Saudi FM summons Lebanese envoy over ISIL-related comments

Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry summoned Lebanon's ambassador on Tuesday to hand over a memorandum protesting against what it described as "offenses" made by caretaker foreign minister Charbel Wehbe.

According to the Reuters news agency, Wehbe threatened to stoke new tensions in a television interview on Monday, when he appeared to blame the Persian Gulf states for the rise of ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and neighboring Syria.

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