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ISIS ‘bodies for freedom’ deal shakes Middle East

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

Johns Hopkins takes mission to Lebanon, around the world

By ANDREA K. MCDANIELS - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 photo, a visitor weaves woolen patches on a loom to cover bullet holes on the building hosting an exhibition dedicated to healing the country's war wounds, in Beirut, Lebanon. Zena El Khalil’s art exhibit has tapped into wounds more than forty years old in war-scarred Lebanon. “Sacred Catastrophe: Healing Lebanon” is being hosted in a landmark building in the center of Beirut, a reminder of the country’s 1975-1990 civil war. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Art exhibit in Lebanon takes on civil war’s old wounds

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this recent photo, a postal worker delivers mail, along South Harrison Street in Palmyra, Pa. A six-year-old child, 27 Pomeranians and a parrot were removed from the home after neighbors reported a powerful odor. (Michael K. Dakota/Lebanon Daily News via AP)

Child protection dilemma: Take the child, leave the child

By MERRIELL MOYER and Lebanon Daily News - Associated Press

Illustration on the fall of Kirkuk by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Fall of Kirkuk a gift to Iran

By Ernie Audino

Israeli military strikes anti-aircraft battery in Syria

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Lebanon receives 2 military aircraft from the US

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FILE - In this March 4, 2011 file photo, Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a Lebanese anti-Syrian regime leader, addresses his supporters during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad, at Martyrs Square in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon. On Thursday, Sept 28, 2017, a military judge is scheduled to issue a verdict in the case against Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir and 33 others on charges of fighting the Lebanese army in the southern city of Sidon in 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanese cleric sentenced to death for clashes with army

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 21, 2006 file photo, Israeli soldiers cover their ears as an artillery unit fires shells towards southern Lebanon from a position near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. With President Bashar Assad seemingly poised to survive the Syrian civil war, Israeli leaders are growing nervous about the intentions of his Iranian patrons and their emerging corridor of influence across the region. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

As Syrian war winds down, Israel sets sights on Hezbollah

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri, left, gives a thump up next to his mother, Wafiqa, as he speaks to journalists after being released by a military court, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. Doueiri was briefly detained upon arrival in Lebanon Sunday over previous visits to Israel and is undergoing further questioning on Monday, his ex-wife and Lebanese officials said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese film director briefly detained over Israel visit

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Lebanon to file UN Security Council complaint against Israel

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Illustration on a three-pronged attack on Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The next war against Israel

By Jed Babbin

From right, Evelyn Piazza, attorney Tom Kline and Jim Piazza and walk toward the courthouse before a preliminary hearing resumes for members of a fraternity facing criminal charges over the death of Timothy Piazza, at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore, suffered severe head and abdominal injuries last February, after consuming a dangerous amount of alcohol and fell repeatedly. Help wasn't summoned until the next morning, and he later died at a hospital. (Phoebe Sheehan/Centre Daily Times via AP)

The Latest: Judge to soon rule in Penn State frat death case

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UN extends Lebanon peacekeeping; US, Israel prompt changes

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Joseph Aoun, right, and Spanish Defense Minister Yacoub Sarraf, left, listen to Lebanese President Michel Aoun, speaking to journalists at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Aoun declared victory against the Islamic State group Wednesday in a live statement praising the Lebanese army for carrying out the operation that ended with the deal to evacuate IS fighters and their families in return for information about nine troops who were kidnapped by IS in August 2014. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

U.S. airstrikes block evacuation of Islamic State militants

By BASSEM MROUE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Attorney Tom Kline, left, walks with the parents of Timothy Piazza, Jim and Evelyn Piazza, toward the courthouse before a preliminary hearing resumes for members of a fraternity facing criminal charges over the death of their son, at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore, suffered severe head and abdominal injuries last February, after consuming a dangerous amount of alcohol and fell repeatedly. Help wasn't summoned until the next morning, and he later died at a hospital. (Phoebe Sheehan/Centre Daily Times via AP)

The Latest: Lawyers want fraternity death charges dropped

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This photo provided on Monday, Aug 28, 2017 by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows buses gathering before a planned evacuation of Islamic State group militants, in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria. The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military offensive to drive the militants out of the border area with Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

After deal, IS allowed to leave Syria-Lebanon border area

By HASSAN AMMAR and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US ambassador rebukes head of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters from a group called the Hussein Brigade use a helmet to draw sniper fire, during clashes with the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army, in the town of Hejeira, near Damascus, Syria. Thousands of Iranian-backed fighters in Syria’s desert central region are advancing east on three fronts, bringing Tehran closer to its goal of securing a corridor from its border through Iraq all the way to the Mediterranean that would give it unhindered land access to its allies in Syria and Lebanon for the first time. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo, File)

Iran extends reach with fight for land link to Mediterranean

By BASSEM MROUE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Lebanese army soldiers rappel down from a helicopter onto the deck of the Brazilian warship UNIAO, part of the UNIFIL Maritime force, during a joint training to apprehend the smuggling of illegal material, off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The head of the U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon says his force has no evidence that weapons are being illegally transferred in the country's south, rebuffing criticism the mission is failing to stem their spread. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN force in Lebanon pushes back after US, Israeli criticism

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press