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FILE - Sailors and military service personnel arrive on the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship on the Hudson River during fleet week, May 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, FIle)

U.S. shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

File - Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaking via a video link, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have recently ratcheted up their threats of an all-out war. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel last week that if it launches an offensive in Lebanon, his group has new weapons and capabilities it can use against Israeli forces and cities, unlike during their previous wars. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

What is Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group that could go to all-out war against Israel?

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, particularly as cease-fire negotiations have faltered. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

With another setback for cease-fire talks, worries of full-scale war for Israel and Lebanon escalate

By Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are offering to come to Lebanon to join the militant Hezbollah group in its fight with Israel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel

By Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters watch a speech given by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on a screen during a ceremony to commemorate the death of senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, 55, who was killed last week by an Israeli strike in south Lebanon, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group warns archenemy Israel against wider war

By Kareem Chehayeb and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

An Israeli firefighter works to extinguish a fire burning in an area near the community of Ramot Naftali, by the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The Israeli military said Tuesday that six soldiers were lightly injured in a brush fire in the country's north that was sparked by fighting with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel weighs a two-front war as Hezbollah escalates attacks

By Seth J. Frantzman - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - The fence of an Israeli military position is seen damaged after Hezbollah targeted it by rockets, on an occupied hill of Kfar Chouba village, southeast Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group is introducing new tactics and weapons against Israel as the war in Gaza drags on and Israeli troops enter parts of the southern city of Rafah. In mid-May 2024, Hezbollah has used a drone equipped with missiles to attack an Israeli post as well as an explosive drone to hit its deepest target so far since the clashes began seven months ago. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Students from the Lebanese American University (LAU) burn a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest inside their university campus to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Scores of students held pro-Palestinian protests at some of the largest universities in Beirut Tuesday expressing anger over the rising deaths during the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli strike kills 4 civilians in southern Lebanon, state media says

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne, left, speaks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri during their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Top French diplomat arrives in Lebanon in attempt to broker a halt to Hezbollah-Israel clashes

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review

Associated Press

Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force, as they hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini and Iranian and Palestinian flags in an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. This month's unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries. Experts say Friday's apparent precision strike by Israel deep into Iran demonstrated Israel's military dominance on almost all fronts. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Israel, Iran’s apparent strikes and counterstrikes give new insights into both militaries

Associated Press

Municipal police officers patrol outside a villa where the Lebanese money changer Mohammad Srour, 57, was found tortured and killed in Monte Verdi neighbourhood of Beit Meri, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Lebanon’s interior minister alleged Wednesday that the mysterious abduction and killing of a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese financier in a villa on the edge of a quiet mountain resort town earlier this month was likely the work of Israeli operatives. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon says Israeli agents likely killed Hezbollah-linked currency exchanger near Beirut

By Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, June 25, 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu brushes off calls for restraint, says Israel will decide how to respond to Iran’s attack

By Julia Frankel and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel, Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday. The Israeli military says Iran fired more than 100 bomb-carrying drones toward Israel. Hours later, Iran announced it had also launched much more destructive ballistic missiles. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)

Israel hails ‘success’ in blocking Iran’s unprecedented attack. Biden now seeks diplomatic response

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during an anti-Israeli gathering in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel hails ‘success’ in blocking Iran’s unprecedented attack. Biden now seeks diplomatic response

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press