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Jobless graduates gather in front of the Ministry of Oil to demand jobs in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 20, 2020. In the Mideast, wave after wave of war, disease and economic collapse leaves this generation feeling hopeless. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Virus adds to deep despair felt by war-weary young Arabs

By ZEINA KARAM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Iran slams interception by US jet over Syria as ‘illegal’

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 11, 2020, file photo, an anti-government protester chants slogans as others burn wood and barriers to block a road during a protest against the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon. In recent weeks, Lebanon has been looking for stronger economic relations with eastern countries including China, Iraq and Russia as western countries and oil-rich gulf states have abstained from helping Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government that is backed by Hezbollah and its allies. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon looks to China as US, Arabs refuse to help in crisis

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters scuffle with Lebanese army soldiers while protesting the visit by Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, outside the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese man who financed Hezbollah in US returns home

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A woman passes in front of burned tires and garbage containers set on fire by anti-government protesters to block roads, during a protest against the economic crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Protesters closed several major roads in the Lebanese capital amid rising anger as the currency hit a new record low on the black market, electricity cuts increased and the government raised the price of bread for the first time in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Protests as currency slides, price of bread rises in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released on Thursday, June 11, 2020 by the Lebanese Government, President Michel Aoun, left, meets with U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon. A Lebanese court issued a ruling Saturday barring local and foreign media in the country from interviewing the U.S. ambassador to Beirut for a year, calling a recent interview in which she criticized the powerful Hezbollah group seditious and a threat to social peace. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Government via AP)

Lebanon’s FM to summon US envoy over comments on Hezbollah

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Fadlo Khuri, president of American University of Beirut (AUB), gestures during an interview with The Associated Press Monday, June. 22, 2020, as one of the oldest and most prestigious education institutions in the Middle East region, the AUB is facing its greatest crisis since its founding 154 years ago, in Beirut, Lebanon. The school is planning massive staff cuts and other drastic measures as it grapples to deal with Lebanon's unprecedented economic and financial crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s crisis, pandemic hit American University in Beirut

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters flash the victory sign as they block a road during a protest against the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 11, 2020. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)

Lebanese take to the streets as currency hits a new low

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, Riad Salameh the governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, listens to a journalist's question during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon. Salameh was touted as the guardian of Lebanon’s monetary stability as he steered the tiny country's finances through post-war recovery and various bouts of unrest for nearly three decades. Now, Lebanon’s long-serving central bank governor is being called a “thief” by some protesters, who accuse him of being part of the ruling elite whose corruption and mismanagement has driven the country to the edge of bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon crisis brings mixed legacy for central bank governor

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters scuffle with Lebanese army soldiers in the town of Zouk Mosbeh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 27, 2020. Scattered anti-government protests broke out in several parts of Lebanon on Monday amid a crash in the local currency and a surge in food prices, leading to road closures that prevented medical teams from setting out from Beirut to conduct coronavirus tests across the country. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Riots in crisis-hit Lebanon reflect growing poverty, despair

By BASSAM HATOUM and BILAL HUSSEIN - Associated Press

VIRUS DIARY: An unfamiliar war for those who live with war

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

A member of the Iranian army walks past rows of beds at a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients set up by the army at the international exhibition center in northern Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s army sets up hospital in capital as virus toll climbs

By AMIR VAHDAT and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

In this Saturday, March 21, 2020 photo, a food delivery scooter passes Barbar Restaurant that now offers food for delivery only, after most of the shops and restaurants closed as part of the preventive measures against the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon. Through 15 years of civil war and various bouts of violence since, Lebanon's Barbar eatery never closed its doors, forging ahead through difficult times while continuously serving up sandwiches to customers -- even if it meant doing so from behind sandbags during the conflict. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Coronavirus delivers tough blow to Lebanon’s dying economy

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters wear hazmat-like suits and gas masks during a rally in Baghdad, Iraq. As 2019 gave way to 2020 in a cloud of tear gas, and in some cases a hail of bullets, from Hong Kong to Baghdad, from Beirut to Barcelona and Santiago, it seemed civil disobedience and government crackdowns on protests would dominate the international landscape. Then came the coronavirus. But some protesters are trying to keep their movements alive, adjusting to the outbreak fears. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

The new mask: Wave of global revolt replaced by virus fear

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Voters with face masks fill out their ballots in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Iranians began voting for a new parliament Friday, with turnout seen as a key measure of support for Iran's leadership as sanctions weigh on the economy and isolate the country diplomatically. Also looming over the election is the threat of the new coronavirus, which has been confirmed in five people in Iran this week, including two elderly citizens who died in the city of Qom. Concerns over the spread of the virus, which originated in central China, prompted authorities in Iran to close all schools and Shiite seminaries in Qom. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran reports 2 more deaths, 13 new cases of new coronavirus

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators throw stones toward riot police during a protest against a parliament session for a vote of confidence for the new government in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Cabinet wins vote of confidence from Parliament

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Jan. 27, 2020 photo, anti-government protesters, who were injured during clashing with riot police, pose for a group picture after a check up with an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. The five pledged that they’ll be back in the streets soon. Such resolve signals that demands for sweeping government reforms won’t be squashed easily, even as security forces resort to more violent means of crowd control, such as rubber bullets. (AP Photo/A.J. Naddaff)

Bloodied but determined, Lebanese protesters take stock

By A.J. NADDAF - Associated Press

Lebanese army soldiers try to remove burning tires which were set on fire by the anti-government protesters to block the southern entrance of a highway during a protest against the newly formed cabinet, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Clashes in crisis-hit Lebanon as lawmakers pass budget

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Riot police sprayed anti-government protesters with water cannons as they try to cross to the central government building during ongoing protests in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. Hundreds of Lebanese gathered outside the central government building to reject the newly formed Cabinet, while some protesters breached tight security erected around it, removing a metal gate and barbed wire prompting a stream of water cannons from security forces. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese protesters rally downtown despite enhanced security

By MALAK HARB and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A man rides his bicycle next to a concrete wall installed by authorities to blocks a road leading to the parliament building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Arabic on the wall reads &quot;wall of shame, left, Beirut rebels, center, Cowards.&quot; As cement barricades come up across the capital, blocking the path to major government buildings, Lebanese protesters vowed to continue taking to the street on the 100-day anniversary of the anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon at a crossroads after 100 days of protests

By A.J. NADDAFF - Associated Press