Prime Minister Saad Hariri held a meeting on Monday with Saudi State Minister for Gulf Affairs Thamer al-Sabhan at the Grand Serail, the National News Agency reported.
The meeting took place in the presence of the Prime Minister’s aide Nader Hariri. Nader Hariri.
Talks focused on the latest local and regional developments as well as the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Lebanese military source denies reports of direct military coordination with the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah. Rejecting a local media report of direct military cooperation between the two, the military source said that the Lebanese army will not coordinate with the Syrian army or Hezbollah […]
By Zeina Karam and Philip Issa | AP October 31 BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years and injecting hope that the country’s long-running political paralysis would come […]
Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens in mainly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, a day after IS lost the last stretch of the Syria-Turkey border under its control. The deadliest in the wave of blasts […]