PHOTOS: Prominent Lebanese figure meets Syrian insurgent who led Assad's ouster, seeking better relations Jumblatt’s father, Kamal, was killed in 1977 in an ambush near a Syrian roadblock during ...

Jumblatt blamed Syria for the 1977 assassination of his father, Kamal Jumblatt, during the Lebanese civil war. In 2006, Jumblatt called Assad a "whale vomited out of the ocean" and a "snake from which ...

Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is the most prominent Lebanese politician to visit Syria since the Assad family's 54-year rule ...