Hezbollah
Islamist movement and militant group based in Lebanon
Islamist movement and militant group based in Lebanon
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing. Its military and security activities have been prohibited by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid the 2026 Lebanon war. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016. Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese Shiite clerics in close cooperation with Iran. It emerged in the context of the Lebanese civil war, the collapse of central authority, Iran's strategic interests in Lebanon, and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The movement's formation was shaped by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's model of Islamic governance. Hezbollah subsequently established strong ties with Iran as part of the "Axis of Resistance". The group was initially supported by 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
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