‘Leave now’: U.S., U.K. tell citizens to get out of Lebanon as Middle East war escalates

The U.S. and the United Kingdom urged their citizens over the weekend to get out of Lebanon amid growing signs that a long-feared full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah may be imminent, and as fears mount that the entire region could soon be engulfed by the kind of violent escalation Washington has desperately tried to prevent. The blunt warnings from American and British officials served as a public recognition by leading Western powers that the situation across the Middle East is at its most dangerous inflection point since the Oct....