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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 denies doing banking activities for Hezbollah

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Lebanese soldiers with U.N officials patrol in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun along the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel: Iran, Hezbollah intensifying missile efforts

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Broken windows are seen on the 11-floor building that houses the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. Two Israeli drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital overnight without the militants firing on them, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, saying the first fell on the roof of a building housing Hezbollah's media office while the second landed in a plot behind it. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

UN warns ceasefire violations could spark Lebanon-Israel war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Drone attacks in Middle East are terrorists’ equalizer

By Seth J. Frantzman

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in Kyiv, Ukraine. The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Lebanon. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Israel’s shadow war with Iran bursts into the open

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier walks towards a tank in position along the Israel-Lebanon border, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu to Iran, Hezbollah: Israel knows how to ‘pay back’

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Israeli forces patrol near the area of an attack, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 25. 2019. An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli PM cuts Gaza fuel transfers amid flurry of threats

By ARON HELLER - 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)

Lebanon: Israeli air force hits Palestinian base in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of Beirut and another exploded in the air, amid regional tensions between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

2 Israeli drones crash over Beirut, Hezbollah denies firing

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Aug. 8, 2019, shows Iranian-made smart bombs during an unveiling ceremony, Iran. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Iranian Gen. Mohsen Rezaei on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, as denying claims by the Israeli military that it thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack on Israel, calling that a &quot;lie.&quot; (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensions

By JON GAMBRELL and JOSEF FEDERMAN and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of Beirut and another exploded in the air, amid regional tensions between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The Latest: Lebanese PM condemns Israeli ‘aggression’

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Hezbollah: Israeli drone falls, another explodes over Beirut

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Lebanese businessman sentenced in US over Hezbollah support

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US targets senior Hezbollah operative with sanctions

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FILE - In this May 23, 2018 file photo, Lebanese Hezbollah lawmaker, Nawaf Musawi waves to journalist as he enters the parliament, in Beirut, Lebanon. On Thursday, July 18, 2019, Musawi offered his resignation after a shooting at a police station he was allegedly involved in. The group said Musawi submitted his resignation to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Thursday, days after the incident. It was not clear whether Berri, a Hezbollah ally, would accept Musawi’s resignation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah lawmaker offers resignation after alleged shooting

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Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, right, shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Zarif extended an offer for Iranian military assistance to the U.S.-backed Lebanese army on Sunday, saying Iran is ready to assist in all sectors should the Lebanese government want it. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil allegedly receiving Iranian support

By L. Todd Wood

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel threatens ‘crushing’ response to any Hezbollah strike

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"We announce that we are fully prepared and ready to stand as one with the Lebanese people with the Palestinian cause," said Qais al-Khazali, the Baghdad-born leader of the Iraqi-based Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia. (Associated Press/File)

Qais al-Khazali, Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia leader, takes Iran’s fight to Israel

By Seth J. Frantzman