Speaking to Al Jazeera on Saturday night, Jumblatt said he had “offended Assad during a moment of anger,” adding that he knew his words must have been intolerable to the Syrian leader.

Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March 14 alliance that is ...

Bottom Photo: Walid Jumblatt meets with then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Saad Hariri’s headquarters in Beirut after the Doha Accord ended fighting in Lebanon. Credit: Dalati & Nohra / NNA ...

Lebanon’s Druze leader Jumblatt resigns as political party chief. After stepping down at 73, Walid Jumblatt calls for elections to choose the Progressive Socialist Party’s next leader.