Grass-roots fury rippled across Lebanon on Tuesday as a Hezbollah-backed politician got the nod to be the fractious country's new prime minister.
Grass-roots fury rippled across Lebanon on Tuesday as a Hezbollah-backed politician got the nod as the fractious country's new prime minister.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri says that Lebanon should follow a constitutional path to form a new government.
The political crisis unfolding in Lebanon for several weeks heated up Monday with street demonstrations across the country, while supporters of the outgoing prime minister accused Iranian-backed Hezbollah of attempting a take control of the government.
Hezbollah will announce its pick for a new prime minister Monday and won't be "pressured" by an international tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of a former premier, its leader said Sunday night.
A political showdown now looms in Lebanon after a potential kingmaker threw his allegiance Friday behind the opposition Hezbollah.
Saad Hariri said Thursday he is ready to stand again as prime minister of Lebanon despite objections from the militant Shiite group Hezbollah.
Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's minister of foreign affairs, said Wednesday that his country had abandoned mediation talks to resolve Lebanon's political crisis that caused the government's collapse last week.
The prosecutor in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Tuesday called the filing of an indictment in the case "an important moment" both for Lebanon and the international community, and he added "our work is far from over."
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned to his crisis-plagued homeland Friday, pledging his cooperation in the forming of a new government.
Lebanon was plunged into uncertainty with the collapse of the country's national unity government. At issue are expectations that a hybrid U.N./Lebanese court will shortly indict members of Hezbollah, widely viewed as Lebanon's most powerful party, in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
With Lebanon bracing for turmoil, CNN's Dan Rivers looks back at how the country returned to the brink.
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.
The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon is urging "all political factions to remain calm and exercise restraint" after the fall of the government this week.
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman asked the country's prime minister Thursday to remain as head of a caretaker administration after Hezbollah and its allies brought down Lebanon's unity government, his office said.
Journalist Jamil Mroue discusses Lebanon's political future after Hezbollah members resign from the unity government.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Iran on Saturday as part of a two-day visit to the country aimed at expanding relations, Iranian state media reported.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel on Monday of having been behind the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia on Friday implored Lebanese officials to shun violence in settling political differences and declared their "solidarity with Lebanon against all Israeli threats."
Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah predicted Thursday that a special U.N. tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will blame elements of his party, but said he would reject any such conclusion.
Thousands gathered in downtown Beirut on Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of former Lebanon Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, a major event that altered the nation's political landscape.
The leaders of Lebanon and Syria vowed to improve cooperation between their two countries Sunday, tying up a meeting aimed at thawing frozen relations.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Damascus on Saturday for his first meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, Hariri's press office said.
The man charged with forming a government in Lebanon said Thursday he would not do so after the opposition rejected his proposed Cabinet.
Saad Hariri is poised to follow in his father's footsteps and become Lebanon's next prime minister, a position he said he "will not shy away from."
CNN's Cal Perry reports on what Lebanese elections mean to other players in the Middle East.
Lebanon's pro-Western bloc will retain its control of the country's government despite a strong challenge from a Hezbollah-dominated alliance, according to official election results released Monday.
Saad Hariri, the leader of Lebanon's Sunni-dominated "March 14 coalition," claimed victory hours after the polls closed in Sunday's crucial election.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is "extremely concerned" about the delay in electing a new Lebanese president, a hiatus that has gone "well past the constitutional timeframe."
Just hours before President Emile Lahoud was scheduled to leave office, an opposition boycott has kept Lebanon's parliament from choosing his successor.
Supporters and opponents of Lebanon's pro-Western government appeared to split seats on Sunday as Lebanese voters went to the polls to replace two ruling-party lawmakers assassinated in recent months.
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.
Crowds of people snaked through the streets of Pierre Gemayel's Christian hometown to mourn the Lebanese industry minister suspected by his supporters of being assassinated by those intent on weakening Lebanon's anti-Syrian government.
Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot and killed by apparent assassins Tuesday in Beirut, senior Lebanese government officials said.
Lebanese Cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel -- a key member of the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese parliament -- has been shot dead in an assassination that raises tensions between opponents and allies of Syria.
Lebanese leaders Wednesday called for the multicultural country to remain united amid an eight-day Israeli bombardment, a call joined by the son of slain 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."
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.
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.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad sat down Wednesday and, in an exclusive interview, spoke to CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
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.
Opposition leader Saad Hariri's anti-Syrian camp has emerged with a resounding victory in Lebanon's parliamentary elections, an official said Monday.
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.
Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian ally Amal have claimed overwhelming victories in phase two of Lebanon's parliamentary elections.
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.
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