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The US put sanctions on a Hezbollah-linked bank, a likely show of support for Israel as conflict ...

US officials entered the surging conflict between Israel and Lebanon Monday, imposing sanctions on a Lebanese bank linked to Hezbollah./ It came as Israel identified what it said were the leaders of an Iran-backed Hezbollah tech project which has prompted a series of air strikes./ Tensions in the region are at their highest since Lebanon and Israel fought a brutal, month-long war in 2006./ The US jumped to support Israel in its escalating confrontation with Hezbollah, and its sponsor Iran, by imposing new sanctions on a Lebanese bank it ...

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