As Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization by many Arab nations, cutting aid to the Lebanese military, over which the Iranian-backed Shiite organization has a growing influence, would increase the pressure on Hezbollah's financial sources, Israeli security expert says.

Secularist Republican People's Party candidate Ekrem Imamoglu wins repeat mayoral election seen as test of Turks' ability to check what many saw as their president's increasingly authoritarian power.

Economic sanctions on Iran may not bring results on the nuclear front but they have already had an effect on Iran's aggression in the region, impacting the resources Tehran can afford to provide Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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"Those who think that waving billions of dollars can lure Lebanon, which is under the weight of a suffocating economic crisis, into succumbing or bartering over its principles are mistaken," Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says.