Foreign relations of Hezbollah#Designation as a terrorist organization

UN Security Council Resolution 1559, calls for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militia",{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8616.doc.htm|author=Security Council (Press Release)|title=SECURITY COUNCIL NOTES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN LEBANON|date=23 January 2006|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060726065040/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8616.doc.htm|archive-date=26 July 2006}} echoing the Taif Agreement that ended the Lebanese Civil War, but does not explicitly include HezbollahUnited Nations 24 July 2006 [https://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=908 Press Encounter with the Secretary-General at the Security Council Stakeout] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928080926/http://www.un.org/apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=908 |date=28 September 2008 }} Accessed 5 August 2006United Nations, 17 October 2005 [https://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites/hilites_arch_view.asp?HighID=407 Highlights of the Spokesman's Noon Briefing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529094707/http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites/hilites_arch_view.asp?HighID=407 |date=29 May 2012 }} Accessed 5 August 2006 although Kofi Annan has advanced this interpretation.United Nations, 22 July 2006 [https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19277&Cr=Leban&Cr1= US and UN share broad long-range objectives on Middle East – Annan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305024255/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19277&Cr=Leban&Cr1= |date=5 March 2016 }} Accessed 5 August 2006United Nations, 26 October 2005 [https://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2005/673 S/2005/673 Letter dated 26 October 2005 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174914/http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S%2F2005%2F673 |date=3 March 2016 }} Accessed 5 August 2006 The Lebanese Government

{{cite news|publisher=CNN|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/06/lebanon.report/index.html|title=Hezbollah disarmament unclear|date=7 May 2005|access-date=5 August 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513213945/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/06/lebanon.report/index.html|archive-date=13 May 2006}} and Hezbollah dispute the application of this resolution to Hezbollah, referring to it as a "resistance movement" and not a militia. Israel has lodged complaints about Hezbollah's actions with the UN.{{cite web

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The UN's Deputy Secretary-General, Mark Malloch Brown, contests characterisations of the Lebanese militia as a terrorist organisation in the mould of al-Qaeda.{{cite news|title=No peace without Hezbollah, says Beirut|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/no-peace-without-hezbollah-says-beirut/2006/08/03/1154198272544.html|date=4 August 2006|access-date=7 August 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060806112851/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/no-peace-without-hezbollah-says-beirut/2006/08/03/1154198272544.html|archive-date=6 August 2006}}

While acknowledging that "Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics,"{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206774,00.html|title=U.N.'s Malloch Brown Questions Hezbollah's 'Terror' Designation|publisher=FOx News|access-date=7 August 2006|date=3 August 2006|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060803172552/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206774,00.html|archive-date=3 August 2006}} he says that it is unhelpful to call it a terrorist organization; the United States and the international community, in his view, would do well to respect it as a legitimate political party. On the other end of the spectrum, there are some in the United Nations who deny that Hezbollah's military activities against civilians are terrorist in nature at all.Bayefsky, Anne. [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525833380&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter "Kofi Annan to Hizbullah's rescue?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203221839/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525833380&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter |date=3 February 2012 }} Editorial. Jerusalem Post. 8 August 2006. 23 December 2006.[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/MembersCVs/Aboul-Nasr.pdf OHCHR] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808220512/http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/MembersCVs/Aboul-Nasr.pdf |date=8 August 2007 }} UN Biography Mahmoud Aboul-Nasr

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In a 20 July 2006 article, scholar Fred Halliday wrote that Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of Hezbollah under Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, told him Hezbollah follows Iran's leadership as a matter of principle.

