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FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2019 file photo, anti-government protesters wave Lebanese flags and chant, &quot;the people want to bring down the regime&quot; outside the office of legislator Mohammed Raad, the powerful head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon’s protests have shown unusual overt anger at the country’s powerhouse, Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanese protests test Hezbollah’s role as Shiites’ champion

By BASSEM MROUE and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters march during a protest against the central bank and the Lebanese government, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. Lebanese security forces were still struggling to open some roads Thursday as protesters continued their civil disobedience campaign in support of nationwide anti-government demonstrations. The Arabic banner, front, reads:&quot;Lebanon rises up.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s banks reopen after 2-week closure due to protests

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Brothers with alleged Hezbollah ties plead not guilty

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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during an address to the nation in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Lebanon's embattled prime minister says he is presenting his resignation to the president after he hit a "dead end" amid nationwide anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Saad Hariri, Lebanese prime minister, quits amid anti-government protests

By Andrea Rosa and Bilal Hussein - Associated Press

Feds: Brothers with alleged Hezbollah ties are ‘dangerous’

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

FILE - This combination of six portraits shows Hezbollah's senior leadership who the U.S. put under heavy sanctions in May 2018, from top left to right: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheik Naim Kassem the deputy chief of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah's executive council, bottom left to right, Hussein Khalil the political aide of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, head of Hezbollah political bureau, Mohammed Yazbek head of Hezbollah's religious council. The Trump administration has been imposing sanctions on Hezbollah and institutions linked to it at an unprecedented rate in recent months, targeting lawmakers in Lebanon’s parliament for the first time, as well as a local bank that Washington claims has ties to the group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

US sanctions squeezing Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Illustration on spying by Hezbollah by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Suspected terrorist spy is arrested for surveilling New York targets

By Paul Davis

Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Marshall Billingslea, left, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Billingslea met Monday with the prime minister, parliament speaker and the central bank governor. The central bank governor said Billingslea is here to explain the motives behind recent U.S. sanctions targeting Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US official meets in Lebanon over anti-Hezbollah sanctions

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Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab points to parts of an Israeli drone that crashed in southern Beirut last month during a press conference to announce the results of an investigation into the incident, at the Lebanese Defense Ministry, in Yarzeh near Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. The investigation has concluded that two Israeli drones that crashed in the Lebanese capital last month were on an attack mission, one of them armed with 4.5 kilograms of explosives. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon concludes Israeli drones were on attack mission

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FILE - This Jan. 16, 2014, file photo, shows an exterior view of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, in Leidschendam, Netherlands. The Tribunal, a U.N.-backed court based in the Netherlands, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, filed new charges including terrorism and intentional homicide against a Hezbollah fighter who also is accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Tribunal announced that a judge has confirmed a new five-count indictment accusing Salim Jamil Ayyash of three bombings targeting Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005. (Toussaint Kluiter/Pool, File)

Dutch-based court files new charges against Hariri suspect

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border with Syria. Lebanese President Michel Aoun told the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, that the attacks violate a U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Syria says Israel was behind airstrike in country’s east

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the Israeli village of Metulla, background, in the village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. The Lebanon-Israel border was mostly calm with U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the border Monday, a day after the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, triggering Israeli artillery fire that lasted less than two hours and caused some fires. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah says it shot down Israeli drone over south Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Hezbollah Missile Barrage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iran gives Hezbollah precision-guided terrorism

By Jed Babbin

Diplomats: US blocks UN statement on Israel-Hezbollah fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People enter a branch of Jammal Trust Bank in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. The Lebanese bank targeted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for &quot;knowingly facilitating banking activities&quot; for the militant Hezbollah group has denied the charges, saying it abides by international laws. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese bank hit by US sanctions says deposits are insured

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Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the Israeli village of Metulla, background, in the village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. The Lebanon-Israel border was mostly calm with U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the border Monday, a day after the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, triggering Israeli artillery fire that lasted less than two hours and caused some fires. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel claims to uncover Hezbollah missile plant in Lebanon

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Flames and smoke rise from where Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. Hezbollah militants fire a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, prompting a reprisal of heavy Israeli artillery fire, in one of the most intense rounds of fighting between the bitter enemies since a 2006 war. The sudden burst of violence, which ended after about two hours without any casualties reported on either side, nonetheless raised the prospect of an even wider round of fighting. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli army staged casualties in Hezbollah attack: Reports

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers secure the village of Avivim on the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. Hezbollah militants on Sunday fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, prompting a reprisal of heavy Israeli artillery fire in a rare burst of fighting between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Reports: Israeli army faked casualties in Hezbollah attack

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah group on Israeli troops. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Israel says firing ends along Lebanese border

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Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah group on Israeli troops. (AP Photo)

Israeli army says multiple targets hit by fire from Lebanon

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press