

World Aug 17

More than 15 years after the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, a U.N.-backed tribunal is announcing verdicts this week in the trial of four members of the militant group Hezbollah allegedly involved in…
By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press
World Jan 16

A trial for the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri began Thursday. Photo by Flickr user Mary Madigan The trial for the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri…
By News Desk
World Oct 24

Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya News, Michele Dunne, director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council, and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace speak with Gwen Ifill…
World Feb 03

Special correspondent Kira Kay reports from Beirut about how an international tribunal's investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 other people might help end the nation's political violence or shatter the fragile stability after decades…
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who recently returned from a trip to the Middle East where he visited several countries including U.S. foe Syria, discusses how he thinks Iraq's neighbors can help ease the sectarian violence.
Crowds in Lebanon paid their respects to Pierre Gemayel, the Christian Cabinet minister who was gunned down in Beirut this week. In the wake of the assassination of the prominent anti-Syrian leader, analysts discuss threats to stability in Lebanon.
Jan 02

By Admin, PBS NewsHour
Officials in Damascus and the U.N. continued to react to the explosive allegations made by the former Syrian vice president in which he said Syrian President Bashar Assad threatened Rafik Hariri several months before Hariri was assassinated.
Dec 12

By PBS NewsHour
A new U.N. report outlining details of the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has identified 19 suspects in the crime.
Dec 04

By PBS NewsHour
U.N. officials investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will question five Syrian witnesses in Vienna starting Monday, a senior U.N. official said.
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