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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

A view of the Grace 1 super tanker with the name &quot;Adrian Darya 1&quot; over the place where &quot;Grace 1&quot; had already been blackened out is seen in the British territory of Gibraltar, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar in &quot;24 to 48 hours,&quot; despite a last-minute effort by the United States to seize it again. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Destination remains obscure for Iran oil tanker sought by U.S.

By Jon Gambrell and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Hezbollah: drones were likely flown from Israeli gunboats

Associated Press

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

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

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’

Associated Press

In this photograph made available by the state-run WAM news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, receives a medal during his induction to the Order of Zayed from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. Modi is on a trip to both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, reinforcing ties between India and the Gulf Arab nations as he pursues stripping statehood from the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. (Hamad al-Kaabi - Ministry of Presidential Affairs/WAM via AP)

India’s Modi awarded UAE medal amid Kashmir crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, center, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, second from right, enter a hall during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 5, 2019. Pedersen voiced hope that cooperation between Russia and Turkey will help stabilize the situation in Syria's northwestern provice of Idlib. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

UN envoy arrives in Syria amid violent clashes in the north

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

This cover mage released by 4AD shows &quot;Gallipoli,&quot; the latest release by Beirut. (4AD via AP)

Review: Beirut’s new album is a celebration of cultures

By RAGAN CLARK - Associated Press

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, takes a selfie with reporters after he announced his new cabinet, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Lebanese political factions have agreed on the formation of a new government, breaking a nine-month deadlock that only deepened the country' economic woes. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon factions form government, ending nine-month deadlock

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

The chair of the Syrian Arab Republic is empty at the opening session of the Arab foreign ministers meeting ahead of a weekend Arab Economic Summit, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. The Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, or AESD, is being held in Lebanon for the first time amid sharp divisions in the country and among Arab countries. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon calls for readmitting Syria to Arab League

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This frame grab from a video provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows missiles flying into the sky near Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Tuesday, hitting an arms depot and wounding three soldiers, Syrian state media reported, saying that most of the missiles were shot down by air defense units. (SANA via AP)

Russia: Israeli strike on Syria threatened civilian flights

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Lebanese businessman pleads guilty to violating US sanctions

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

British radio presenter killed in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanese protesters chant slogans during a protest against corruption and criticizing long-serving politicians for failing to form a government, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. Lebanon is marking 75 years of independence with a military parade Thursday in Beirut, but many anxious Lebanese feel they have little to celebrate: the country's corruption-plagued economy is dangerously close to collapse and political bickering over shares in a new Cabinet is threatening to scuttle pledges worth $11 billion by international donors. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s economy faces stark choice: Reform or collapse

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this Oct. 31, 2018 photo, a Lebanese customs officer walks past trucks waiting to cross into Syria from the Lebanese border crossing point of al-Masnaa, in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. The long-awaited reopening of a vital border crossing between Syria and Jordan earlier this month was supposed to bring relief to Lebanese farmers and traders looking to resume exports to Gulf countries. But the commerce has so far been complicated by politics, high transit fees and fighting over which trucks pass through which country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s ‘lung’ to Gulf markets choked by politics

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Beirut Rules’ by Fred Burton and Samuel M. Katz

By Joshua Sinai