Hezbollah is a Shiite militant group that is actively involved in the Lebanese government. It holds 14 seats of the 128 seat Lebanese parliament. The group publically opposes the existence of Israel.
Hezbollah is on the U.S. State...
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Hezbollah is a Shiite militant group that is actively involved in the Lebanese government. It holds 14 seats of the 128 seat Lebanese parliament. The group publically opposes the existence of Israel.
Hezbollah is on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations.
Hezbollah leader says the war with Israel has 'not ended yet' as Israel has not halted its 'aggressions' against Lebanon and the region.Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks as Lebanon marked the Hezbollah victory over Israel in the 33-day war. The aftershocks of the war are still reverberating in Israel. More than 100 Israeli soldiers were killed in the 33-day war. Nasrallah said it was a 'historic and divine victory' in Arab-Israeli conflict which shattered the invincibility... Read Full Story
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday accused Israel of seeking to eliminate the Lebanese Shiite movement's leaders, in a televised speech on the second anniversary of the summer war with Israel. "We know you are planning to assassinate leaders of the resistance... but you do not frighten us," he said in the broadcast on the group's Al-Manar television station. Nasrallah made no comment about Israeli charges that Hezbollah was rearming other than to say that "no one should expect us... Read Full Story
The Lebanese parliament overwhelmingly approved a national unity cabinet Tuesday that gives Hizbullah a more powerful say in the running of the country. Hizbullah and its allies have 11 out of 30 seats in the cabinet, enabling them to have veto power over major decisions, keep their weapons and prevent the government from moving too close to the United States. More
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How the U.N. paved the way to a terrorist army's recovery Israeli leaders have been meeting with world leaders to try and stir up some alarm over what’s happening in Lebanon. Last week Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to tell him how brazenly Hezbollah and Syria have been flouting UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that purported to put a peaceful end to the summer 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. More
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Resistance is Lebanon's jargon for Hezbollah, which is admired by many in Lebanon for its stand against Israel. All territories alludes to Lebanon's territorial claim on the Shaba Farms area that Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war. After Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war, militias were ordered dissolved, but Hezbollah fighters were allowed to keep their weapons because they were considered a resistance group fighting Israeli troops that occupied part of southern Lebanon until... Read Full Story
