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Lebanon

Police stand guard in front of the government house in Beirut. (AP)

Uncertainty shrouds formation of a new government in Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanese women shout slogans during a protest against the return of the civil war, in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

Lebanese mothers struggle to keep protests non-violent

Lebanon

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks to supporters through a giant screen in the capital Beirut’s southern suburb. (AFP)

Hezbollah is seeking foreign help to protect its power

Lebanon

Lebanese anti-government protesters scuffle with riot police on the eastern end of the Ring Bridge in Beirut, December 4. (AFP)

Lebanon at new crossroads but deadlock likely to endure

Syria

A Syrian refugee waits in Beirut to board a bus to Syria, December 3. (AP)

Fallout on Syria from Lebanon’s crisis is not just economic

Refugees

A woman carries her child as she crosses a wooden bridge in the refugee camp of Moria, on the island of Lesbos on November 26. (AFP)

The plight of refugees in winter

Hezbollah

Under the spotlight. Fighters from the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah movement take part in a military parade marking the party’s Martyrs’ Day in the eastern Bekaa Valley city of Baalbek, November 12 (AFP)

Book offers unprecedented detail on Hezbollah’s structure

Iraq

Lebanese protesters carry the Iraqi national flag as they stage a candlelight vigil outside Iraq's embassy to denounce the excessive use of force against demonstrators there, in the capital Beirut on November 30. (AFP)

Iraq and Lebanon are on the same path

Khairallah Khairallah

Iraq

Iraqi protesters walk past a mural bearing a portrait of a Christian woman with the Iraqi national flag painted on her cheek in Baghdad's Tahrir square, November 21. (AFP)

Uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon reflect the failure of Iran’s project