FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the damaged port area in the aftermath of a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fifteen years after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, Hezbollah has risen to become the overarching power in a country that is now collapsing under its feet amid a series of devastating crises.
A U.N.-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted a member of the Iranian-backed group of conspiring to kill Hariri in a 2005 bombing and acquitted three others.
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