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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 ...
While acknowledging that "Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics," [20] he says that it is unhelpful to call it a terrorist organization; the United States and the international community, in his view, would do well to respect it as a legitimate political party. On the other end of the spectrum, there are some in the United Nations who deny that ...
The United States holds Hezbollah responsible for a suicide bombing that destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in 1983, killing 241 servicemen, and a suicide attack the same year on the ...
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 has a military branch and is the sponsor of a number of lesser-known groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself. These groups include the Organization of the Oppressed, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, the Organization of Right Against Wrong, and Followers of the Prophet Muhammad.
Hezbollah has risen from a shadowy group established during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war to a heavily armed force with big sway over the Lebanese state. Governments including the United States deem ...
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]
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israel across the border for days in the deadliest escalation since they fought a major war in 2006, threatening to expand a conflict between ...