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Syrian children play soccer by their tents at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. Against the backdrop of a worsening economic crisis and political stalemate, Lebanese officials have launched a crackdown on the country's Syrian refugees. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Syrian refugees fearful as Lebanon steps up deportations

By Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Workers light smoke sticks during a May Day rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 1, 2023. Workers and activists across Asia are marking May Day with protests calling for higher salaries and better working conditions, among other demands. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

May Day: World’s workers rally, France sees pension anger

By Angela Charlton and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

These two cars found just outside Beirut, Lebanon, are believed to be those used by the Israeli troops in raids on Palestinian leaders on April 10, 1973. The Israeli commando force led by a man disguised as brunette. Ehud Barak, who later rose to become Israel's prime minister, infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood shooting dead three top officials with the Palestine Liberation Organization in two separate adjacent buildings. (AP Photo/Zaven Vartan, File)

Lebanon still proxy battleground, 50 years after Israel raid

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

An Israeli police officer runs to remove remains of an intercepted rocket fired from Lebanon in Shlomi, northern Israel Thursday, April 6, 2023. Israeli air defenses intercepted a rocket fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the Israeli military said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the rare rocket fire from Lebanon. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

2 killed in West Bank after Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Morning sun filters into the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, April 6, 2023 during the Holy Thursday Mass. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Why do Jerusalem tensions fuel regionwide unrest?

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Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 7, 2023. The Israeli military has struck targets in the Gaza Strip, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders. The fighting follows two days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. As Israeli aircraft began striking Gaza, Palestinian militants quickly fired off a new barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens across southern Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel strikes targets in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu warns enemies will pay ‘heavy price’

By Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Journalists stand by the damage of a medieval citadel after an early morning Israeli airstrike in the capital city of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Syrian state news reported that Israeli airstrikes have targeted a residential neighborhood in central Damascus. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Israeli strikes on Syria intensify, raise tensions with Iran

By Bassem Mroue and Josef Federman - Associated Press

A double-decker Airbus A380 plane lands at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, March 29, 2018. Lebanon's caretaker transportation minister on Thursday, March 30, 2023 said a contract for a new terminal at the country's main airport is canceled, following criticism that no public bidding was held for the $122 million project. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon abruptly nixes plan for $122M airport ‘Terminal 2’

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa Aya Majzoub, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Leading international rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday decried what it said were double standards by Western countries, which rallied behind a "robust response" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine but remain "lukewarm" on issues of human rights violations in the Middle East. The Arabic Words in the background read "Woman, life, freedom." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Amnesty: West’s ‘double standards’ fuel Mideast repression

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Store displays advertising in Arabic that reads "Italian clothes and shoes for 9.99 $" in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Lebanon started pricing consumer goods in U.S. dollars Wednesday as the value of the Lebanese pound hit new lows. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon adopts ‘dollarization’ as currency, economy crumble

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A drone picture shows the scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, on Aug. 5, 2020. Lebanon’s top prosecutor Wednesday Jan. 25, 2023 ordered all suspects detained in the deadly 2020 port blast released, a lawyer for two detainees and judicial officials said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Top prosecutor orders release of Beirut port blast detainees

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Irish UN peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers investigate the scene where gunfire came on a UN peacekeeper convoy in the Al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Irish U.N. peacekeeper killed after attack in southern Lebanon

By Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

An Iranian flag and a scarf depicting U.S. flag are sold at the Souq Waqif Market in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

U.S.-Iran match reflects a regional rivalry for many Arab fans

By Ali Abdul-Hassan and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein gestures during his trial in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 29, 2006. Lawyer Bushra al-Khalil said Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022 that her client Abdullah Yasser Sabaawi, great-nephew of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, has no links with the Islamic State group but was sent back to Iraq as part of a political deal with Lebanese authorities. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Lawyer: Saddam’s relative has no role in IS killings in Iraq

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week have produced hand-wringing and consternation in Israel, complicating the country’s balancing act between Russia and the West. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Russia’s Iranian drones complicate Israel’s balancing act

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Makati, right, receives the final draft of the maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel from his deputy Elias Bou Saab who leads the Lebanese negotiating team, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Israel's prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached a "historic agreement" with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered negotiations. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Israel announces sea deal with Lebanon, but doubts remain

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Palestinian rescue team stand on a Lebanese shore, as they wait to receive from the Syrian Red Crescent several victims of those who were on a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon that sank in Syrian waters, at Arida border crossing point between Lebanon and Syria, north Lebanon, Sept. 23, 2022. Syria's health minister says at several people have been killed from a boat that sank migrants from Lebanon off Syria's coast. The incident is the deadliest since a surging number of Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians have tried to flee crisis-hit Lebanon by sea to Europe. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syrian official says so far, 77 dead in migrant boat sinking

By Fay Abuelgasim and Bilal Hussein - Associated Press

With the Lebanese Government House in the background, a new generator is hauled up to the roof of an office building, in Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 21, 2022. They literally run the country. Private generators are ubiquitous in parts of the Middle East, spewing hazardous fumes into homes and business across the country, almost 24 hours a day. As the world looks for renewable energy to tackle climate change, Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere rely on diesel-powered private generators just to keep the lights on. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In parts of Mideast, power generators spew toxic fumes 24/7

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: &quot;40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad's grand son),&quot; during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Lebanese Army official Twitter page, shows the boat that sank carrying about 80 Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy, following a confrontation with the Lebanese navy, which found by Pisces VI submarine on some 459 meters (about 1,505 feet), in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The Lebanese navy and a submarine crew on Friday, Aug. 26, announced that they found the remains of at least seven of the approximately 30 drowned migrants in a sunken ship off the coast of Tripoli. (Lebanese Army Website via AP)

Lebanese submarine finds 10 bodies on sunken migrant ship

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