Reuters, Beirut, 8 August 2014 – Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri arrived in Lebanon on Friday in his first visit to the country in three years.
Footage broadcast by local television stations showed Hariri arriving at government headquarters in Beirut, where he was due to meet Prime Minister Tammam Salam.
Hariri, Lebanon’s most influential Sunni politician, has been in self-imposed exile between France and Saudi Arabia since 2011. He left the country after his government was toppled by a coalition including the Iranian-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah.