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Hezbollah ( / ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː /; [ 43] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized : Ḥizbu 'llāh, lit. 'Party of God') [ a] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, [ 44][ 45] led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, [ 46] and its political wing is the ...
Hezbollah’s fighting force emerged from the rubble of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Beirut. At the time, it was a rag-tag group of Islamist fighters supported by Iran’s fledgling Islamic Republic.
Hezbollah responded with a barrage of some 320 Katyusha rockets, targeting what it described as 11 military sites in Israel’s north in an initial phase of its response. It also said it launched ...
Exchange of strikes between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been occurring along the Israel–Lebanon border and in Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since 8 October 2023. It is currently the largest escalation of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict to have occurred since the 2006 Lebanon War, and part of the spillover ...
Hezbollah is widely described as comparable to or stronger than the Lebanese Armed Forces in military power. Reasons cited are Hezbollah's better discipline, [ 75] better experience, [ 119] and better weaponry, [ 107][ 119] which give Hezbollah "clearly" [ 120] better military and combat capacity than the LAF. [ 75]
An arch glorifying Hezbollah and baring pictures of its chief Hassan Nasrallah (R) and Iran's spiritual leader Ali Khamenei decorates a street of Beirut's southern subburb on January 16, 2011.
23 October. After a day of IDF strikes against Hezbollah missile teams, in the evening an anti-tank guided missile was fired toward Kiryat Shmona. Two were injured, and a house was damaged. The IDF responded with continued airstrikes against missile and rocket teams, along with strikes against Hezbollah border posts.
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist movement with one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East. The group, which has its main base on the Israel-Lebanon border, could become a ...