The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to unilaterally establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri but major powers Russia and China abstained. In Lebanon, Hariri supporters cheered and danced in the street to celebrate the decision.
Russia cautioned the United States on Wednesday against further destabilizing Lebanon with U.S. arms shipments and to closely follow international agreements in delivering such aid.
A deeply divided U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Wednesday to unilaterally establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Lebanon on Wednesday clamped down on security as the divided country nervously awaited a UN Security Council vote on setting up an international court to try suspects in ex-premier Rafiq Hariri's murder.
Lebanon was anxiously awaiting a UN Security Council vote Wednesday on the creation of an international court for the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, an issue at the core of an acute political crisis that has paralysed the government for months.
Jihadists battling the Lebanese army in north Lebanon were either on their way to or from Iraq, Palestinian political sources believe, a sign that the shadow of Sunni militancy there has started to fall over Arab countries nearby.
The U.N. Security Council narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday to unilaterally establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri but major powers Russia and China abstained.
Lebanon charged 20 members of Fatah al-Islam with terrorism on Wednesday and Lebanese troops battled jihadists from the militant group at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north for an 11th day.
Crowded into schools with little food and deteriorating sanitary conditions, life is growing more miserable by the day for thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled fighting in northern Lebanon.
Russia cautioned the United States on Wednesday against further destabilising Lebanon with U.S. arms shipments and to closely follow international agreements in delivering such aid.