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After Israeli forces left Southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah provided military defense of the area. It is suggested by some that the Lebanese Government has at times viewed Hezbollah as the army of South Lebanon. [citation needed] Since summer 2006, though, foreign peacekeepers and Lebanese army troops have also been stationed in the South.
Though Hezbollah organized a very successful rally, opposition leaders were quick to point out that Hezbollah had active support from Lebanon's government and Syria. While the pro-democracy rallies had to deal with road blocks forcing protestors to either turn back or march long distances to Martyr's Square, Hezbollah was able to bus people ...
Continued fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the Shebaa Farms conflict, eventually leading to the 2006 Lebanon War; Dominance of Hezbollah armed strength across Lebanon since 1990; Territorial changes: Syria occupies northern/eastern Lebanon until 30 April 2005; Israel occupies southern Lebanon until 25 May 2000
Subhi al-Tufayli, Hezbollah's former leader, said, "Hezbollah should not be defending the criminal regime that kills its own people and that has never fired a shot in defense of the Palestinians." He said, "those Hezbollah fighters who are killing children and terrorizing people and destroying houses in Syria will go to hell."
The Israel Defense Forces and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been fighting for decades. Recent tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border in response to the war in Gaza could ...
Hezbollah views its conflict with Israel and the Jewish people as religiously motivated. The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict to them is a repeat of the negative interactions between the Jews of medieval Arabia and Muhammad and the early umma described in the Koran and other classical Islamic texts. God, according to Hezbollah theology ...
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, that Israeli officials say killed senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil, wanted by the U.S. for 1983 ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah is trying "to regain strength and rearm with the assistance of Iran," Israel's U.N. ambassador told the Security Council on Monday, declaring that the militants remain a ...