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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 - 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

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

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

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

U.S.-built pier in Gaza up and running again after setbacks

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Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos and Lara Trump return from a break at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

What to know about Trump’s outreach with Arab Americans led by his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib, right, shakes hands with Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin after their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Ireland’s top diplomat concerned over slow pace of justice in peacekeeper’s killing in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

A Syrian refugee woman carries her child as she prepares to go back home to Syria as part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil and Kareem Chehayeb - 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

FILE - Migrants aboard a Cyprus marine police boat as they are brought to harbour after being rescued from their own vessel off the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast, at Protaras, Cyprus, on Jan. 14, 2020. The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising, the head of a top international agency working with migrants warned Tuesday, April m30, 2024, as pressure builds due to their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Migration agency chief warns that even more Syrians will leave Lebanon as donors cut back on aid

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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

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

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks during a conference announcing a French reconstruction plan for the Beirut Port, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Mikati has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was filed in France by two anti-corruption groups this week. The complaint against Najib Mikati was formally filed Tuesday, April 2, 2024, to France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s office by French anti-corruption non-governmental organization Sherpa and the Collective of Victims of Fraudulent and Criminal Practices. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon’s billionaire prime minister denies allegations of money laundering in France

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Paramedic workers search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

7 Lebanese and an Israeli killed in an exchange of fire along the Lebanon-Israel border

By Mohammad Zaatari and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press