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Hezbollah backs Lebanese government’s efforts to get financial help from IMF, but urges caution

By Associated Press

Anger in Beirut as Hezbollah supporters mourn Soleimani

Members of Hezbollah and their supporters gathered on Sunday in Beirut, Lebanon, to mourn the death of Iran's top military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. military airstrike on Friday in Iraq. NewsHour Weekend Special correspondent…

By Jane Ferguson

Hezbollah vows to end U.S. military presence in region

Hassan Nasrallah said the U.S. military “will pay the price” for the U.S. drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq Friday.

By Nasser Karimi, Jon Gambrell, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

Asaib Ahl al-Haq Shi'ite militia fighters from the south of Iraq and Kurdish peshmerga forces walk with their weapons as they take control of Sulaiman Pek from the Islamist State militants, in the northwest of Tikrit city September 1, 2014. Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

How Iran has created a network of powerful allies in the Middle East

If Iran decides to retalitate for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allies across the Middle East that are within easy striking distance of U.S. forces and American allies.

By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a commander in the Popular Mobilization Forces, attends the funeral of Ahmed Chalabi in Baghdad, Iraq, November 3, 2015. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily/File Photo

Iraqi militant killed in U.S. strike worked with Iran for decades

Al-Muhandis was the deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group of mostly Shiite paramilitaries.

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

U.S. strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor’s death

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

U.S. forces conducted “precision defensive strikes” against five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, a Defense Department official said.

Hezbollah-backed professor to form new Lebanese government

By Sarah El Deeb, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

Lebanon's president Thursday asked a university professor and former education minister supported by the militant Hezbollah group to form a new government, breaking a weeks-long impasse amid nationwide mass protests against the country's political elite.

For Israelis along the Lebanon and Gaza borders, even a normal day is plagued with tension

By Ryan Chilcote

Attacks and reprisals between Israel and its enemies occur regularly, now and then exploding into all-out war. In particular, Israeli security is threatened by militant groups like Hamas in the south and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to the north. Ryan Chilcote reports…

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News Wrap: 19 states sue over extended migrant detention limits

In our news wrap Monday, 19 states sued to stop rollback of limits on detaining migrant children. The 1997 Flores agreement generally limits that period to 20 days, but President Trump wants to be able to hold entire families longer.

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Lebanon holds first general elections in 9 years

By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press

Tens of thousands of Lebanese cast their ballots Sunday in the first parliamentary elections in nine years, a vote that is being fiercely contested between rival groups backed by regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia.