Lebanon

Najib Mikati, the Hezbollah-backed candidate, has been voted by parliament as the new prime minister. Supporters of Saad Hariri, the former prime minister who was ousted by a Hezbollah walkout, have taken to the streets to protest.

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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