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In an interview on Al-Arabiya TV in Dubai, former Hezbollah Secretary-General Subhi al-Tufayli said: "Hezbollah definitely fosters its relations with the Syrians, but Hezbollah's real leadership is 'the rule of the jurists'."{{cite web|url=http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1132wmv&ak=null|title=Video clip|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070228041127/http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1132wmv&ak=null|archive-date=28 February 2007}}

Though Hezbollah presence in Syria was limited before 2012, Damascus had been the most important facilitator of Iranian support to the group and became increasingly active as a provider of material and political assistance on its own in the 2000s.{{Cite book|title=Why States Rebel. Understanding State Sponsorship of Terrorism|last=Kirchner|first=Magdalena|publisher=Barbara Budrich|year=2016|isbn=978-3-8474-0641-9|location=Opladen|pages=220–230}}

Beginning in 2012, Hezbollah aided the Ba'athist Syrian government during the Syrian Civil War in the fight against the rebels, which Hezbollah has described as a Wahhabi-Zionist conspiracy to destroy its alliance with Syria against Israel.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/middleeast/mystery-in-hezbollah-operatives-life-and-death.html|title=Mystery in Hezbollah Operative's Life and Death|first=Anne|last=Barnard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703043326/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/middleeast/mystery-in-hezbollah-operatives-life-and-death.html|archive-date=3 July 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/middleeast/syria.html|title=Car Bombing Injures Dozens in Hezbollah Section of Beirut|first=Anne|last=Barnard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 July 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221144640/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/middleeast/syria.html|archive-date=21 December 2016}}

Hezbollah's co-operation Syria ended in 2024 when the Assad regime was overthrown.{{cite news |title=What the fall of Assad means for Iran's regional influence |url=https://www.newarab.com/analysis/what-fall-assad-means-irans-regional-influence |access-date=6 May 2025}}

According to Israeli author Ehud Yaari, Hezbollah's presence and strategy in Lebanon is a model for Hamas in terms of military, political, and media operations.{{cite web |url=http://www.example.org/ |title=Hamas Opts for the Hezbollah Model|last=Yaari|first=Ehud |author-link=Ehud Yaari|publisher=The Washington Institute for Near East Policy |date=June 3, 2014 |website= |access-date=May 18, 2021}} The two groups share common tactics and common goals.

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}} According to Israeli military analysts, Hezbollah has assisted Hamas in producing "[more] lethal bombs."{{cite news |last1=Moore|first1=Molly|last2= Anderson |first2=John Ward |date=August 18, 2002|title=Suicide Bombers Change Mideast's Military Balance|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/08/18/suicide-bombers-change-mideasts-military-balance/8e7e9f44-c71a-4dc9-861e-d0f5bea53150/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=May 18, 2021}} After the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, Hezbollah's leader Nasrallah declared his organization's support for the intifada supported by the PLO, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other organizations.{{cite book |last= Nasrallah |first=Sayyed Hassan|editor-last1= Noe|editor-first1= Nicholas|editor-last2=Blandford|editor-first2= Nicholas |title=Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah |publisher=Verso |date=2007 |page=231 |location=London |isbn=978-1844671533}} Hezbollah began also to broadcast "continuous" anti-Israeli propaganda into Palestinian homes on its al-Manar television station, a tactic that reportedly led to the Hezbollah station becoming widely watched in Palestinian homes.{{cite thesis |journal=Calhoun|title=Hezbollah psychological warfare against Israel|publication-place=Naval Postgraduate School |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36698553.pdf|location=Monterey, California|date=March 2009|volume=3|author-last=Brennen|author-first=Lisa}}

In 2013, it was reported that Hezbollah had ordered Hamas to leave Lebanon, on account of Hamas' support for forces fighting against the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. Both Hamas and the Lebanese Islamic Jihad denied these reports.{{cite web|first=Ariel Ben|last= Solomon|url=https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Hezbollah-orders-Hamas-out-of-Lebanon-314850|title=Report: Hezbollah orders Hamas out of Lebanon|work=The Jerusalem Post|date= 30 May 2013|access-date=May 18, 2021}}

