Lebanon minister shot dead, Hariri son blames Syria
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Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.
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The former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri, has been killed in an explosion in Beirut. Send your reaction.
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A remote-control Beirut car bomb wounded  a prominent Lebanese opposition politician and killed his  driver Friday, weeks after the former minister quit the  government to protest Syria's grip on Lebanon.
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Lebanon mourned assassinated former  Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Tuesday as opposition leaders  bluntly implicated Syria in the murder and Syrian workers were  attacked in the former prime minister's hometown.
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Lebanon mourned assassinated former  Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri Tuesday as opposition leaders  bluntly implicated Syria in the murder and Syrian workers were  attacked in the former prime minister's hometown.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi oil ministry official Wednesday in Baghdad as a Lebanese-born American was kidnapped in the capital.
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The death of a young man may turn the emotional tide against the Lebanese government
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BEIRUT -- A Lebanese lawmaker who had long been critical of the Syrian regime was killed yesterday along with his son and eight people when a bomb exploded near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.
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BEIRUT, 2 October 2004 - A remote-controlled Beirut car bomb wounded a prominent Lebanese opposition politician and killed his driver yesterday, weeks after the former minister quit the government in protest at Syriaâs grip on Lebanon.
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Four Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday during protests against power cuts, raising tensions in a country gripped by a political crisis.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon resigned yesterday in a sign of deepening divisions within Lebanon's fragile government over the decisive role that Syria, its larger and more powerful neighbor, plays in its political life.
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BEIRUT -- In an unprecedented outpouring of grief and anger, mourners shouted "Syria Out!" as they crowded Beirut's streets yesterday to bury their former prime minister, Rafik Hariri. Lebanon's pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud, stayed away, warned not to come by Hariri supporters who blame his government and Damascus for his death.
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A bomb has gone off in the Lebanese capital Beirut, injuring a former minister and killing his driver.
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BEIRUT : A Lebanese minister who resigned recently in a dispute over Syria&#39;s domination of the country, was wounded when his car was targeted by a bomb in Beirut, a source at the American University of Beirut hospital said.
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Anti-Syrian Lebanese MP among at least four people killed in Beirut explosion, according to reports.
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Lebanon's Druze opposition leader Walid Jumblatt Tuesday accused Syria and Lebanese authorities of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
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GENEVA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut on  Tuesday has interrupted an 18-month  relative safety for  anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and intellectuals, and signals  the kick-off  of a series of events aiming at totally  destabilising the ailing national government and  dividing the  Christian community in the country -- and possibly plunging the  entire region  into chaos.