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Danny Danon, Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations, told ABC News on Thursday that his nation is ready to intensify military action against Iran-aligned Hezbollah in Lebanon amid ...
Lebanon's Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel said on Saturday it has killed, led Hezbollah through decades of conflict with Israel, overseeing its transformation into a military force with ...
t. e. Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militia group, [1][2] has an exceptionally strong military wing, thought to be stronger than the Lebanese Army [3][4] and equivalent to the armed strength of a medium-sized army. [5][a] A hybrid force, the group maintains "robust conventional and unconventional military capabilities ...
Hezbollah (/ ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː /; [44] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu 'llāh, pronounced [ħizbu‿lːaːh], lit. 'Party of God') [a] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party, military - resistance organization, that also provides social welfare and religious education services. [45] Hezbollah is a key player in the Lebanese ...
Hezbollah, or “the Party of God,” arose during Lebanon’s civil war in the late 1970s, when tensions between the country’s leading religious groups were at an all-time high.
A sign commemorating Hezbollah in South Lebanon. Hezbollah has not revealed its armed strength. It has been estimated by Mustafa Alani, security director at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre, that Hezbollah's military force is made up of about 1,000 full-time Hezbollah members, along with a further 6,000-10,000 volunteers. [57]
The Iran-backed militant group said the wireless devices began to explode around 3:30 p.m. local time in a targeted Israeli attack on Hezbollah operatives. CNN learned that Israel was behind the ...
Ranks. Military ranks of Lebanon. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية, romanized:Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya), also known as the Lebanese Army[ 3 ] (Arabic: الجيش اللبناني, romanized:Al-Jaish al-Lubnani), is the military of Lebanon. It consists of three branches, the ...