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Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora formally asked UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Saturday to extend the inquiry into the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri for six...

Lebanese Defense Minister Elias al-Murr announced Thursday that Lebanon will ask the UN Security Council to extend for another six months its investigation into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . UN...

Australia's Labor Party leader Kim Beazley said Thursday that the controversial sedition provisions set to be included in Australia's new anti-terror laws lower the country "to the standard of North Korea, Syria and Cuba." On...

Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called for evidence implicating Syrians in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to be scrutinized in the wake of an admission by Syrian witness, Hosam Taher...

Hosam Taher Hosam, a Syrian witness who told the UN committee investigating the death of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri that Syrian and Lebanese officials had a hand in the February 14 assassination...

Syria agreed Friday to allow UN investigators to question five unidentified Syrian officials at the Vienna UN offices in connection with the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri ....

Syria has requested a formal "cooperation protocol" with the United Nations which would govern the country's assistance with a UN investigation into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . A draft given...

German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri returned to Lebanon Tuesday as he prepares to close the investigation and prepare a final...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday criticised Syria for its "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists "including Kamal Labwani and all the prisoners of conscience from the Damascus Spring" during a...

Syria has invited German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , to visit Damascus to discuss cooperation between UN investigators and the Syrian...