PARIS – Saad Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, said on Saturday he returns to Beirut in the coming week and clarify his position.
Hariri’s resignation on Nov. 4 threw Lebanon into political crisis and put it at center stage in the Middle East’s overarching rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and its allies and a bloc led by Shiite Iran.
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