Qatar And Turkey End Lebanon Talks -- Al Jazeera
Qatar and Turkey suspend mediation efforts in Lebanon after Saudi opts out and warns of worse times ahead.
Foreign ministers from Turkey and Qatar have suspended efforts to mediate Lebanon's political crisis after two days of intensive talks with rival parties that failed to clinch a breakthrough.
Their departure from Lebanon on Thursday comes one day after Saudi Arabia also decided to pull out as a mediator from the talks.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, and his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jaber al-Thani, said in a statement released overnight that they were leaving Lebanon after a working draft to break the impasse between Saad Hariri, Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, and Hezbollah was met with "reservations".
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Turkey, Qatar pull out of Lebanon talks -- UPI
Turkey says Lebanese parties not close to agreement -- Reuters
Saudis walk away from effort to end Lebanon's political crisis -- Washington Times
Saudi ends Lebanon mediation, says country at risk -- Reuters
Lebanon mediation fails, fear of escalation -- Emirates 24/7
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Lebanon boosts security; political crisis deepens -- AP
Lebanon's Jumblatt says naming Hariri would be catastrophic -- Jerusalem Post
Hezbollah stages coup drills in Beirut as indictments loom, newspapers say -- APA
My Comment: For the moment I do not see it, but if this political crisis continues this can end up into a very small but messy civil war.
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