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Oct 4 2008, Marco Villa

Saudi Arabia is not a nation to take a backseat to its regional developments, and Lebanon has been no exception. The Kingdom intervened in the 1975-1990 Civil War between right-wing Christian factions and the left-wing predominantly Arab nationalist..

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