Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Wednesday that he will not be a candidate for the premiership, day before parliamentary consultations. In a statement, Hariri said: “I announce I will not be a candidate to form the next government.” He said, however, that his parliamentary bloc, Al-Mustqbal, will take ...
Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil declared that “the situation does not bode well and what happened in Syria is threatening to happen in Lebanon and the tragedy of displacement is a joint responsibility.” Speaking from Geneva at the World Refugee Conference, Bassil addressed the conferees saying, “You have to bear ...