BEIRUT (Reuters) - Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri returned to Lebanon on Friday for the first time in three years, on a visit seen as reasserting a moderate influence over the Sunni community following a deadly incursion by Islamist militants.
Hariri, Lebanon's most influential Sunni politician, left Lebanon in 2011 after his government was toppled by a coalition including the Iranian-backed Shi'ite group Hezbollah, and has split his time between France and Saudi Arabia, whose rulers support him.
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