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ISIS ‘bodies for freedom’ deal shakes Middle East

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

House approves legislation to thwart Hezbollah’s cash flow

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

The Latest: House passes sanctions bills targeting Hezbollah

Associated Press

Illustration on the fall of Kirkuk by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Fall of Kirkuk a gift to Iran

By Ernie Audino

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to bash Iran on non-nuke issues in decertifying deal

By MATTTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Lebanese Shiite supporters of Hezbollah cry as listen to the story of Imam Hussein, during activities marking the holy day of Ashoura, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Ashoura is the annual Shiite Muslim commemoration marking the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.S. officials ramp up rhetoric against Iran-backed Hezbollah

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israel’s defense minister says Hezbollah runs Lebanese army

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows damages after a suicide car bomber struck a police station in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. The Al-Ikhbariyeh TV station said one bomber detonated his vehicle in front of the police station and another one managed to enter the station in the capital's al-Midan neighborhood. (SANA via AP)

Suicide attack on police station in Syrian capital kills 17

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 21, 2006 file photo, Israeli soldiers cover their ears as an artillery unit fires shells towards southern Lebanon from a position near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. With President Bashar Assad seemingly poised to survive the Syrian civil war, Israeli leaders are growing nervous about the intentions of his Iranian patrons and their emerging corridor of influence across the region. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

As Syrian war winds down, Israel sets sights on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israel says it downed Hezbollah drone headed toward Golan

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In a show of support, Iraqi Hezbollah scouts parade with a portrait of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Associated Press/File)

Iran militia to attack Americans after ISIS defeat in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters from a group called the Hussein Brigade use a helmet to draw sniper fire, during clashes with the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army, in the town of Hejeira, near Damascus, Syria. Thousands of Iranian-backed fighters in Syria’s desert central region are advancing east on three fronts, bringing Tehran closer to its goal of securing a corridor from its border through Iraq all the way to the Mediterranean that would give it unhindered land access to its allies in Syria and Lebanon for the first time. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo, File)

Iran extends reach with fight for land link to Mediterranean

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Lebanese army soldiers rappel down from a helicopter onto the deck of the Brazilian warship UNIAO, part of the UNIFIL Maritime force, during a joint training to apprehend the smuggling of illegal material, off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The head of the U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon says his force has no evidence that weapons are being illegally transferred in the country's south, rebuffing criticism the mission is failing to stem their spread. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN force in Lebanon pushes back after US, Israeli criticism

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Brig. Gen. Ali Qanso, chief military spokesman, speaks during a press conference at the Lebanese Defense Ministry in Yarzeh near Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. Lebanon's U.S.-backed army launched operations against Islamic State group positions inside the country on Saturday, to start the most serious engagement with the militants since they found a foothold here in 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon starts offensive to clear border of IS militants

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

FILE -- In this June 19, 2016 file photo, a Lebanese army soldier takes his position overlooking an area controlled by the Islamic State group at the edge of the town of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon. Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of IS militants from a remote corner of northeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, seeking to end a years-long threat posed to neighboring towns and villages by the extremists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 photo released by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows al-Qaida-linked militants seated in a bus with their families, after being evacuated from the town of Arsal, near the Syrian border, in northeast Lebanon. A large convoy from Lebanon carrying thousands of refugees and al-Qaida-linked militants began arriving at a transfer point in the western Syrian Hama province to complete their journey to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media via AP)

Truce goes into effect in another Syria ‘safe zone’

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Saad Hariri confident on aid after meeting Trump

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hezbollah supporters mourned their commander Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an explosion last year in Damascus. The Lebanese Shiite group has played a significant role in the conflict next door, but there are signs that its alliance with the Syrian government is fraying. (Associated Press/File)

Russia pressures Bashar Assad to cut Syria’s Hezbollah alliance

By Assad Hanna and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on the real beligerants in a coming Middle East war by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Hezbollah will start a conflict backed by Iran

By Clifford D. May

In this Wednesday, March 29, 2017 photo, Israeli soldiers train with paintball guns during a drill at an Army base near Elyakim, Israel. Between myriad concrete buildings with Arabic graffiti that are designed to simulate a typical Lebanese village, dozens of Israeli officers are gearing up for their next battle with Hezbollah guerrillas. The drill at a base in northern Israel takes on added significance in the wake of rising tensions between the old adversaries. Arabic reads, &quot;Hezbollah.&quot; (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Britain anti-semitism terror attacks

By Renee Garfinkel