Salam Performs Eid Prayer alongside Saudi King in Mecca

Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Wednesday performed the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Sacred Mosque in Mecca alongside Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz and and members of the royal family, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

The premier then attended a breakfast banquet that was thrown by the Saudi monarch, during which he "offered his condolences over the victims of the latest terrorist attacks that struck the Saudi cities of Medina, Jeddah and Qatif, NNA said.

"Lebanon stands by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its battle against terrorism," announced Salam, adding that terrorism "has no respect to the sanctity of any place or innocent lives and has nothing to do with Islam."

Salam also voiced certainty that the kingdom would prevail in its fight against fanaticism.