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French President Jacques Chirac has called for an international tribunal to try Syrian and Lebanese suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) submitted its interim...

Lebanese prosecutors have charged two men in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , sources reported Wednesday. The two men, brothers Ahmad and Mahmoud Abdel-Al, were both named last week by a report [text; JURIST...

The United States and France circulated a draft UN resolution Tuesday that demands that Syria fully cooperate with a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and threatens economic sanctions should...

Report of the International Independent Investigating Commission Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1595 (2005) [Mehlis Commission report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, suggesting that both Syria and Lebanon were involved in the assassination plot...

A report, submitted Thursday to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the results of an independent UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri links high-ranking Syrian officials...

The UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri moved to Syria Monday, after Lebanon charged four pro-Syrian generals with planning Hariri's death earlier this month. Chief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis...

Lebanon on Wednesday released a former lawmaker questioned in the investigation into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . Nasser Qandil, a pro-Syrian legislator, refused to comment on what he told investigators after...

Lebanon has arrested three former pro-Syrian security chiefs, and the head of the presidential guard Mustafa Hamdan turned himself into authorities after an arrest warrant was issued for him in connection with the killing of former...

The UN Security Council unanimously voted Thursday to authorize an international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The United States, France, and Britain sponsored the resolution which gives an independent...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown out a deportation order against a Syrian family which claimed its father would be tortured if returned to Syria. The family, which has lived in the Seattle...