Hezbollah Chooses Lebanon’s Next Prime Minister
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A prime minister chosen by Hezbollah and its allies was poised Monday to form Lebanon’s next government, unleashing angry protests, realigning politics here and in parts of the Mideast and culminating the generation-long ascent of the Shiite Muslim movement from shadowy militant group to the country’s pre-eminent political and military force. –> –> A practical impact may be the realignment of Lebanon away from the United States, which treated the government of Saad Hariri as an ally. The government that Najib Miqati, a billionaire and former prime minister, forms may in the end look much like past cabinets in this small Mediterranean country and, indeed,…
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