Hizballah
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Hezbollah
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 Flag of Hezbollah |
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| Secretary-General | Hassan Nasrallah |
| Founded | 1985 (official) |
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| Parliament of Lebanon |
12 / 128
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| Cabinet of Lebanon |
2 / 30
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| Lebanese Resistance Brigades Saraya al-Moukawama al-Lubnaniyya |
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سرايا المقاومة اللبنانية Participant in South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) and Battle of Sidon (2013) |
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| Active | 1998–2000 2009–present |
| Leaders |
Mohammed Aknan (Beirut) |
| Area of operations | Southern Lebanon, mainly Sidon |
| Part of | Hezbollah |
| Allies | March 8 Alliance |
| Opponents |
 IsraelSLA  Al-Nusra FrontFatah al-Islam Jund al-Sham  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| Battles and wars | Battle of Sidon (2013) |
Hezbollah (pronounced /ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː/;Arabic: حزب الله Ḥizbu 'llāh, literally "Party of Allah" or "Party of God")—also transliterated Hizbullah, Hizballah, etc.—is a Shi'a Islamist militant group and political party based in Lebanon. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese parliament. After the death of Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, the group has been headed by Hassan Nasrallah, its Secretary-General.
After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 in support of the Free Lebanon State, Israel occupied a strip of south Lebanon, which was controlled by the South Lebanon Army (SLA), a Lebanese Christian militia supported by Israel. Hezbollah was founded in the early 1980s as part of an Iranian effort to aggregate a variety of militant Lebanese Shi'a groups under one roof. Hezbollah acts as a proxy for Iran in the ongoing Iran–Israel proxy conflict. Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran primarily to harass the Israeli occupation. Its leaders were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of 1,500 Revolutionary Guards that arrived from Iran with permission from the Syrian government, which was in occupation of Lebanon at the time. Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its objectives as the expulsion of "the Americans, the French and their allies definitely from Lebanon, putting an end to any colonialist entity on our land", submission of the Phalangists to "just power" and bringing them to justice "for the crimes they have perpetrated against Muslims and Christians", and permitting "all the sons of our people" to choose the form of government they want, while calling on them to "pick the option of Islamic government".
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