Anti-Syrian journalist and politician Gibran Tueni was killed by a car bomb this morning, a day after he returned from France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination.

Syria is trying to obstruct the UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri, but will not succeed, the head of the commission into the killing of the former prime minister said today.

Syria is fighting back hard against the UN inquiry into the killing of a Lebanese politician, touting a witness who now says his testimony against Syrian officials was false. But some in Lebanon say Syria is just manoeuvring to discredit an investigation that could lead to its doorstep.

Syrian Prosecutor-General Ghada Murad has invited the chief UN investigator into the assassination of Rafik Hariri for talks on co-ordinating his probe with Syria’s newly appointed investigation.

Syria is considering a UN request to question six Syrian officials in the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Foreign Ministry official said today.

The chief UN investigator into the assassination of a former Lebanese premier has summoned six senior Syrian intelligence officers, including President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law, for questioning, a Lebanese official said today.

SYRIA has responded angrily to a UN resolution warning that it faced possible further action if it refuses to cooperate with the UN investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Syria’s foreign minister went before the United Nations Security Council, angrily rejecting a resolution passed unanimously just an hour before, demanding that Damascus co-operate more with a probe into the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister.

THE UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution last night demanding Syria's full co-operation with a UN investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister and warned of possible "further action" if it doesn't.

Beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered the creation of a special judicial committee yesterday to investigate the murder of a former Lebanese prime minister, as Damascus continued its scramble to ease intense and growing international pressure.

HUNDREDS of thousands of Syrians rallied yesterday against a UN report implicating Damascus in the killing of Lebanon’s former prime minister as the government pulled out all the stops to show it enjoys support at home, if not abroad.

THE brother-in-law of Syria’s president has been implicated in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to a UN inquiry.

The Lebanese police and army took additional security measures today as the country awaited the findings of a UN probe into the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri.

French police have arrested a former Syrian intelligence officer who is considered an important witness in the UN probe into former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination, officials said today.

Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said today that three former Lebanese security chiefs and the commander of the Presidential Guards are suspects in the UN investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

A German prosecutor leading a UN-mandated investigation into the February assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri confirmed today that a truck bombing caused the explosion that killed Hariri.