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In an interview on Al-Arabiya TV in Dubai, former Hezbollah Secretary-General Subhi al-Tufayli said [23] Hezbollah definitely fosters its relations with the Syrians, but Hezbollah's real leadership is 'the rule of the jurists'. Though Hezbollah presence in Syria was limited before 2012, Damascus had been the most important facilitator of ...
The information later turned out to be false, and the U.S. embassy in Beirut stated that the office “is open and operating normally”. The news came after Israel reported that Hezbollah had possibly infiltrated Israel from southern Lebanon. The U.S. warned Hezbollah in Lebanon to not get involved in the fighting between Hamas and Israel. [5]
This is the last and deadliest of fourteen attacks claimed by the “Committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners”, instigated by Fouad Ali Saleh on behalf of Lebanese Hezbollah with the aim of stopping the support provided by France to Iraq in the conflict between it and Iran and to obtain the releases of three terrorists detained in France: Anis Naccache (Iranian ...
Operation Smokescreen was an American interagency counterterrorist operation to disrupt fundraising by Hezbollah, that took place in early 1995, ending in 2002.The operation involved the Sheriff's Office in Iredell County, North Carolina, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the U.S ...
Israel’s apparently impending ground incursion into Lebanon will drive home a new strategic reality of a year of war — the once-mighty US is powerless to rein in its ally or to influence other ...
In 2011, Iran earmarked $7 million to Hezbollah's activities in Latin America. [159] Hezbollah has relied also on funding from the Shi'ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the Triple Frontier, or tri-border area, along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. [160]
United Nations Security Council resolution 1559, adopted on 2 September 2004, after recalling resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982) and 1553 (2004) on the situation in Lebanon, the Council supported free and fair presidential elections in Lebanon, urging the Lebanese government to establish control over its territory, disarm militias like Hezbollah, and facilitate the withdrawal of ...
The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah ...