Rafik Hariri tribunal: Verdict due over assassination of Lebanon ex-PM
The long-awaited verdict is due in the trial of four men allegedly involved in the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri and 21 others in a 2005 bombing.
The defendants - suspected members of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah - were tried in absentia by a special tribunal in the Netherlands.
Outrage at the attack in Beirut forced Hezbollah's backer Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon after 29 years.
Hezbollah and Syria's government denied any involvement in the attack.
More than 220 people were also injured when a van filled with explosives blew up as Mr Hariri's convoy passed along Beirut's seafront corniche.
The killing was a watershed moment for Lebanon and gave rise to rival alliances that shaped Lebanese politics for years afterwards.
Mr Hariri's son, Saad, led the anti-Syrian, pro-Western grouping that emerged, and subsequently served three terms as prime minister himself.
He is expected to be at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which is based in a village on the outskirts of The Hague, when the verdict is delivered on Tuesday.
The whereabouts of the four accused - Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hassan Habib Merhi, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra - are not known.
None of them commented on the trial. But their court-appointed defence lawyers dismissed the prosecution's case, saying it relied on circumstantial evidence and did not prove they were guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
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