A top judge has issued a special plea to the four suspects named in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri killing to come before the court.
The judge of a U.N. special tribunal on Friday lifted a confidentiality order in the investigation of the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, revealing the names of the suspects.
Interpol, the international police agency, issued wanted persons alerts Wednesday in connection with the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others.
Hezbollah repeated claims Israel was behind an assassination of PM Hariri. CNN's Rima Maktabi reports.
A judge with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has issued arrest warrants for suspects in the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah repeated his stance that Israel was behind the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister six years ago and slammed the U.N.-backed court for sowing discord in Lebanon.
Hezbollah's leader plans to speak Saturday about the indictment of four party members in the assassination six years ago of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister.
One dead politician in a tiny Arab country and now, six years on, the quest for justice in his assassination divides a people and could add to regional instability.
On a pedestrianized street in central Beirut, there are nine silver footprints set in the pavement. They mark the steps of Rafik Hariri after he left one of his favorite cafes opposite Lebanon's parliament on February 14, 2005.
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Nearly three years after agreeing to a deal ending a tense -- at times violent -- stalemate, Hezbollah's leader on Sunday stood by his party's decision this week to withdraw from Lebanon's unity government and refused to back Prime Minister Saad Hariri's bid to stay in power.
Members of the powerful Hezbollah movement and its allies brought down Lebanon's unity government Wednesday after resigning from Prime Minister Saad Hariri's Cabinet.
Any indictment handed down by a U.N.-backed court looking into the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will be "null and void," Iran's supreme leader said Monday.
The leaders of Lebanon and Syria vowed to improve cooperation between their two countries Sunday, tying up a meeting aimed at thawing frozen relations.
Hezbollah's leader accused a German magazine of engaging in a conspiracy with Israel and the West after it reported that the militia group orchestrated the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The militia group Hezbollah has dismissed a German magazine report that it was behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, calling the accusations "fabrications."
Four generals held without charges since 2005 in connection with the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were freed Wednesday on orders from the U.N. tribunal investigating the killing.
The United Nations Sunday launched a special tribunal to prosecute the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
CNN's Cal Perry examines the feelings in Lebanon for the U.N. tribunal investigating the death of former PM Rafiq Hariri.
The tribunal established to prosecute people allegedly responsible for the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others will officially convene at The Hague in Netherlands on Sunday.
Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, a traumatic event in the nation's post-civil war history.
The investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister continues to roil the Middle East
The 10th progress report on the U.N.'s investigation into the Lebanese prime minister's assassination doesn't satisfy those who suspect Syrian involvement
The head of Hezbollah threatened "open war" against Israel as mourners gathered in Beirut Thursday for the funeral of a senior commander in the Islamic militant group organization killed this week.
A high-ranking Lebanese army general was killed in an explosion in Beirut's Christian suburb of Baabda.
A high-ranking Lebanese army general and his bodyguard were killed in an explosion in Beirut's Christian suburb of Baabda Wednesday, military intelligence sources told CNN.
A bitterly divided Lebanese parliament adjourned Tuesday without officially beginning the process of selecting a new president.
A massive bombing in Beirut on Wednesday killed anti-Syrian Lebanese parliamentarian Antoine Ghanem.
Lebanon prepared to bury anti-Syrian parliament member Walid Eido on Thursday, a day after a bomb killed him and nine others in Beirut.
A member of the Lebanese parliament died in a Beirut bomb blast Wednesday -- the latest anti-Syrian politician to be killed in the country.
Lebanon's prime minister stood firm against calls to resign after a pair of bombs aboard commuter buses killed three people Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands packed Martyrs Square in Beirut on Thursday to honor slain Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, cheering speeches by his supporters who turned the funeral into a show of defiance against Hezbollah and its Syrian backers.
Lebanon's depleted government Monday approved a United Nations draft setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A "considerable number of new leads" have emerged in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to the latest report released Monday by a commission of U.N.-appointed investigators.
A prosecutor investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is asking the U.N. Security Council to extend his mandate for one year.
Fortune: Beirut bombshellupdated: Thu May 11 2006 12:00:00
Last year, when Syrian intelligence operatives were implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, their motive seemed clear: to neutralize a political opponent of ...
Fortune: Beirut bombshellupdated: Thu May 04 2006 11:30:00
Last year, when Syrian intelligence operatives were implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, their motive seemed clear: to neutralize a political opponent of Syria's three-decade occupation of Lebanon.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened to "break" Lebanon if the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri did not support a longer term for President Emile Lahoud, a pro-Syrian politician, Lebanon's prime minister claimed Sunday.
Brazilian police said they have arrested a woman wanted for questioning in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A year after the brutal slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered in Martyrs Square to celebrate his life and sustain political support for the country's so-called Cedar Revolution that swept Syrian troops out of the country last year.
President Bush on Friday promised the son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri that his father's assassination will receive a "full and firm investigation."
The United States has put Syria on notice, warning that further action would be taken by the U.N. Security Council if Damascus continued to obstruct the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Former Syrian vice president Abdel-Halim Khaddam has met with United Nations investigators probing the February bombing death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Khaddam aide confirmed to CNN Saturday.
Syria's former vice president says the country's leader is a "traitor" who has damaged Syria and caused it to be alienated from the Arab world.
U.N. investigators looking into the assassination of a former Lebanese leader have asked to interview Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, a spokesperson for the investigators said.
