BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived in Beirut on Friday for talks on possible indictments of Syria’s allies in Lebanon in the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister. Mr. Assad’s visit, his first in five years, underlined the re-emergence of Syria in Lebanon’s political life. Once the arbiter of Lebanese politics, Syria saw its influence dramatically wane in the wake of the killing of the former prime...
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