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After Saturday's strikes on Iran, long lines formed at gas stations across Beirut.
Drivers said they feared fuel shortages if fighting broke out.
Several international airlines canceled flights to Beirut, and the U.S.
State Department urged Americans to leave while they still could.
Jawad Rizqallah, NPR News, Beirut.
Hezbollah has warned that it would not stay neutral if Iran were attacked.
Israel, meanwhile, has made clear that it would retaliate, leading to fears that Lebanon again could be dragged into all-out war.
Israel has continued near-daily strikes in South Lebanon despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in late 2024.
But the Lebanese foreign minister has said that Lebanon had received warnings that Israel could attack Lebanese infrastructure targets if Hezbollah intervenes.
After Saturday's strikes on Iran, long lines formed at gas stations across Beirut.
Drivers said they feared fuel shortages if fighting broke out.
Several international airlines canceled flights to Beirut, and the U.S.
State Department urged Americans to leave while they still could.
Jawad Rizqallah, NPR News, Beirut.
The Syrian army entered the Arab city of Tabqa early Sunday.
The city had been held by the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, since 2017 when they pushed ISIS out of it.
Fighting has lasted more than a week.
The SDF already withdrew from Aleppo suburbs and towns further east, leaving Tabqa as the last city they controlled west of the Euphrates River.
A local man speaking anonymously, fearing potential SDF reprisal,
said his cousins joined local Arab tribal fighters in attacking SDF positions before government forces entered.