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The Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah and its political allies won more than half the seats in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in...More
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unveiling of a trove of Iranian nuclear documents offered no evidence of violations of the 2015...More
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