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BBC News
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Gunmen from the Shia militant group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, driving out supporters of the Western-backed government.
The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah's Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media...
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SF Gate
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Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite militant group, is expanding its military power by recruiting Sunnis, Christians and Druze in preparation for another conflict with Israel, according to sources close to Hezbollah.
In addition to its yearlong politi..
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USA Today
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Iranian forces helped plan one of the most sophisticated militant assaults of the Iraq war — a January raid in which gunmen posed as an American security team and launched an attack that killed five U.S. soldiers, an American general said Monday.
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BBC News
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The leader of the Shia militant group Hezbollah has urged Lebanon's government not to storm a refugee camp to root out Sunni radicals.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Lebanon should not become part of the American war against al-Qaeda.
The Sunni milita..
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Mercury News
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American political leaders watched with alarm during the past week as the Hezbollah militia laid siege to the U.S.-backed Lebanese government, but few would acknowledge publicly what most analysts and politicians here say is obvious: American policy may b..
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MSNBC
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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday the government had declared of war by declaring the communications network illegal. The fighting intensified after he finished speaking.
Ramzi Haidar / AFP - Getty ImagesShiite gunmen pause in the..
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BBC News
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Opposition supporters led by Hezbollah in Lebanon are blocking roads in Beirut on the second day of protests which started as a strike for higher pay.
Activity is limited, with many shops, schools and offices closed. The international airport is also c..
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CNN
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The FBI is warning of possible threats to Jewish targets in the United States, following the car bombing death of a Hezbollah leader in Syria, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been instructed..
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BBC News
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Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its top leaders, Imad Mughniyeh, has died in a bombing in Damascus, and has blamed Israel for assassinating him.
Mughniyeh is widely believed to be behind a wave of Western hostage-taking in Lebanon in the 1980s.
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Washington Post
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Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim militia, and other opposition groups in Lebanon on Thursday denounced the U.N. creation of an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri, calling it a violat..
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USA Today
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday rejected the idea of U.N. intervention to create an international tribunal in the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister.
Nasrallah's comments indicated that the militant group wouldn't cooperate i..
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FOX News
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A government commission that probed Israel's summer war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday of "severe failure," saying he hastily led the country into the conflict without a comprehensive plan.
A copy o..
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SF Gate
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The U.S. Treasury Department considers Hezbollah's construction firm Jihad al Binaa -- "The Struggle to Build" -- a terrorist organization, prohibiting transactions between the firm and American citizens, as well as freezing any assets it may have under U..
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SF Gate
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Abdullah Hassan Nasrallah proudly displayed a check for $11,000 to repair his home, which was damaged in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The money came not from the elected Lebanese government in Beirut, nor Jihad al Binaa, Hezbollah's..
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SF Gate
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During last summer's 34-day war, which began on July 16 after Hezbollah fighters crossed the Lebanon border into Israel and captured two Israeli soldiers, Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets into Israel and attacked Israeli tanks with sophisticated armor..
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Bloomberg
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Six months after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia is rearming, raising the specter that even a small border skirmish might trigger another war.
While Hezbollah militiamen no longer operate at the border fenc..
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BBC News
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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has said a lorry intercepted by the authorities was transporting weapons for its fighters. Hezbollah has demanded the return of the lorry and the arms. Lebanese government officials said that a vehicle had been..
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