Rafic Hariri

A portrait of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad covers posters of Lebanon's assasinated ex-premier Rafiq Hariri (L) and his son Saad on a wall in a west Beirut neighbourhood,
Farouk al-Sharaa testifies
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The tense final meeting between Rafic Hariri and Bashar al-Assad

The latest instalment of Farouk al-Sharaa’s released memoirs includes an excerpt from the transcript of Rafic Hariri's final meeting with Bashar al-Assad.

Farouk al-Sharaa
13 June, 2025
Syrian former Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa addressing the media during a press conference in Helsinki, 21 May 2002 [Jaakko Avikainen/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty]
Farouk al-Sharaa testifies
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Farouk al-Sharaa testifies: Rafic Hariri was a friend

Farouk al-Sharaa

Farouk al-Sharaa

08 May, 2025
Saad Hariri greets his supporters as he arrives to deliver a speech to mark 20 years since the assassination of his father, in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on February 14, 2025. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thousands mark 20 years since Lebanon ex-PM Rafic Hariri killed

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14 February, 2025
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Hezbollah leader, Hariri assassin ‘killed in Israeli strike’

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11 November, 2024
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Thousands commemorate 2005 killing of Lebanon ex-PM Hariri

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14 February, 2024
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Lebanon tribunal sentences two men for Hariri bombing

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16 June, 2022
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Lebanon Tribunal convicts another two men for 2005 bombing

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 March, 2022
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Cash-strapped Lebanon court scraps start of new trial

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03 June, 2021
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Hezbollah fugitive can't appeal over Hariri murder: court

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 April, 2021
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Killer of Lebanon's Hariri to be sentenced in December

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01 December, 2020
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Hariri prosecutors seek life term for Hezbollah operative

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11 November, 2020
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Hariri murder verdict disappoints ex-PM supporters in Lebanon

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 August, 2020
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Saudi calls for Hezbollah's 'punishment' after Hariri verdict

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19 August, 2020
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Lebanon's Hezbollah says will ignore Hariri killing verdict

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15 August, 2020
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Lebanon delays Hariri murder case verdict after Beirut blast

The New Arab Staff
05 August, 2020
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Who are the accused in Rafic Hariri murder trial?

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03 August, 2020
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Rafic Hariri murder suspect charged with three more killings

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16 September, 2019
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'Western intelligence' warned Hariri of assassination plot

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05 November, 2017
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Lebanese police summon man for photoshopping Rafic Hariri posters

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09 February, 2016
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Assad 'insulted' and threatened Hariri before his assassination

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24 March, 2015