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Lebanon gained its independence on November 22, 1943, with the French army withdrawing its soldiers from Lebanon in 1946. The Lebanese National Pact became the framework for governance, leading to the allocation of political privileges, such as membership in parliament as well as senior bureaucratic and political appointments, to each of the 17 recognized sectarian communities based roughly on ...
Hezbollah. Ibrahim Aqil (Arabic: ابراهيم عقيل; b. 24 December 1962/1 January 1962/20 March 1961/1958, d. 20 September 2024; also known by his aliases Al-Hajj Tahsin[3] or Al-Hajj Abdul Khader) was a Lebanese militant leader [1] who served as commander-in-chief of Hezbollah 's special operations unit, the Redwan Force. [3][1][4] He ...
Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, May 2023. Hezbollah does not reveal its armed strength. The Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre estimated in 2006 that Hezbollah's armed wing comprises 1,000 full-time Hezbollah members, along with a further 6,000–10,000 volunteers. [206]
01:43. Israel and the Hezbollah militant group exchanged heavy fire across Lebanon ’ s border on Sunday, fueling fears of a wider conflict in the region as the monthslong war in Gaza continues ...
People gather outside American University of Beirut Medical Center as more than 1,000 people were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 17.
September 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM. Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah positions in Lebanon on Sunday after some of the militant group's rockets targeted the northern Israeli city of Haifa and the ...
e. Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصر الله [ħasan nasˤrɑɫɫɑh]; 31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant group. Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut in 1960, Nasrallah finished his education in Tyre, when he briefly ...
September 17, 2024 at 10:23 AM. Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded in Lebanon and parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing several people, including members of the militant group Hezbollah, and ...