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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/hezbollah-sparks-political-crisis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Lebanon's prime minister Saad Hariri has been asked to stay on in a caretaker capacity (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-hezbollah-sparks-political-crisis.jpg" alt="Lebanon's prime minister Saad Hariri has been asked to stay on in a caretaker capacity (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The collapse of Lebanon&#8217;s government has plunged the country into deep political uncertainty as the president begins putting a new administration together.</p>
<p>President Michel Suleiman asked Saad Hariri to stay on as caretaker prime minister after the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies resigned on Wednesday and brought down Mr Hariri&#8217;s government.</p>
<p>The crisis was the climax of tensions that have been simmering for months over the UN tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of Mr Hariri&#8217;s father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri.</p>
<p>The tribunal is widely expected to indict members of Hezbollah soon, which many fear could rekindle violence in the tiny nation plagued for decades by war and civil strife.</p>
<p>Lebanon suffered through a devastating civil war from 1975-1990, a 1982 Israeli invasion to drive out Palestinian fighters in the south followed by a 20-year occupation of the south, a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, and deadly sectarian fighting between the country&#8217;s Sunnis and Shiites in 2008.</p>
<p>The collapse of the government ushers in the worst political crisis since 2008 in one of the most volatile corners of the Middle East.</p>
<p>Arab League chief Amr Moussa expressed concern that Lebanon could again descend into chaos.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is bad. It is tense. It is threatening,&#8221; he said of the situation. &#8220;All of us have to work together in order to reach some kind of compromise,&#8221; he told reporters in Doha, Qatar.</p>
<p>Israel also said it was worried about renewed violence on its northern border with Lebanon. Israeli troops in the north of the country are on alert.</p>
<p>Lebanon&#8217;s 14-month-old unity government was an uneasy coalition linking bitter rivals &#8211; a Western-backed bloc led by Mr Hariri and the Shiite Hezbollah &#8211; in an attempt to stabilise the country. But in reality, it had been paralysed for months because of disputes over the Hariri tribunal.</p>
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