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President Donald Trump speaks at a reception commemorating the 35th anniversary of the attack on Beirut Barracks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump Iran crackdown praised during 1983 Beirut bombing anniversary event

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this photo released on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Monday it launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria targeting militants it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade. (Sepahnews via AP)

Syria FM says Iran coordinated its ballistic missile strikes

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Saturday Sept. 8, 2018 photo, a Lebanese man drinks arak from a traditional glass pitcher during a festival that celebrates Lebanon's national alcoholic drink, in the town of Taanayel, east Lebanon. The anise-tinged arak, is surrounded by ritual -- from its distilling down to the moment when it’s mixed, turning milky white in water, and drunk over long, lingering meals. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Correction: Lebanon-Arak Drink story

By FADI TAWIL - Associated Press

Israeli jets fly over Lebanon in rare daytime raid on Syria

By ALBERT AJI and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this Monday Aug. 20, 2018 photo, a man counts Lebanese pounds at an exchange shop, in Beirut, Lebanon. Nearly four months after Lebanon held its first general elections in nine years, politicians are still squabbling over the formation of a new government amid uncertainty over a long stagnating economy, struggling businesses and concerns over the currency. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese economy hammered by political crisis, debt

By FADI TAWIL - Associated Press

World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa Ferid Belhaj, speaks during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Belhaj said Tuesday that the Lebanese economy is &quot;not doing great&quot; and urged the country's leaders to approve projects put forward by the international lender, saying otherwise they would be cancelled. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

World Bank warns some Lebanon projects might be cancelled

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, second left, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, left, meet with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, right, at his house in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 26, 2018. The Russian delegation is in Lebanon to discuss Russian proposals for organizing the return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon and Syria to their homes in Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Some Syrian refugees oppose Russian repatriation push

By FARES AKRAM and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

This Thursday, July 5, 2018 photo provided by Nabaa Media, a Syrian opposition media outlet, shows smoke rising over buildings that were hit by Syrian government forces bombardment, in Daraa province, southern Syria. Syrian state media and a war monitor say government forces have captured new areas along the border with Jordan and are on the verge of reaching a main crossing between the two countries. (Nabaa Media, via AP)

Syrian troops recapture vital border crossing with Jordan

By OMAR AKOUR and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A Lebanese stage actor Ziad Itani, who was indicted on charges of collaborating with Israel and drug possession, flashes the victory signs after he was released by Lebanese authorities, on his arrival to his house, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Itani was released on Tuesday and cleared of charges, while the officer who built the case against him was ordered detained. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon releases actor accused of collaborating with Israel

Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian Red Crescent shows a convoy of vehicles of the Syrian Red Crescent arriving to Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 5, 2018. Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped for relief Monday as a 46-truck aid convoy began entering the rebel stronghold, the first such shipment in months. (Syrian Red Crescent via AP)

Aid delivered to Syria’s Ghouta amid renewed violence

By Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense extinguishing a store during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Intense Syrian government shelling and airstrikes of rebel-held Damascus suburbs killed at least 100 people since Monday in what was the deadliest day in the area in three years, a monitoring group and paramedics said Tuesday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

More than 100 killed in Syria assault on Damascus suburb

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

ISIS ‘bodies for freedom’ deal shakes Middle East

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 photo, a visitor weaves woolen patches on a loom to cover bullet holes on the building hosting an exhibition dedicated to healing the country's war wounds, in Beirut, Lebanon. Zena El Khalil’s art exhibit has tapped into wounds more than forty years old in war-scarred Lebanon. “Sacred Catastrophe: Healing Lebanon” is being hosted in a landmark building in the center of Beirut, a reminder of the country’s 1975-1990 civil war. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Art exhibit in Lebanon takes on civil war’s old wounds

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence salutes during a ceremony honoring 241 U.S. Service members killed 34 years ago in the 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 at the Marine Barracks in Washington. (AP Photo/Ken Thomas)

Pence honors memory of Marines killed in 1983 Beirut bombing

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

In this Friday, June 30, 2017 photo, people sunbathe at the Printania Palace Hotel, in Broummana, some 15 kilometers (about 10 miles) northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. The tourism industry in Lebanon is on the rebound, thanks in no small part to the misfortunes of its Middle East neighbors, engulfed by wars, chaos and political upheaval. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon sees tourism rebound as turmoil swallows region

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this June 13, 2017, file photo, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dunford said Monday, June 19, 2017, that Washington and Moscow are in delicate discussions to tamp down tensions arising from the U.S. shootdown of a Syrian fighter jet, which the Russians called a violation of a U.S.-Russian understanding on avoiding air incidents. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. military shoots down Iranian-made drone in southern Syria

By Zeina Karam and Robert Burns - Associated Press

A man walks past a poster promoting the movie, Wonder Woman, at a cinema in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Lebanon's ministry of economy says it has asked the country's security agency to ban the movie because its lead actress, Gal Gadot, is an Israeli. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon bans the new “Wonder Woman” movie

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this file image made from video posted online on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 by Qasioun News Agency, Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces, one carrying a Turkish flag, patrol in Dabiq, Syria. Turkey’s military incursion in northern Syria succeeded in gaining it a foothold and driving Islamic State group militants away from its border — but its determination to also push back the Kurds is causing it trouble. (Qasioun News Agency via AP, File)

UNICEF says 2016 was worst year yet for Syria’s children

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

A worker hangs a billboard showing Christian leader Michel Aoun with Arabic that reads &quot;For all Lebanon,&quot; in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Aoun, an 81-year-old veteran Christian politician, is set to be elected by Parliament on Monday as part of a political deal that's expected to be another boost for President Bashar Assad in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Michel Aoun elected as Lebanese president, ending vacuum

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This photo released online on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, by the website of the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Sham, an anti-government militant group, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al-Sham Front preparing for the offensive on government positions in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Fierce fighting broke out around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday as rebels announced a large-scale offensive to break the government's nearly two-month siege of opposition-held areas. Arabic, bottom, reads: "Holy warriors getting ready for the battle to break the siege of Aleppo." (militant photo via AP)

Syrian rebels launch Aleppo offensive to break siege

By Philip Issa - Associated Press