Lebanon

Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri stepped down after failing to form a government 10 weeks after the election. Hezbollah and its allies blocked the formation of a new government after “rounds and rounds of consultations which always ended in obstruction,” Hariri said.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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