Reuters exclusive with Hezbollah group admitting defeat in Lebanon election

Reuters broke the news everyone was waiting for from the Lebanese election when our reporters cited a senior source close to the Hezbollah alliance acknowledging that it had lost the parliamentary vote. The story on June 7 was widely cited in Lebanon and across the Arab world with no other media able to match the story on Hezbollah’s concession until the following day. Politicians from both the pro-Syrian and the pro-American camp rang our office to discuss the story. The vote was a boost to the United States and a blow to Iranian and Syrian interests in Lebanon and may help Washington reshape the geopolitics of the region.