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The United States is struggling to sideline Hezbollah without further splintering faction-ridden Lebanon.
Congress and the Barack Obama administration have adopted a dual strategy of trying to starve the Shiite militia of funds while bankrolling state institutions they hope can provide a US-friendly counterweight. To that end, the president signed into law new financial sanctions on Hezbollah in December, while Congress and the State Department have been steadily increasing economic and security support for the Lebanese government and its police and military forces.
