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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 file photo, people pass by an out of service ATM machines at a closed bank in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Lebanon’s bank staff union announced Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 that it’s ending a week-long strike after increased security and new regulations that make limits on withdrawal and dollar transfers official. The union said that banks will reopen Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Protesters force postponement of Lebanese parliament session

By HASSAN AMMAR and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

An anti-government protester carries her national flag past burning tires blocking the main highway during protests against the corruption in Khaldeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. A local official for a government political party was shot dead by soldiers trying to open a road closed by protesters in southern Beirut late Tuesday, the army reported, marking the first death in 27 days of nationwide protests. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon protests sliding into violence amid impasse

By HUSSEIN MALLA and HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 photo Singer Tania Saleh takes pictures by her mobile phone at the martyrs square where the ongoing anti-government take place everyday, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Saleh grew up amid a civil war that has robbed her of her childhood. Of her friends and neighbors. And of the Lebanon she so loved. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hopes of young Lebanese to escape sectarianism put to test

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Riot police stand guard on a main highway blocked by anti-government protesters during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Protesters closed major roads in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon Monday, accusing political leaders of dragging their feet on the formation of a new government amid differences over who should be included. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese army opens roads closed by protesters amid scuffles

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

Supporters of Lebanese President Michel Aoun hold his pictures and Lebanese flags during a protest near the presidential palace in the Beirut suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. Thousands of people are marching to show their support for Aoun and his proposed political reforms that come after more than two weeks of widespread anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Competing protests in Lebanon bring thousands to the streets

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters chant slogans against the Lebanese government, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. President Michel Aoun and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, have been among the main targets of mass protests that aim to sweep from power Lebanon's entire sectarian and political elite. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The Latest: Tens of thousands protest in Lebanese capital

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Lebanon court sentences man to death in UK woman’s death

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Anti-government protesters lie on a road, as they scream and hold each others while riot police try to remove them and open the road, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. Army units and riot police took down barriers and tents set up in the middle of highways and major intersections Thursday. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese go back to blocking roads, demand sweeping change

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

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

Anti-government protesters shout slogans in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Tens of thousands of Lebanese protesters of all ages gathered Sunday in major cities and towns nationwide, with each hour bringing hundreds more people to the streets for the largest anti-government protests yet in four days of demonstrations. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Protesters remain despite Lebanese PM’s reform package

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Anti-government protesters wave a large Lebanese flag during a demonstration in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Protests erupted in Lebanon after the government proposed new taxes criticized for hitting low income groups the hardest. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese protesters flood streets

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A motorcycle police officer passes by broken glass doors of a shop in the aftermath of a protest against the Lebanese government in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. The blaze of protests was unleashed a day earlier when the government announced a slate of new proposed taxes, including a $6 monthly fee for using Whatsapp voice calls. Arabic on the wall reads &quot;Revolution, left, Leave.&quot; (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s Nasrallah says he’s against government resignation

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A woman walks by burning tires that were set fire to block a road during a protest against government's plans to impose new taxes in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The protests erupted over the government's plan to impose new taxes during a severe economic crisis, with people taking their anger out on politicians they accuse of corruption and decades of mismanagement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Faced with protests, Lebanon PM blames own gov’t for crisis

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A Lebanese fireman extinguishes a fire near Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. Strong fires spread in different parts of Lebanon forcing some residents to flee their homes in middle of the night as the flames reached residential areas in villages south of Beirut. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Wildfires spread through parts of Lebanon, Syria

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

In this Sept. 21, 2019, file photo, released by the U.S. Army, a U.S. soldier oversees members of the Syrian Democratic Forces as they demolish a Kurdish fighters' fortification as part of the so-called &quot;safe zone&quot; near the Turkish border. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Goedl via AP)

U.S. troops start pullout from along Turkey’s border in Syria

By Bassem Mroue and Suzan Fraser - 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

FILE - This Jan. 22, 2019, file photo, a man heads to the Lebanese central bank in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's central bank has issued guarantees to secure U.S. dollars for local banks at the fixed official rate that would cover imports of fuel, wheat and medicine. The central bank's move on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019 aims to ease the demand for dollars at a time when many Lebanese are rushing to exchange shops to convert their local currency into dollars. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s central bank secures dollars to cover some imports

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Mohammed Saleh, center, who was detained in Greece last week, is greeted by his son upon his arrival at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Saleh, a Lebanese journalist who was mistakenly detained in Greece on suspicion of involvement in a 1985 TWA hijacking, arrived home in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese man back home after mistaken for hijacker in Greece

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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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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