BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United States has imposed sanctions on two officials from the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, the U.S. Treasury Department said, including one who served as a senior military commander in the south of the country.
Nabil Qaouk, a member of the group’s executive council who fought during Israel’s 1982-2000 military occupation of south Lebanon, and Hassan al-Baghdadi were both designated “for being leaders or officials” of Hezbollah.
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