Saudi, Kuwaiti and Qatari officials meet in Damascus with FM Khaddam, seek to mediate cease-fire in Tripoli.
Rumsfeld makes first official visit to Damascus, meets FM Khaddam;
The start of talks between the head of the Executive Board of the Lebanese Forces, Elie Hobeika, and Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam
Lebanese Moslem militia leaders agreed tonight on new security measures to go into effect tomorrow to halt fighting in West Beirut and end shortages of gasoline and bread there. The agreement between Nabih Berri, the leader of the Shiite Moslem Amal militia, and Walid Jumblat, head of the Druse Progressive Socialist Party, followed a three-hour […]
One of the most sensitive revelations in the memoirs of the late Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, in terms of the relationship between money and power, is his account that Syria’s state reserves—then amounting to $12 billion, according to the text—were registered in the name of the late President Hafez al-Assad rather than in […]
Six Days Before the Assassination… Khaddam Told Hariri: “Leave Lebanon.” Hariri Replied: “I Have Elections.” Abdul Halim Khaddam with Rafik Hariri in June 2001 (AFP) Six days before the assassination of Rafik Hariri, Abdul Halim Khaddam recounts in his memoirs that he sat down with the former Lebanese prime minister at his home in Beirut […]
Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam reveals new details in his memoirs, edited and presented by Ibrahim Hamidi, about the meeting between former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Damascus in the summer of 2004. He describes it as the harshest meeting during the period preceding the […]
