Pressured by enormous antigovernment protests over corruption and dysfunction, Saad Hariri said he and his cabinet would resign. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon said on Tuesday that he and his cabinet would resign, bowing to a basic demand of the enormous antigovernment protests that have consumed the country …
On a sunny afternoon in mid-June, several hundred students and lecturers from the Lebanese University, in Beirut, gathered in a square outside the Prime Minister’s office. Some stood on top of a pickup truck loaded with loudspeakers, leading chants against proposed government budget cuts to the university. “We want to …
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s prime minister, Saad Hariri, was summoned at 8:30 a.m. to the Saudi royal offices — unseemly early, by the kingdom’s standards — on the second day of a visit that was already far from what he had expected. Mr. Hariri, long an ally of the Saudis, …
Saad Hariri is finally back in Lebanon but his future, and that of the country, are far from clear. BEIRUT — Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri on Wednesday suspended his shock resignation delivered weeks earlier from Saudi Arabia, marking a stunning return to Beirut after weeks of speculation over his freedom …
Questions are swirling about why Saad Hariri spent two weeks in Saudi Arabia, where he announced his resignation. PARIS — Lebanon’s absent prime minister arrived in France on Saturday morning after two weeks in Saudi Arabia, a mysterious stay that touched off intense speculation that he was being held against …
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s prime minister insisted Sunday on television from Saudi Arabia that he is “free” to move as he pleases, and, in his first interview since his unexpected resignation while in the Saudi capital, he rejected suggestions by his political allies that he was coerced into leaving his post. In …
The disappearance of Lebanon’s prime minister has become a rallying point for the country’s opposing groups. In the fractured politics of Lebanon, leaders of various factions can rarely agree on much. But the uncertain fate of Saad Hariri — who on Nov. 4 announced that he was resigning as prime minister and …
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon is used to affronts to its sovereignty. Israel occupied part of the country for years. Syrian troops stayed even longer. Then the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fought a war with Israel, and waged another in Syria, as the Lebanese government watched. The United States, France and …
In this photo released on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 by Lebanon’s official government photographer Dalati Nohra, showing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s bombshell resignation in a televised speech from …
Few would have imagined, when a massive explosion killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005, that the aftershocks of the blast would be powerful enough to bring down Lebanon’s government six years later. The fragile coalition government led by Hariri’s son, Saad, collapsed on Wednesday in a dispute …