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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. [478] The United States, [416] the Gulf Cooperation Council, [395] Canada, [428] United Kingdom, [415] the Netherlands, [439] Israel, [41] and Australia [425] 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 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 ...
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 ...
Designated in 1979 as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Syria continued its political and military support to various terrorist groups. The Ba'athist regime continued to provide weapons and political support to Hezbollah and continued to allow Iran to rearm and finance the terrorist organization.
Tensions simmered for the next six years until war broke out again on July 12, 2006, after Hezbollah fighters crossed into Israel and ambushed a group of soldiers, killing three of them and taking ...