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Lebanon’s parliament approves Arms Trade Treaty

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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2003 file photo, Lebanese citizen Assad Ahmad Barakat, who was then facing tax evasion charges, is escorted by police to a courthouse in Asuncion, Paraguay. On Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, federal police in Brazil arrested Barakat, a fugitive accused of belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and of being a key financier of terrorism. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Brazil arrests man linked to Hezbollah on crimes in Paraguay

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during activities to mark the ninth of Ashura, a 10-day ritual commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Hassan Nasrallah says his group may reduce the number of its fighters in Syria because of an easing of the conflict, particularly after a recent Russian-Turkey agreement that prevented an offensive on the last rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

With a calmer Syria, Hezbollah may reduce its fighters there

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Syria: Israel launched missile attack on Damascus airport

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, photo, a bulldozer works near a wall at the Israel Lebanon border near Rosh Haniqra, northern Israel, Israel is building a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hezbollah attacks, but the project has raised tensions with Lebanon, which fears the fence will encroach on its territory. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli wall rising near border with Lebanon stokes tensions

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky told the BBC on May 10, 2017, that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization "in human history." (Image: BBC "Newsnight" screenshot)

Noam Chomsky, pro-Hezbollah, anti-GOP, to teach young minds at University of Arizona

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivers a broadcast speech through a giant screen, during a rally marking the12th anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says U.S. sanctions against Iran and his group will not have major effects on them. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah downplays US sanctions on Iran

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference after the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Vladimir Putin, Russia can’t be trusted on Israel security pledge, analysts warn Donald Trump

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Jordanian residents of Jabir village watch aid deliveries to Syrians fleeing government offensive in the south as smoke from unknown fire rises, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. The UN says Syria government's Russian-backed offensive to recover southern territories from rebels has displaced 270,000 people, 60,000 of them headed near the sealed Jordanian borders.(AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Israel lays down red lines for postwar relations with Syria

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2017, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the troops at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. Russia's deployment near the Syria-Lebanon border this week and its withdrawal a day later after protests from the militant Hezbollah group reveals some of the uneasy relations between allies of President Bashar Assad who joined the country's civil war to back him. The move comes amid calls by Russia for foreign countries to withdraw troops from Syria while Tehran says it presence will remain as long as there are threats from terrorists. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Rare tensions between Assad’s backers as Syria’s war unwinds

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump talks with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, as they walk from their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Some worry Trump is overlooking other issues with NKorea

By ZEKE MILLER and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump talks with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, as they walk from their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump urged to raise human rights, regional issues with Kim

By ZEKE MILLER and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 20, 2017 photo, Iran's Central Bank Governor, Valiollah Seif, sits in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran. The United States escalated its financial pressure on Iran Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by slapping terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing business with him, underscoring President Donald Trump's hard line after his withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear accord upset European allies. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US intensifies pressure on Iran, sanctioning central banker

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on the results of Lebanon's recent elections by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Elections in Lebanon pump up Hezbollah, granting it authority to advance its lethal regional agenda

By Tony Badran and Jonathan Schanzer

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2017 file photo, a Ghadr-H missile, center, a solid-fuel surface-to-surface Sejjil missile and a portrait of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran. Facing a second suspected Israeli strike killing Iranian forces in Syria, the Islamic Republic has few ways to retaliate as its officials wrestle both domestic unrest at home and the prospects of its nuclear deal collapsing abroad. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

AP Analysis: Iran has few options to avenge Syria strikes

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Israel says Iran drone downed in Feb was on attack mission

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Illustration on Hezbollah in Lebanon by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The problem is Hezbollah

By Ziva Dahl

In this photo released by Lennart Preiss/MSC 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, holds a part of a downed drone during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, MSC, in Munich , Germany, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. (Lennart Preiss/MSC 2018/dpa via AP)

Israel, Iran head toward military clash over Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on the aggressive strategic future of Syria by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The new ‘great game’ in Syria

By Jed Babbin

3 men accused of trying to export drone parts to Hezbollah

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press