Aoun, Nasrallah to Meet first time in 2 years

(MENAFN) Although Hezbollah announced that it would not "abandon" its Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) ally, Michel Aoun, the latter was expected to meet with Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah to iron out differences.

Such a meeting, the first in over two years, would presumably address the ongoing rift among March 8 partners whose differences surfaced on Monday around the national dialogue table.

In what was a renewed escalatory step, the FPM's Jibran Bassil declared his group intended to boycott both the cabinet and national dialogue sessions though he took to the airwaves on Tuesday to clarify his positions.

Bassil pledged to "use all political and popular means to rectify this abnormal situation", as he renewed his attacks on Sunnis when he reiterated that he and his group will not "accept a return to the era between 1990 and 2005".