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A gunman Wednesday exchanged gunfire with Lebanese soldiers outside the U.S. Embassy near Beirut. The attacker, a Syrian national, was shot and has been hospitalized, the Lebanese military said. No soldiers were wounded. The attempted attack comes amid heightened tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Imtiaz Tyab has more.
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