Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Friday said a US pledge to keep its troops in Syria to defeat the Islamic State group was just a "flimsy excuse" to occupy the country.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that US forces would remain in Syria to both fight IS and counter the influence of President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad is aRead more
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, reiterated his rejection of Hezbollah's weapons, stressing that current conditions are not appropriate to meet with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, noting that his relationship with Saudi Arabia is not in doubt.
He said that Iran and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad are behind the failure to resolve the Syrian crisis, which entered its seventhRead more
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday called on Saudi Arabia not to collectively punish Lebanon's people just because Riyadh disagreed with the Shiite movement's policies.
In a televised address on his group's Al-Manar network, Nasrallah said Saudi Arabia does not have "the right to sanction the Lebanese people because one particular party took a certain position".
Last week, Riyadh haltedRead more