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During the 2023 conflict in Israel, U.S. intelligence reports indicated that Russia provided air support to Hezbollah for attacks against Israel. Russia's Wagner paramilitary organization reportedly transferred a Pantsir-S1 system to Hezbollah. The Pantsir, known as the SA-22 in NATO terminology, is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and ...
More than 550 people were killed and 1,800 injured as the Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalates. Photos reveal chaos and devastation from Israel's attacks on Hezbollah in civilian areas.
On 23 September 2024, the IDF began posting pictures and videos of what it claimed was evidence of Hezbollah placing weapons in people's homes. [ 558 ] [ 559 ] They also released video footage of secondary explosions after targeting buildings which it says are from Hezbollah munitions stored in residential areas.
Hezbollah may adopt tactics Russia used in Ukraine, experts told The Wall Street Journal. The Kremlin has provided support to Hezbollah and other groups in the Middle East.
Hezbollah has especially close relations with Iran, [5] with the Alawite leadership in Syria, specifically with President Hafez al-Assad (until his death in 2000) and his son and successor Bashar al-Assad, [6] and has sent fighters in support of Assad in the Syrian Civil War. Hezbollah declared its support for the now-concluded Al-Aqsa Intifada.
The Kremlin on Monday condemned the killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air attack last week and said it assessed the risk of a major Middle East war as "extremely high".
Hezbollah has long been an ally of the Ba'ath government of Syria, ruled by the Al-Assad family.Hezbollah has helped the Ba'athist regime during the Syrian civil war in its fight against the Syrian opposition, which Hezbollah has described as a "plot to destroy its alliance with al-Assad against Israel". [14]
Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Hezbollah was still organised and had not lost its chain of command despite strikes by Israel which Moscow said was trying to stoke an armed ...