A day after Syria's former vice president made a series of damning remarks about President Bashar al-Assad, the country's lawmakers stood behind their leader and said that Abdul Halim Khaddam should be tried for treason for his comments.
A Syrian was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the assassination earlier this month of Gibran Tueni, the anti-Syrian general manager and columnist of Lebanon's leading newspaper.
Tens of thousands lined the streets of central Beirut Wednesday for the funeral of Gebran Tueni, an anti-Syrian member of parliament and head of a prominent newspaper who was killed Monday in a car bombing.
Syria's reluctance to cooperate with U.N. investigators probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri may delay the findings for up to two years, the head of that investigation said Tuesday.
The latest report from U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis says investigators still believe that "top-ranked Syrian and Lebanese officials" were involved in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
A stormy Lebanese Cabinet session Monday ended with a call for an international investigation into a string of high-profile attacks on critics of Syrian involvement of Lebanon, spurring five pro-Syrian ministers to suspend participation in the government.
A man who called himself "the main witness" in the U.N. investigation of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said his testimony was coerced by Hariri's son and his advisors, the Syrian news agency SANA reported Monday.
Two members of a U.N. team investigating the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Friday interviewed Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, his office said.
Syria has received a formal request from the United Nations to interrogate several suspects in its investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Syrian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
Two Lebanese brothers were charged Wednesday in connection with the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, presidential spokesman Rafic Shalala said.
Two Lebanese brothers were charged Wednesday in connection with the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, presidential spokesman Rafic Shalala said.
Syria's foreign ministry adviser has said his country was an easy target for U.N. investigators examining who was behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The son of slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri said Saturday his father was a "martyr" and called for an international court to exact justice on his assassins.
President Bush on Friday urged the United Nations to quickly address the findings of its report implicating Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
U.N. investigators have found "converging evidence" of Lebanese and Syrian involvement in the February killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a released report has concluded.
Lebanese officials have asked France to extradite a Syrian man to face charges in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, judicial sources said Tuesday.
A powerful explosion rocked a predominately Christian area in eastern Beirut around midnight, killing one person and wounding at least 20 others, according to Lebanese security sources and local media reports.
Four pro-Syrian Lebanese generals have been charged with offenses linked to the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to a source close to the prime minister's office.
The head of the United Nations probe of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri said investigators believe the five suspects already arrested are not the only people involved in the bombing, but only the cooperation of Syria will give them the full picture.
Three former top Lebanese security officials detained in early morning raids Tuesday are suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the current prime minister said.
A car bomb has killed an anti-Syrian politician in Beirut, a day after opposition leader Saad Hariri's camp won Lebanon's parliamentary elections.
Candidates led by the son of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were projected to win a solid victory in Lebanon's final round of parliamentary elections Sunday, but official results were not expected until Monday, a Hariri aide said.
A German prosecutor heading the U.N. investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri has said the blast that killed the former Lebanese prime minister came from an explosives-packed truck.
The opposition bloc led by a son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has won a decisive victory in round one of Lebanon parliamentary sections.
Under pressure from the United Nations and opposition politicians, Lebanon's security chief said he was putting his fate in the hands of Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said Tuesday he had formed a new government.
Pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has named former government minister Najib Mikati as prime minister-designate.
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously authorized an international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
An Arabic-language satellite channel has broadcast a videotape that it said showed images recorded seconds before the explosion that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February.
Lebanese security forces on Sunday were investigating the bombing of a mainly Christian neighborhood of Beirut that came just hours before the traditional midnight Mass celebration of Easter.
A fact-finding team investigating last month's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has blamed Syria's government for the political tension that preceded the killing, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
A bomb has ripped through a shopping mall in a predominantly Christian area north of Beirut, Lebanon, killing three people and wounding at least two others, police said.
A car bomb has ripped through a predominantly Christian area of Beirut early Saturday, sheering off part of a multi-story office building and raising concerns about more violence in the volatile Lebanese capital.
Hundreds of thousands gathered in Beirut for what organizers called the largest opposition rally since the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri four weeks ago.
The United States supports the Lebanese people's expression of democratic aspirations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said.
Lebanon's president says his government will share with a U.N. inquiry any evidence gathered on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
Thousands of people took to the streets Friday in various parts of Lebanon as opposition leaders called for people around the world to support a peaceful "uprising" against Syrian armed forces in Lebanon and the pro-Syrian government.
Swiss DNA and explosives experts are set to arrive in Lebanon to help investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Relations between the U.S. and Syria are coming under increasing pressure after the U.S. admitted it has "an increasing list of problems" with the country.
The body of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon, has been buried amid a passionate crush of mourners crowded around the mosque Hariri helped build.
A U.N. special envoy says he warned former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri about a "very high risk for violence and assassinations" just days before Hariri was killed in Monday's deadly bomb blast.
The United States announced Tuesday the recall of its ambassador to Syria in response to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Lebanon's opposition says it holds Syria and the pro-Damascus Lebanese government responsible for the death of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was among 10 people killed on Monday when a massive bomb blast hit his motorcade in central Beirut.
The death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has drawn worldwide condemnation. Here is a selection of comments as reported by CNN, The Associated Press and Reuters:
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was among those killed Monday in the massive explosion that rocked central Beirut's fashionable seafront district.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has been killed in a huge blast in Beirut, with several others killed and injured.
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri has resigned along with his government and said he would not lead a new government.
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