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Hezbollah
Nov 13 2009, Brandon

Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side.

Radicals have escalated their rhetoric as hopes for progress on an Israeli-Palestinian deal have...

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Palestinian Salah Yassin reacts as a burning effigy of President George W. Bush falls on him during a rally in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008. The rally is in response to Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah’s call on..