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2017 · Lebanon History

• 20 April 2017Groundbreaking for the new US embassy compound in Awkar: $1 billion on 43 acres
• 16 June 2017Third extension and the proportional law
• 19 July 2017Trump halts the CIA rebel-arming programme Timber Sycamore
• 21 July 2017Arsal outskirts battle: Hezbollah vs NusraOn 21 July 2017 Hezbollah began an attack on the outskirts of Arsal and Flita against the Nusra Front (Hayat Tahrir…
• 17 August 2017The salary scale and its tax package passed
• 19 August 2017Operation "Dawn of the Outskirts"From 19 to 27 August 2017 the army fought Operation "Dawn of the Outskirts" against ISIS on the outskirts of Ras…
• 27 August 2017Remains of the soldiers held by ISIS recoveredOn 27 August 2017, as Operation "Dawn of the Outskirts" ended, the army commander Joseph Aoun announced the discovery…
• 7 October 2017State Security arrests three Mossad collaborators in Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath al-Jebbeh and Deir Qanoun
• 25 October 2017Hamad bin Jassim: Syria was "prey we fought over, and it got away"In an interview with Qatari television in October 2017, the former Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Hamad bin…
• 4 November 2017Saad Hariri held in Saudi ArabiaOn 4 November 2017 Saad Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh on a Saudi channel in a speech attacking Iran and…
• 5 November 2017Nasrallah: Hariri's resignation is a Saudi decision and he is being heldOn 5 November 2017, the day after Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the…
• 5 December 2017Hariri withdraws his resignationOn 5 December 2017, after returning from Saudi Arabia via Paris on 21 November and President Aoun's request that he…
• 6 December 2017Trump recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capitalOn 6 December 2017 Trump announced the United States' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and the moving of…
• 11 December 2017Jerusalem solidarity demonstration in Dahieh