Associated Press
| May 20, 2013
This amateur video, shot over the weekend, shows Syrian rebels under intense attack as their stronghold of Qusayr is shelled and they scramble to save themselves and fallen comrades. The death toll is mounting, but Reuters reports that several dea...
Euronews
| May 19, 2013
Syrian government troops have launched a major offensive to retake the strategically important rebel stronghold of Qusayr near Lebanon, and killed dozens, mostly civilians trapped by the fighting. Syrian forces are reportedly being supported by He...
Euronews
| May 6, 2013
Israel is on high alert as it gears up for possible retaliation after launching a second set of air strikes on military targets in Syria. The Israeli government has sent more tanks to its northern border, and is arranging to station two missile ...
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Mosaic
| Apr 16, 2013
As the conflict in Syria continues to escalate, it is increasingly spilling over into neighboring countries. Lebanese villagers near the border with Syria have formed armed militia groups to patrol the outskirts of their areas. They claim their vi...
Euronews
| Mar 20, 2013
The first day of President Obama's Israel visit included a press conference with PM Benyamin Netanyahu where he issued a stern warning to the Syrian regime about chemical weapons. Obama said use of chemical weapons would be a "serious and tr...
Russia Today
| Feb 21, 2013
At least 31 people have been killed by a series of blasts in central Damascus, including a huge car bomb that damaged the Russian Embassy and the offices of the ruling Ba'ath party. The bombings came as the Free Syrian Army's 48-hour ultimatum for...
New TV
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Mosaic
| Feb 19, 2013
The Free Syrian Army has disowned an earlier statement in which it had apparently vowed to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. The original threat of force was made over accusations that Iranian-backed Hezbollah is working alongside government forces in ...
Euronews
| Jan 31, 2013
Syria has lodged a formal complaint with the UN over an air strike inside the country blamed on Israel. There is confusion over what was actually hit, with Syrian state television reporting two people killed and five injured in the strike against ...
Euronews
| Jan 31, 2013
Russia has angrily condemned the reported Israeli air strike near Damascus, calling it an unacceptable violation of the UN charter. Syria says Israeli jets destroyed a research center, killing two people, while other reports suggest the jets targe...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 30, 2013
Israeli jets have attacked a target near Damascus in the country's first strike inside Syria for more than five years, regional security sources say. Syria has confirmed the air strike but denies that it hit a convoy carrying weapons to Hezbollah ...
— Mar 20, 2012 at 07:51 am
— Nov 11, 2012 at 08:32 pm
...at home in Lebanon – the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri comes to mind – and abroad. In August of this year, the US san...
— Dec 22, 2011 at 01:01 pm
...with intelligence and a portion of the income. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, instructed a group of wives of Hezbollah operatives to “stop ta...
— Dec 14, 2011 at 09:20 pm
...and walls throughout Syria are now regularly torched. Until recently, Mr Nasrallah, a Shiite, was a pan-Arab icon. His standing as Hezbollah's ...
Hezbollah — also transliterated Hizbullah, Hizballah, etc. — is a Shi'a Islamic militant group and political party based in Lebanon. It receives financial and political support from Iran and Syria, and its paramilitary wing is regarded as a resistance movement throughout much of the Arab and Muslim worlds. The governments of the U.S., Netherlands, Bahrain, France, U.K., Australia, Canada, and Israel classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, in whole or in part.
Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and was primarily formed to offer resistance to the Israeli occupation. Its leaders were inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Hezbollah's 1985 manifesto listed its four main goals as "Israel's final departure from Lebanon as a prelude to its final obliteration", ending "any imperialist power in Lebanon", submission of the Phalangists to "just rule" and bringing them to trial for their crimes, and giving the people the chance to choose "with full freedom the system of government they want", while not hiding its commitment to the rule of Islam. Hezbollah leaders have also made numerous statements calling for the destruction of the state of Israel, which they refer to as the "Zionist entity".
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