There is no concrete evidence of Hezbollah contact or cooperation with al-Qaida. US and Israeli counter-terrorism officials claim that Hezbollah has (or had) links to Al Qaeda, although Hezbollah's leaders deny these allegations.Stinson, Jeffrey. [https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-28-lebanon-hezbollah_x.htm "Minister: Hezbollah doesn't need al-Qaeda's help fighting Israel in Lebanon."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522155832/http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-28-lebanon-hezbollah_x.htm |date=22 May 2011 }} USA Today. 28 July 2006. 17 February 2006. United States intelligence officials also speculate there has been contact between Hezbollah and low-level al-Qaeda figures who fled Afghanistan for Lebanon.See:

• {{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/terrorism-alliance/|author=CBS News|title=Terrorism Alliance?|date=26 July 2002|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517020357/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/26/attack/main516585.shtml|archive-date=17 May 2007|ref=none}}
• {{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.terror/|publisher=CNN World News|author=Mike Boettcher, Henry Schuster|title=New terror alliance suspected in Iraq|date=13 August 2003|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513004710/http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.terror/|archive-date=13 May 2006|ref=none}}{{cite web|url=http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/78/hezbollah-al-qaeda-ties-increase-danger-in-lebanon|title=Douglas Farah|work=douglasfarah.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060818203054/http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/78/hezbollah-al-qaeda-ties-increase-danger-in-lebanon|archive-date=18 August 2006}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-berman071202.asp|publisher=The National Review|title=The new front, An ominous alliance in Lebanon|date=12 July 2002|access-date=12 July 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020716134533/http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-berman071202.asp|archive-date=16 July 2002}}{{cite web|url=http://www.borrull.org/e/noticia.php?id=5374 |publisher=The Washington Post/The International Herald Tribune|title=Qaeda and Hezbollah seen in alliance of terror|date=1 July 2002|access-date = 1 July 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927235113/http://www.borrull.org/e/noticia.php?id=5374 |archive-date=27 September 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=425 |publisher=Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya |title=The Al-Qaida-Hizballah Connection |date=26 February 2006 |access-date=26 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819123153/http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=425 |archive-date=19 August 2006 |url-status=dead }} Ali Mohamed testified that Hezbollah trained al-Qaeda operatives on how to use explosives.Priest, Dana and Douglas Farah. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2324-2002Jun29 "Terror Alliance Has U.S. Worried."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707213618/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2324-2002Jun29/ |date=7 July 2018 }} Washington Post. 30 June 2002. 18 September 2006. In addition, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda cooperate through money laundering, smuggling, and document forgeries. Some American newspapers have suggested a broader alliance between Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.See:
• {{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6581-2004Jun25.html|first=Dan|last=Eggen|newspaper=Washington Post|title=9/11 Panel Links Al Qaeda, Iran|date=26 June 2004|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050420163428/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6581-2004Jun25.html|archive-date=20 April 2005|ref=none}}
• {{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/16spec1.htm|first=Hamid|last=Mir|work=Rediff.com|title=Al Quaeda and the Iranian connection|date=16 July 2004|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428155021/http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/16spec1.htm|archive-date=28 April 2006|ref=none}}

Al-Qaeda leaders, such as former al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, consider Shia, which most Hezbollah members are, to be apostates, as do Salafi-jihadis today.

On the other hand, others point out that al-Qaeda's Sunni ideology is fundamentally incompatible with Hezbollah's relatively liberal brand of Shia Islam; in fact, some Wahhabi leaders and al-Qaeda members consider Hezbollah to be apostate.

There was a fatwa issued several years ago by Abdullah Ibn Jibreen, a former member of Saudi Arabia's Council of Senior Ulema, which describes Hezbollah as "rafidhi" – a derogatory term for Shiites used by some Sunni fanatics. Even during 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict it was cited by some hardline Sunni Muslim clerics and others writing on Islamist website.

