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The Daily Star
April 20, 2018
Washington's strong stance against the actions of Hezbollah has filtered into the Lebanese diaspora that supports the group,. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month...$12 | 3 months.
The Daily Star
April 19, 2018
Two United States congressmen introduced a bill this week to the House of Representatives calling for an investigation into Hezbollah. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month...$12 | 3Ãâà...
TheTower.org
April 18, 2018
The upcoming Lebanese elections scheduled for next month could lead to the formation of a “Hezbollah government,” a political scientist told Agence France-Presse in a report published Wednesday. The elections would be the first since 2009 and would be held according to Lebanon's new election lawÃâà...
Foreign Policy
April 13, 2018
But first, the White House has to show that it is prepared to take the lead by designating Hezbollah, a political and militant organization based in Lebanon, as a Transnational Criminal Organization under U.S. law. For a brief moment at the beginning of this year, reviving the pursuit of Hezbollah in LatinÃâà...
The Nation.
April 5, 2018
Just a few kilometers away from the border, where Israel is in the process of erecting a hotly disputed wall to separate itself from the Hezbollah-controlled south, a local official and brigade leader in the Iranian-backed Shia militant group smoked a slim cigarette as he discussed the prospect of yet anotherÃâà...
The Daily Star
March 27, 2018
Hezbollah needs representation in Parliament and Cabinet in order to defend the resistance, the group's leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Monday night ahead of May's parliamentary elections. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content inÃâà...
Al-Manar TV
March 27, 2018
Member of Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, Sayyed Nawwaf Al-Mousawi, blasted the political rhetoric which utilizes the electoral event to distort the image of the Resistance, stressing that such a speech condemns who adopts it, not the addressee. Sayyed Al-Mousawi noted that huge amounts ofÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 27, 2018
Hezbollah - from the original Arabic term meaning “Party of God”, which can also be transliterated as “Hizbullah” or “Hizballah” – is an Iranian-backed Shiite militia group that was established in the early 1980s. It was initially formed to drive foreign forces out of Lebanon and its bombing of French andÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 26, 2018
So, with Hezbollah intrinsically linked to Iran's quest for regional domination, it comes as no surprise that the Lebanese militia is now giving extensive support to the Yemeni Shiite opposition terror group the Houthis, in their pursuit to bring down Yemen's anti-Iranian President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in aÃâà...
Long War Journal
March 24, 2018
In a recent interview with the Lebanese publication Al Akhbar, Abdel Malek al Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi insurgent group, again promised his forces would fight alongside Hezbollah in a future conflict with Israel in Lebanon. “If there is a new war with Israel, we will not hesitate toÃâà...
Al-Manar TV
March 23, 2018
Hezbollah Media Relations Department announced on Friday that an electoral alliance has been formed with the Amal Movement, Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Democratic Party in Baabda, announcing forming the “National Accord” list which includes the parliamentary candidates: Ali AmmarÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 23, 2018
The leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels has warned that his fighters would unite with Hezbollah against Israel if a war erupted in Lebanon or Palestine. Abdul Malik al-Houthi told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on Friday that "our announcement that we are prepared to send fighters in any Israeli warÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 22, 2018
US sources said that the German government is hampering the European approval of a major US demand to designate the militias of the Lebanese Hezbollah Party, not just its military wing, as a terrorist organization, as part of the talks to amend the Iranian nuclear deal. Two sources familiar with the USÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 15, 2018
What began seven years ago as an uprising against the Assad regime has become a regional proxy war. Now there is talk of another war in the offing, one between Hezbollah and Israel. What would that look like, and how would it differ from the 2006 conflict? Special correspondent Jane Ferguson joinsÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 5, 2018
This statement has attracted the attention of the US administration, which attempts to justify keeping its forces in Iraq using a few schemes. The US creates new terrorist grouplets to justify the continued deployment of its forces in Iraq," a Hezbollah spokesperson said. The statement came a few days after theÃâà...
The National
March 3, 2018
However, it does not mean that Washington is about to reduce pressure on Hezbollah outside Lebanon, including militarily in Syria and Yemen. From the Israeli side, declarations that it will not accept the presence of Iranian bases in Syria are being coupled with speculation that the Israelis are planning aÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 2, 2018
Syria is facing a new turn in its civil war, and Hezbollah militants haven't shown this much anticipation at the possibility of a conflict with Israel since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011. “We are very ready for the possibility of a war breaking out, and it will be unlike any other,” said Ahmad,Ãâà...
Gatestone Institute
March 1, 2018
During a joint news conference on February 4 in Buenos Aires with Argentina's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Faurie, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pledged to combat Hezbollah's fundraising in Latin America, which is used to finance its terrorist operations. This indicates that U.S. intelligence andÃâà...
Mail & Guardian
March 1, 2018
Sidling down the mean streets of Syria with his rifle, he picks off his enemies relentlessly: Ahmed is the hero of the video game Lebanon's Hezbollah movement launched on Wednesday. The Shiite armed group held a ceremony and news conference in Beirut to unveil the latest production of its electronicÃâà...
Haaretz
March 1, 2018
The IDF foresees a threat underground as well, assuming Hezbollah has tunnels in Lebanon not necessarily to infiltrate Israel but to store weapons and shelter fighters. Another problem is that this time fighting in the north could mean on the Syrian border as well. A front could also open up in Gaza in theÃâà...
Daily Telegraph
February 28, 2018
THERE is a group that was described by a senior US security official 15 years ago as the “A-Team of terrorists” and has only gone from strength to strength in the years since then. This group perpetrates violent acts against civilians, calls for mass murder and, by its own admission, doesn't differentiateÃâà...
The Hill
February 27, 2018
For a brief moment, the secretary of State appeared ready to challenge the status quo. But it was not meant to be. On a whirlwind tour of the Middle East this month, it seemed that Secretary Tillerson's every word faced critical parsing back home. In the region, on the hand, things went according to plans,Ãâà...
Foreign Affairs
February 21, 2018
Another war between Israel and Hezbollah is almost inevitable. Although neither side wants a conflict now, the shifting balance of power in the Levant and shrinking areas of contestation are indicators of a looming showdown. The real questions are how and where—not if—the impending conflagration willÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 16, 2018
Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Iranian-backed movement Hezbollah, urged Lebanon's government Friday to stand firm against Israel, with force if necessary, to assert access to an anticipated energy windfall. Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus skirt the Levant Basin in the eastern Mediterranean, where bigÃâà...
CNN
February 15, 2018
He urged Lebanese leaders to uphold Lebanon's commitment to disassociating itself from foreign conflicts. "The international community expects all parties in Lebanon to fulfill this commitment, including Hezbollah, which should withdraw and cease its activities abroad in order to help reduce tensions in theÃâà...
FRANCE 24
December 31, 1999
Sidling down the mean streets of Syria with his rifle, he picks off his enemies: Ahmed is the hero of the video game, and hi-tech recruiting tool, launched by Hezbollah on Wednesday. The Lebanese Shiite armed group held a ceremony and news conference in Beirut Wednesday to unveil the latestÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
A new video game has allowed players to join Lebanese Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah in its battle against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Syria and Lebanon. Dar al-Manar, a project of Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media outlet Al-Manar, published a trailer for its new title Holy Defense onÃâà...
