Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister from Saudi Arabia on Nov. 4, will arrive in France "in the coming days" with his family, a source inside the French presidential palace said on Wednesday.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Wednesday Saudi Arabia was also holding the family of Saad al-Hariri, who resigned from his post as Lebanon's prime minister on Nov. 4 from Riyadh and has yet to return to Lebanon.

An Iranian official said on Tuesday Tehran hoped Saad al-Hariri would remain as Lebanon's prime minister and denied Hariri had resigned after a tense meeting with him in Beirut.

From the moment Saad al-Hariri’s plane touched down in Saudi Arabia on Friday Nov. 3, he was in for a surprise.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's recent political purge raises concerns and remains unclear but does not appear to amount to mass arrests, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters on Friday.

France's foreign ministry on Friday nuanced comments made earlier by its minister, suggesting that former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri may not be free and urging that he continue to play his rightful role in the country.

Three Gulf states advised their citizens against traveling to Lebanon on Thursday and asked those already there to leave as soon as possible, amid rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran over Lebanon and Yemen.

Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc called on Saudi Arabia on Thursday to stop interfering in Lebanese affairs after Lebanon’s prime minister quit in a weekend broadcast from the kingdom.

Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri is being held in Saudi Arabia, from where he resigned as Lebanese prime minister, two top government officials in Beirut said, amid a deepening crisis pushing Lebanon onto the frontlines of a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch will visit Saudi Arabia next week and has received “a positive response” from Saudi officials over the possibility of meeting with Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister, his spokesman said.

France’s foreign ministry on Friday nuanced comments made earlier by its minister, suggesting that former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri may not be free and urging that he continue to play his rightful role in the country.

Saudi Arabia has opened a new front in its regional proxy war with Iran, threatening Tehran’s powerful ally Hezbollah and its home country Lebanon to try to regain the upper hand.

Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation of a crisis threatening to destabilize the tiny Arab country.

Bahraini Foreign Ministry called on Bahrainis in Lebanon to leave immediately in a statement, also urging them to completely avoid traveling to Lebanon.

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had blacklisted Hashem Safieddine, a prominent leader of the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah that is a close ally of Riyadh's arch-regional adversary Iran.

Prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric, Sheikh Afif Nabusi, condemned the Bahraini authorities’ raid on protest arena near Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house in Diraz, dubbing it a “malicious attempt” to arrest Sheikh Qassim.

he fourth Abdulrahman Al-Nuaimi Forum was held in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in the presence of Bahraini and Arab Figures.

The Tyre Scholars Gathering denounced the appeals court sentence against the Bahraini opposition leader, and Secretary General of al-Wefaq Society, Sheikh Ali Salman. The

Bahraini “Awal Center for Studies and Documentation” launched at the beginning of this month (December 2016), its latest publication for 2016, the book “Mr. Ambassador: Mohammad Javad Zarif”, in its booth in the Beirut International Book Fair.

Bahrain Mirror and Awal Centre for Studies and Documentation are taking part in the Beirut Arab International Book Fair that takes place in Beirut between December 1-14, 2016.