Al-Qaeda has demonstrated its distaste for Shi'as in suicide bombings and attacks on Shi'a civilian targets in Iraq.{{cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/407AAE91-AF72-45D7-83E9-486063C0E5EA.htm |author=Al Jazeera |title=Al-Zarqawi declares war on Iraqi Shia |date=14 September 2005 |access-date=26 July 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024004108/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/407AAE91-AF72-45D7-83E9-486063C0E5EA.htm |archive-date=24 October 2005 }} Hezbollah denies any ties to al-Qaeda{{cite news|url=http://english.people.com.cn/200207/01/eng20020701_98923.shtml|title=Lebanon's Hezbollah Denies Link with Al-Qaeda|author=People's Daily (China)|date=1 July 2002|access-date=26 July 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618170650/http://english.people.com.cn/200207/01/eng20020701_98923.shtml|archive-date=18 June 2006}} and al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has issued an audio recording in which he called Hezbollah an "enemy of Sunnis." Saint Petersburg Times, ABC News, and MSNBC report that there exists no evidence of a connection between Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.Jane's World Insurgency and Terrorism.[http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit060726_1_n.shtml Group Profile: Hizbullah] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822074836/http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit060726_1_n.shtml |date=22 August 2006 }} Accessed 28 July 2006See:

• Saint Petersburg Times: {{cite news|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Worldandnation/Hezbollah__al_Qaida_m.shtml|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Saint Petersburg Times|date=25 June 2006|access-date=26 July 2006|title=Hezbollah, al-Qaida mirror tension between Shiites, Sunnis|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909060048/http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Worldandnation/Hezbollah__al_Qaida_m.shtml|archive-date=9 September 2006|ref=none}} (mirror by ABC News: [https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2114525 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2114525] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629103338/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2114525 |date=29 June 2011 }})
• NBC News: {{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11072373|work=NBC News|agency=Associated Press|title=Al-Qaida in Iraq, Hezbollah waging verbal war|date=24 June 2006|access-date=26 July 2006|ref=none}} Nasrallah has denied links to al-Qaeda, present or past, stating in a 2002 interview that the two groups work in different areas and face different enemies. Hezbollah's aim has been to confront, and ultimately destroy, Israel, while bin Laden has focused on Afghanistan, Bosnia, and the former Yugoslavia.

Michel Samaha, Lebanon's former minister of information, has said that Hezbollah has been an important ally of the government in the war against terrorist groups, and described the "American attempt to link Hezbollah to al-Qaeda" to be "astonishing".{{cite magazine | url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17060 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822195222/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17060 | archive-date=22 August 2006 | title=In Search of Hezbollah | Adam Shatz | last1=Shatz | first1=Adam }}

As part of a surge of intersectarian support for Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, called for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Zionists and join the fighting in Lebanon.CNN, 27 July 2006 [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/zawahiri.ap/ Al Qaeda: War with Zionists is 'jihad'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821171843/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/zawahiri.ap/ |date=21 August 2006 }} Accessed 29 July 2006

Hezbollah is also fighting against the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front, later became Tahrir al-Sham Syrian rebel group in the Syrian Civil War on the same side as Assad's pro-government forces.{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/hezbollah-vs-al-qaeda-iran-backed-militia-says-al-nusra-front-has-lost-642838 | title=In the fight between Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda, the Iran-backed militia says it's defeated al-Nusra in Lebanon | website=Newsweek | date=27 July 2017 }}

Hezbollah claims that it forbids its fighters entry into Iraq for any reason, and that no Hezbollah units or individual fighters have entered Iraq to support any Iraqi faction fighting the United States. On 2 April 2004, Iraqi cleric and Mahdi Army founder Muqtada al-Sadr announced his intention to form chapters of Hezbollah and Hamas in Iraq,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/international/middleeast/05SADR.html?8bl |title=THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: UNREST; A Young Radical's Anti-U.S. Wrath Is Unleashed |first=Jeffrey |last=Gettleman |work=The New York Times |date=5 April 2004 |access-date=26 July 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105233624/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/international/middleeast/05SADR.html?8bl |archive-date=5 November 2012 |url-status=dead }} "[Moktada al-Sadr] announced that he was opening Iraqi chapters of Hezbollah and Hamas" and Mahdi senior member Abu Mujtaba claimed they were choosing 1,500 fighters to go to Lebanon.[http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060724-122256-7766r.htm Iraqi Shi'ite militia ready to join fight] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060806120301/http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060724-122256-7766r.htm |date=6 August 2006 }} Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 24 July 2006

