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** FILE ** A masked Lebanese Sunni gunman holds up his weapon in Akkar, north Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

House bill aims to halt Hezbollah funding

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Lebanese citizens ride their scooter between burning tires that were set on fire by Sunni protesters, at one of the major roadways between Beirut and the capital's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, to show their support with Sunni town of Arsal, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Gunmen from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and local Shiite Muslim residents tightened their blockade of a Sunni town of Arsal near the Syrian border Tuesday, sparking concerns that thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in the area could be cut off from humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian troops capture village near Lebanon border

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Syrian government forces ride a motorcycle around the main square after being deployed in Yabroud town, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters seized a key rebel supply town on the Lebanese border on Sunday, driving them from the area and scoring a major blow against them in the three-year-old-conflict. The fall of Yabroud immediately emboldened government forces to attack nearby rebel-held towns, pressing forward in what has been nearly a yearlong advance against rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. The Syrian revolutionary flag is seen painted at right. (AP Photo)

Syrian army ousts rebels from border stronghold

By DIAA HADID and BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Ibrahim, 18, a Syrian rebel who lost one of his eyes during a battle against government forces and Hezbollah fighters in Rima village near Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region, lies on his bed as his aunt helps him to put hat on his head, at a makeshift hospital in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arsal, eastern Lebanon. Trucks of armed fighters rumble from this Lebanese Sunni town through the mountains to the front in Syria, where rebels are in a furious fight to keep a vital stronghold. At the same time, Lebanese Shiite fighters from a town not far away are also streaming in to join the battle _ but on the opposing side, backing Syrian government forces. The battle has effectively erased the border between the two countries and underlines how dangerously Lebanon is being sucked into its neighbor’s civil war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Battle for Syrian rebel town erases Lebanon border

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

This picture taken on Saturday, March 1, 2014, provided by the anti-government activist group Coordination Committee In Kfar Takharim, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting destroyed cars and buildings which were attacked by a Syrian government forces airstrike in the town of Kfar Takharim in the northwest province of Idlib, Syria. Government airstrikes hit residential buildings in the town of Kfar Tarakhim in the northwest province of Idlib on Saturday afternoon, according to the Idlib News group and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (AP Photo/Coordination Committee In Kfar Takharim)

Syrian army advancing on rebel town near Lebanon

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers take a break at their position near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hezbollah vows revenge for Israeli attack on its positions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade adjust their weapons during training near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel takes risk with airstrike on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk line up to receive food supplies in Damascus. A United Nations official is calling on warring sides in Syria to allow aid workers to resume distribution of food and medicine in the capital. (United Nations Relief and Works Agency via associated press)

Proxy war between Iran, Saudi Arabia playing out in Syria

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this May 15, 2012, file photo, Lebanese army soldiers patrol after a clashes in the old market of the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon. From radical preachers to irreverent taxi drivers, anger is spreading through Lebanon’s Sunni community toward the country’s military, adding a dangerous twist to Lebanon’s instability, already shaken by relentless bombings. Many Sunnis accuse the military of siding with their rivals, the powerful Shiite group Hezbollah, as sectarian tensions grow in Lebanon, stoked by the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Sunni anger in Lebanon against army grows

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

A Hezbollah civil defense worker extinguishes a burned car at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran's cultural center, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. A blast in a Shiite district in southern Beirut killed at least two people on Wednesday, security officials said — the latest apparent attack linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US senators condemn blasts in Beirut

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Lebanese men carry an wounded man at the site of an explosion, near the Kuwaiti Embassy and Iran's cultural center, in the suburb of Beir Hassan, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. A blast in a Shiite district in southern Beirut killed at least two people on Wednesday, security officials said — the latest apparent attack linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beirut suicide blasts cause panic, bitterness

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

A wounded Lebanese man is carried from the site of an explosion in a suburb of Beirut on Wednesday. A blast in a Shiite district in southern Beirut killed several people Wednesday, security officials said. Twin suicide bombings killed at least six people. (Associated press)

Al Qaeda affiliate targets Hezbollah in Beirut

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

In this image taken from Egyptian state TV, toppled President Mohammed Morsi stands inside a glass-encased metal cage in a courtroom in Cairo, Tuesday, Jan. 28. 2014. Morsi was separated from other defendants for the start of a new trial Tuesday over charges from prison breaks during the country's 2011 revolution. (AP Photo/Egyptian State TV)

A more-controlled Morsi appears in Egyptian court

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

A portrait of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri sits on his grave which is covered by flowers in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. Nearly nine years after the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri shook the Middle East and awakened the seeds of Sunni-Shiite hatreds, an international tribunal begins the long awaited trial of four Hezbollah suspects Thursday. The men have not been arrested, and the Hague-based court will try them in absentia in the first such trial since World War II. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Trial of suspected Hariri assassins set to begin

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

** FILE ** Israeli soldiers look at an Iron Dome missile as it launched near the city of Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hezbollah can now pinpoint missile targets anywhere in Israel, says Iranian general

Associated Press

Lebanese gather at the site of a car bomb explosion in a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group at the southern suburb of Beirut Thursday. (Associated Press)

Bombings, killing in Lebanon become common as Syrian fighting expands

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Mohammed Morsi faces terror charges and death penalty

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Yellow police tape seals off the scene where Hassan al-Laqis, a senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, was gunned down outside his home, some two miles (three kilometers) southwest of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah: Israel ‘directly to blame’ for killing our commander

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times