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On 22 July 2013, the European Union declared the military wings of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization; effectively blacklisting the entity. [479] The United States, [417] the Gulf Cooperation Council, [396] Canada, [429] United Kingdom, [416] the Netherlands, [440] Israel, [41] and Australia [426] have classified Hezbollah as a terrorist ...
In July 2013, the European Union designated the armed wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The foreign ministers of all 28 EU countries agreed to the decision which was based on concerns over Hezbollah's role in the 2012 Burgas bus bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist militant group that the U.S. and several other countries have classified as a terrorist organization. Hezbollah, or “the Party of God,” arose during ...
Hezbollah in Latin America is sanctioned and designated as a terrorist organization by multiple countries and agencies. [54] The United States have issued many sanctions against the group, but they have been more limited in South America compared to its Lebanese sector. [55]
In 2021, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the group had 100,000 fighters. Iran gives Hezbollah weapons and money. The United States estimates Iran has allocated it hundreds of ...
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Islamist movement with one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the Middle East. The group, which has its main base on the Israel-Lebanon border, could become a ...
[48] [49] Kata'ib Hezbollah has received extensive training, funding, logistic support, weapons, and intelligence from the IRGC's overseas military-intelligence service Quds Force. [50] Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH) is officially listed as a terrorist organization by the governments of Japan, [39] United Arab Emirates, and the United States. KH is an ...
In its early days, the group attacked U.S. interests, causing Washington to designate it a terrorist organization. Those attacks included taking U.S. hostages in Beirut and the infamous 1983 truck bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American service members.