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Illustration on Iranian proxies by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump rejects the fake separation between Iran and its militias

By Tony Badran

Anti-government protesters stand atop a road sign and flash the victory sign as others block a main highway in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Protesters closed major roads in the capital Beirut and around wide parts of Lebanon paralyzing the country as the political crisis over the formation of a new government worsens. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah warns of ‘chaos’ if Lebanon government delayed

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A supporter of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wears the words &quot;powerful revenge&quot; on her hand, ahead of the leader's televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The placard in her other hand depicts Soleimaini and Iraq's Popular Mobilization forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed in the strike. Arabic on placard reads: &quot;On the road to Jerusalem.&quot; (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hezbollah says payback for US strike has just begun

Associated Press

Posters of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani are placed on chairs as supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gather for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Soleimani. The posters read: &quot;Sayyad of martyrs in the axis of resistance. The martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani.&quot; (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hezbollah: Payback for U.S. strike has just begun

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 29, 2016, file photo, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis listens to a question during an interview in Fallujah, Iraq. Al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with Iran, was killed overnight Friday, Jan. 3, 2020 in a U.S. strike that also felled Iran's top general. Al-Muhandis was the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly Shiite paramilitaries. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraqi militant killed by US worked with Iran for decades

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Marines in Kuwait were dispatched Tuesday to the U.S. Embassy compound in Iraq after a protest led by members of the Iraqi Shiite militia Kataeb Hezbollah turned violent. (Associated Press)

Pentagon sending more troops to guard U.S. Embassy in Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Protesters damage property inside the U.S. Embassy compound, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec 31, 2019. Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Militiamen breach U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; Trump blames Iran

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, center, greets journalists upon his arrival to meet with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Michel Aoun named Diab as prime minister after a day of consultations with lawmakers in which he gained a simple majority of the 128-member parliament. Sixty-nine lawmakers, including the parliamentary bloc of the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal movements as well as lawmakers affiliated with President Michel Aoun gave him their votes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah-backed professor to form new government in Lebanon

By SARAH EL DEEB and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE---Picture taken on July 2, 2019 shows people taking part in a demonstration under the alliance &quot;No Al Quds march 2016! Together against all anti-Semitism!&quot;) at Kurfuerstendamm in Berlin, Germany. Banner left reads &quot;ban Hezbollah&quot;. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)

German parliament calls for full ban of Hezbollah activities

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Lebanese Government, Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, meets with Samir Khatib, the head of a major contracting and construction and once considered a favorite candidate for the post of Prime Minister, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon’s caretaker PM no longer candidate for post

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters remove the fences that was divided between them and the riot police, during a protest near the parliament square, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. Lebanese security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters for a second straight day, ending what started as a peaceful rally in defiance of the toughest crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in two months. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

3rd night of clashes as Lebanon puts off talks on new PM

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo, supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hold his pictures and waves Hezbollah flags in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Iranian-backed Hezbollah built a reputation among supporters in Lebanon as a champion of the poor and a defender of the country against Israel's much more powerful military. Lebanon’s protests have shown unusual overt anger at the country’s powerhouse, Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah insists on a coalition government

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Resigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad, right, arrives to attend a military parade to mark the 76th anniversary of Lebanon's independence from France at the Lebanese Defense Ministry, in Yarzeh near Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Lebanon's top politicians attended the military parade, appearing for the first time since the government resigned amid nationwide protests now in their second month. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s FM calls for emergency government of experts

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 photo, Lebanese anchorwoman Dima Sadek uses her cellphone to film an anti-government protest, in Beirut, Lebanon. Sadek, who last month resigned as an anchorwoman at the LBC TV, blamed Hezbollah supporters for robbing her smartphone while she was filming protests, and said the harassment was followed by insulting and threatening phone calls to her mother, who suffered a stroke as a result of the stress. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s journalists suffer abuse, threats covering unrest

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Col. Roy Levy, the commander of Israel’s Northern Border Brigade, speaks inside a tunnel that the army says crosses from Lebanon to Israel, Northern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. A year after uncovering a network of cross-border Hezbollah tunnels, the Israeli military says the Lebanese militant group has beefed up its presence along the volatile frontier. (AP Photo/Patty Nieberg)

Israel: Hezbollah undeterred after recent setbacks

By PATTY NIEBERG - Associated Press

New Yorker gets 40 years in prison for supporting Hezbollah

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A supporter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun holds up his picture with Arabic that read &quot;Because you are our dignity,&quot; as Lebanese republican guards stand guard during a protest near the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Dozens of people are marching to show their support for Aoun and his proposed political reforms that come after more than five weeks of widespread anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In Lebanon, financial collapse and security concerns loom

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, file photo, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during an address to the nation in Beirut, Lebanon. Hariri says he is withdrawing his candidacy for the premiership nearly a month after he resigned and amid ongoing protests and a severe economic and financial crisis. In a statement, Hariri calls on Michel Aoun to quickly hold consultations with heads of parliamentary blocks to name a new Prime Minister. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Outgoing Lebanese PM withdraws candidacy for post

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

A supporter of the Iran-backed militant Hezbollah group waves his group's flag as he stands in front of Lebanese army soldiers after a clash erupted between the anti-government protesters and the group, in Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Security forces fired tear gas amid confrontations in central Beirut that went into Monday morning between Hezbollah supporters and demonstrators protesting against Lebanon's political elite.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon clashes threaten to crack open fault lines

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Lebanese troops and riot police, stand guard behind barbed wire, as a few dozen people demonstrate and chant slogans, during a protest against what they called, &quot;America's intervention in Lebanon's affairs,&quot; near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. Arabic at lower left corner reads, &quot;police state protects Zionists.&quot; (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Police fire tear gas as groups clash in Lebanon capital

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