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Broken windows are seen on the 11-floor building that houses the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. Two Israeli drones crashed in a Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese capital overnight without the militants firing on them, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, saying the first fell on the roof of a building housing Hezbollah's media office while the second landed in a plot behind it. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

UN warns ceasefire violations could spark Lebanon-Israel war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. University and federal officials confirmed that incoming Harvard University student Ismail Ajjawi, 17, of Lebanon, was refused entry into the U.S. after landing at Logan International Airport in Boston on Friday, Aug. 23. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Questions after US turns away Palestinian Harvard freshman

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

An Israeli drone circles over Gaza City on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Drone attacks in Middle East are terrorists’ equalizer

By Seth J. Frantzman

In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech in Kyiv, Ukraine. The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Lebanon. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Israel’s shadow war with Iran bursts into the open

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border with Syria. Lebanese President Michel Aoun told the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, that the attacks violate a U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon: Israeli air force hits Palestinian base in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli forces patrol near the area of an attack, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 25. 2019. An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli PM cuts Gaza fuel transfers amid flurry of threats

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Lebanese security stand near the site where an Israeli drone was said to have crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. A Hezbollah official said Sunday that an Israeli drone went down over the Lebanese capital of Beirut and another exploded in the air, amid regional tensions between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The Latest: Lebanese PM condemns Israeli ‘aggression’

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Lebanese president says Beirut will overcome economic crisis

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Fitch Ratings downgrades Lebanon, S&P maintains its ratings

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City manager in Oregon placed on leave

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People walk past a shop selling newspapers in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. Lebanon's only English-language daily The Daily Star is protesting the country's deteriorating economic and political conditions by publishing a blank edition. The back page had a photo of the cedar tree, a national symbol, with a caption reading: &quot;Wake up before it's too late!&quot; (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese daily publishes blank edition to protest crisis

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A Lebanese activist holds an Arabic placard that read: &quot;If you are scared for your faith because of a song, reconsider your faith, not the song,&quot; during a protest expressing solidarity with Mashrou' Leila or &quot;Leila's Project&quot; band, a popular Mideast rock band known for its rousing music and lyrics challenging norms in the conservative Arab world, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 29, 2019. The group is at the center of a heated debate about freedom of expression after church leaders demanded that their concert, scheduled to take place in the coastal city of Byblos on Aug. 9, be canceled, saying the group's songs are an insult to Christianity. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon festival drops popular band after Christian pressure

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Hamed Sinno, 24, lead singer and song writer of the Lebanese group Mashrou' Leila performs with the band in the ancient Roman amphitheater in the Jordanian capital Amman. A Lebanese band that supports gay rights has found itself at the center of a heated debate in Lebanon about freedom of expression. Church leaders and conservative politicians demand that a concert by Mashrou' Leila in the coastal city of Byblos be canceled, setting off a storm of indignation on social media. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid, File)

Lebanese rock band takes center stage in freedoms debate

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, right, shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Zarif extended an offer for Iranian military assistance to the U.S.-backed Lebanese army on Sunday, saying Iran is ready to assist in all sectors should the Lebanese government want it. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil allegedly receiving Iranian support

By L. Todd Wood

In this Feb. 6, 2019 photo, Amin Sherri, a Lebanese lawmaker of the Hezbollah bloc, attends a rally to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution in southern Beirut, Lebanon. The U.S. Treasury Department is imposing sanctions Lebanon Parliament members Amin Sherri and Muhammad Hasan Ra'd, and Hezbollah official Wafiq Safa, who are suspected of using their positions to further the aims of the Iran-backed military group and &quot;bolster Iran's malign activities. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Treasury targets 2 Lebanese lawmakers, Hezbollah official

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2016 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, south Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File) **FILE**

Donald Trump hits Hezbollah members of Lebanese parliament with sanctions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Lebanon forces Syrian refugees to tear down walls

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In this Thursday, June 20, 2019, photo, Mohammed Awwad, 27, a Lebanese Muslim who was prevented from renting an apartment in the Christian village of Hadat, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon. The town's Muslim ban, imposed years ago, has recently sparked a national outcry. The case reflects Lebanon's rapidly changing demographic make-up against the backdrop of deep-rooted sectarian divisions that once erupted into a 15-year civil war. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese town bans Muslims from buying, renting property

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Lebanon slams Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan

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This Sunday, June 16, 2019 photo, shows a Syrian refugee riding a motorcycle among tents at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon. Authorities in Lebanon are waging their most aggressive campaign yet against Syrian refugees, making heated calls for them to go back to their country and taking action to ensure they can’t put down roots. They are shutting down shops where Syrians work without permits and ordering the demolition of anything in their squalid camps that could be a permanent home. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

In Lebanon, Syrian refugees face new pressure to go home

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press