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Illustration on Israel's internal and external threats by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Israel faces intensifying external threats and internal divisions

By Clifford D. May

FILE - Riad Salameh the governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, listens to a journalist's question during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2019. The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada Thursday slapped sanctions on Lebanon's embattled ex-central bank governor and four family members and close associates for corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said. Salameh, 73, ended on July 31, 2023 his 30-year tenure under a cloud of investigation and blame for his country's historic economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

U.S., U.K., and Canada sanction Lebanon’s former central bank governor over corruption allegations

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Illustration on the growth of Hezbollah against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

U.S. emboldens Hezbollah at Israel’s expense

By Tony Badran and Jonathan Schanzer

People walk through the town square Wednesday, July 26, 2023 in Lebanon, Tenn. City officials conducted a do-it-yourself census after concern about being under counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Cost of federal census recounts push growing towns to do it themselves

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Empty bullet cartridges are seen lying on the road during a third day of clashes that erupted between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group and Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

An uneasy calm settles over Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camps after overnight clashes

By Abby Sewell and Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

Riad Salameh, center, Lebanon's outgoing Central Bank governor, greets employees at a farewell party marking the end of his 30 years in office outside the Lebanese Central Bank building, in Beirut, Monday, July 31, 2023. Lebanon's embattled central bank governor Monday ended his 30-year tenure. Meanwhile, his four vice governors, led by incoming interim governor Wassim Mansouri, urged the cash-strapped country's government for fiscal reforms at a news conference in that same building. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s central bank governor ends 30-year tenure under investigation during dire economic crisis

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group stand guard during a third day of clashes that erupted with Islamist factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Clashes continue between factions in Palestinian camp in Lebanon as death toll climbs to 9

By Abby Sewell and Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

Members of the Palestinian Fateh group take position during clashes that erupted with Islamist militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, July 30, 2023. Palestinian officials say at least five people have been killed and several others wounded during clashes in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

At least 5 dead and 7 wounded in clashes inside crowded Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Residents dig a grave at a cemetery on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Wazzani with the walled northern part of Ghajar village in the background, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. The little village of Ghajar has been a point of contention between Israel and Lebanon for years, split in two by the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The dispute has begun to heat up again. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Moves at a small border village hike Israel-Hezbollah tensions at a time of regional jitters

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A U.N. peacekeeper armored vehicle is parked along the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern Lebanese village of Marwaheen, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. An explosion near Lebanon's border with Israel lightly wounded at least three members of the militant Hezbollah group, a Lebanese security official said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Explosion along Lebanon-Israel border wounds 3 members of militant group Hezbollah

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, right, meets with the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Aroldo Lazaro Saenz of Spain, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 10, 2023. The commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed on the tense Lebanon-Israel border relayed Monday an Israeli request to remove a tent set up by the militant Hezbollah group in a disputed area along the frontier, the foreign minister said Monday. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Israel asks Lebanon to remove militant Hezbollah tent from tense border area

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.N. peacekeepers patrol on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Wazzani with border village Ghajar in the background, Thursday, July 6, 2023. Israeli forces shelled a southern Lebanese border village on Thursday after several explosions were heard in a disputed area where the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Israeli forces shell southern Lebanon border village after rocket lands near disputed territory

By Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

In this picture released by the Hezbollah's military media unit, a Hezbollah fighter stands next to an Israeli drone that was shot down in a disputed area known as Chebaa Farms on the Lebanese-Israeli border, southern Lebanon, Monday, June 26, 2023. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said its fighters shot down an Israeli drone Monday that was flying near the border and over southern Lebanon. (Hezbollah Military Media via AP)

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says it shot down an Israeli drone near the southern border

Associated Press

Drivers compete during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race under the lights, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Lebanon, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Nashville, Bristol working to give NASCAR a historic racing option in Music City

By Teresa M. Walker - Associated Press

A Lebanese soldier points his rocket-propelled-grenade toward an Israeli Merkava tank in the disputed Kfar Chouba hills along the border, south Lebanon, Friday, June 9, 2023. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones along the border with Lebanon Friday, leaving some Lebanese demonstrators and troops suffering breathing problems. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Israeli troops fire tear gas to disperse protesters along Lebanon border

By Ahmad Mantash - Associated Press

Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Hannibal Gadhafi who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years began a hunger strike Saturday, June 3, 2023, to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Lawyer: Health of Gadhafi’s son, detained in Lebanon, deteriorating 3 days into hunger strike

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Hannibal Gadhafi who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years began a hunger strike Saturday, June 3, 2023, to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)

Gadhafi’s son goes on hunger strike in Lebanon to protest detention without trial

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

woman looks at a homeless Lebanese man sleeping on the ground in Hamra street, in Beirut, Lebanon, July 17, 2020. The World Bank has approved a $300 million additional financing to the poor in Lebanon in which families that live in poverty will get cash payments to help them through the country's historic economic meltdown, the World Bank said in a statement released Friday, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

World Bank approves $300 million financing to help poor people in Lebanon

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, smiles during a press conference in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Salameh did not appear before French prosecutors for questioning in Paris, Tuesday May 16, 2023 in an ongoing European probe into alleged money-laundering and illicit enrichment. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanese prosecutor summons central bank chief following Interpol warrant over corruption charges

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, smiles during a press conference in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Salameh did not appear before French prosecutors for questioning in Paris, Tuesday May 16, 2023 in an ongoing European probe into alleged money-laundering and illicit enrichment. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon receives Interpol notice for its central bank governor who was no-show at Paris questioning

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press