Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group founded in 1982 by Lebanese clerics in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It maintains strong ties with Iran and is part of the Axis of Resistance. The group operates a vast social services network and holds 15 seats in the Lebanese Parliament. Its paramilitary wing is considered equivalent to a medium-sized army.
CRIMENET has extracted 107 linkages for this organization, including 60 cooperative ties across 28 organizations, 24 conflicts across 12 organizations, 23 other connections and footprints in 14 countries.
The 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, killing 29, in Argentina. Hezbollah operatives boasted of involvement.
Hezbollah provided fighters to fight on the Bosnian Muslim side during the Bosnian War
In 2009, a Hezbollah plot in Egypt was uncovered, where Egyptian authorities arrested 49 men for planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
Beginning in July 2014, Hezbollah sent an undisclosed number of technical advisers and intelligence analysts to Baghdad in support of the Iranian intervention in Iraq.
US courts said that North Korea provided armaments to Hezbollah during the 2006 war.
In 2002, Singapore accused Hezbollah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack US and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.
Hezbollah also played a prominent role in the 2006 Lebanon War and later became involved in the Syrian civil war, where it fought alongside the Syrian government against rebel forces.
a multinational investigation involving Spain, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom uncovered a Hezbollah logistics network operating in Europe. Authorities arrested multiple individuals connected to the procurement of drone components