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…es, Russia and the United Nations "to find a way out of the deadlock." Article 5 Foreign Policy Why Does Europe Pretend Hezbollah Has a Good Side? Matthew Levitt HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028694 February 12, 2013 -- Bulgaria's interior minister announced on Feb. 5 the result of his country...

…he group's political echelon, sought to procure a long list of sophisticated weapons in a black-market scheme involving Hezbollah operatives across the globe. According to court documents, Hodroj wanted "heavy machinery" for the "fight against Jews and to protect Lebanon." But mo...

Under this structure, Hezbollah's militia and terrorist activities, along with its security organ, all report to the Jihad Council. Until he was killed, Mughniyeh was Hezbollah's top militant commander and reportedly led the Jihad Council himself. By some accounts, he also held a...

…005. He also represented the UN Secretary-General in the cease-fire negotiations during the 2006 war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi About the Editors xv NUR LAIQ Nur Laiq is the author of Talking to Arab Youth: Revolution and...

trumps its identity as a Lebanese political movement. The ties that bind Hezbollah's political leadership with its international illicit activities are also unmistakable. According to a CIA document, even before Hassan Nasrallah rose to the position of secretary- general in 1992...

trumps its identity as a Lebanese political movement. The ties that bind Hezbollah's political leadership with its international illicit activities are also unmistakable. According to a CIA document, even before Hassan Nasrallah rose to the position of secretary- general in 1992...

…neralizations, for all their popularity, miss the point. Turkey has not turned Islamist, Lebanon is not in the hands of Hezbollah, and Israel is still an open society. All three countries, of course, are also wracked by division and imperfection; but then two great merits of dem...

…egion. Together with its two principal allies, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah, Syria is viewed with great hostility by Israel and with wary suspicion by the United States. The Tehran-Damascus- Hezbollah axis -- of which Syria is...

reality is often messier. In part, that has to do with compartmentalization of Hezbollah's covert activities. It is also, however, a result of the group's multiple identities -- Lebanese, pan-Shiite, pro- Iranian -- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to t...

damage to Hezbollah's (or Nasrallah's) assets or prestige, that could lead it , despite its basic position, to take action contrary to its true fundamental position. ¢ Incidentally, this doesn't apply solely to "Hezbollah" — but to us too. e¢ Therefore, the working assumptions...

…l help the AKP win the elections. However, it will also invite competition from religious radicals, such as the Kurdish Hezbollah — a violent Sunni group not linked to the Lebanese Shiite group of the same name. Kurdish Hezbollah boasts a wide grassroots network in southeast Turk...

…an driver. Two of the individuals who carried out the terrorist attack, he said, "belonged to the military formation of Hezbollah." It was not by chance that his statement fingered only the military wing of Hezbollah, not the group as a whole. Within the European Union, the find...

…ys a role. The two sides have assembled loosely allied camps. Iran holds in its sway Syria and the militant Arab groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories; in the Saudi sphere are the Sunni Muslim-led Gulf monarchies, Egypt, Morocco and the other main P...

…an driver. Two of the individuals who carried out the terrorist attack, he said, "belonged to the military formation of Hezbollah." It was not by chance that his statement fingered only the military wing of Hezbollah, not the group as a whole. Within the European Union, the find...

22 Hezbollah is a political party with a militia. That’s a big problem. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party has an outsized influence over Israel because of coalition politics. That’s a problem. The Muslim Brotherhood will loom large in a free Egypt because it has an organization...