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FILE - Former Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, speaks to journalists at the presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 22, 2020. Bassil who heads the Free Patriotic Movement, Lebanon’s largest Christian party, said Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, that a 15-year-old alliance with the country's powerful Shiite group Hezbollah was no longer working and must evolve. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanese Christian Leader: Alliance With Hezbollah Imperiled

The head of Lebanon’s largest Christian party said on Sunday that a 15-year-old alliance with the country’s powerful Shiite group Hezbollah was no longer working and must evolve. The televised…

AP 02 January 2022

A man helps a woman burn a poster showing the picture of the then-Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil during a demonstration on the highway that links the capital Beirut to the northern city of Tripoli, in the area of Jal el-Dib in the northeastern outskirts of the capital, on October 26, 2019 on the tenth day of protest against tax increases and official corruption.

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Gebran Bassil’s Sanctions Blow Hezbollah’s National Cover

In a surprising, albeit overdue move, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned earlier this month Gebran Bassil – Lebanon’s former foreign minister and the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun - for…

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Gebran Bassil's Dispute with Hezbollah

When the Lebanese Civil War ended, Rafic El Hariri set out to bring back normal life to Lebanon, and of course, he started with the political apparatus of the country. As such he made a…

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