There have been American claims that Hezbollah has engaged in joint operations with the Sunni9/11 Commission [http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_gasiorowski.htm Statement of Mark Gasiorowski 9 July 2003] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923224107/http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_gasiorowski.htm |date=23 September 2006 }} Accessed 8 August 2006 Palestinian militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.{{cite web | author=Matthew A. Levitt | work=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin | date=November–December 2002 | url=http://www.meib.org/articles/0211_s1.htm | title=Sponsoring Terrorism: Syria and Islamic Jihad | access-date=10 August 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004001351/http://www.meib.org/articles/0211_s1.htm | archive-date=4 October 2006 | df=dmy-all }} The Islamic Jihad Movement has sent "its gratitude to the brothers in Hezbollah, the Islamic resistance in South Lebanon. Particularly Hassan Nasrallah, for their stance and support, be it financial, military or moral support".{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHpTTvfAIQ|title=Sunni Palestinian Islamic Jihad Thanks Iran and Hezbollah (English Subtitles)|date=13 July 2014|work=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522165149/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKHpTTvfAIQ|archive-date=22 May 2015}}

• {{flagicon image|Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas SSI.svg}} Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/04/syria-islamic-sunni-shia-shrines-volunteers|title=Syrian war widens Sunni-Shia schism as foreign jihadis join fight for shrines|website=The Guardian|date=4 June 2013}}
• {{flagicon image|Emblem of Liwa Al-Quds.svg|border=}} Liwa al-Quds{{cite web|url=http://alwaght.com/en/News/69899/Glance-at-Palestinian-Movement-Liwa-Al-Quds-Supporting-Syrian-President-Assad|title=Glance at Palestinian Movement Liwa Al-Quds Supporting Syrian President Assad|website=alwaght.com|date=6 October 2016|access-date=28 July 2018|archive-date=1 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801182210/http://alwaght.com/en/News/69899/Glance-at-Palestinian-Movement-Liwa-Al-Quds-Supporting-Syrian-President-Assad|url-status=dead}}
• Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada{{cite web|url=https://ctc.usma.edu/hizb-allahs-gambit-in-syria/|title=Hizb Allah's Gambit in Syria|website=Combating Terrorism Center|date=27 August 2013}}
• {{flagicon image}} Kata'ib Hezbollah{{cite web|url=https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/hezbollah/|title=Hezbollah is a Shiite political and militant organization based in Lebanon|website=CISAC}}
• {{flagicon image|}} Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
• {{flagicon image|}} Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba{{cite web|url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/03/hezbollah-and-harakat-al-nujaba-are-the-twins-of-resistance-iraqi-militia-spokesman-says.php|title='Hezbollah and Harakat al Nujaba are the twins of resistance,' Iraqi militia spokesman says|website=longwarjournal.org|date=18 March 2016}}
• {{flagicon image|}} Liwa Fatemiyoun{{cite web|url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/07/lebanese-hezbollah-training-special-afghan-fatemiyoun-forces-for-combat-in-syria.php|title=Lebanese Hezbollah training special Afghan Fatemiyoun forces for combat in Syria|website=longwarjournal.org|date=14 July 2016}}
• Liwq Zulfiqar{{cite web|url=http://raqeb.co/2015/01/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%87%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9|title=إسرائيل هي الجبهة الجديدة في الحرب السورية|website=raqeb.co|language=ar|date=28 January 2015|access-date=29 August 2018|archive-date=19 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319015444/http://raqeb.co/2015/01/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%87%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9|url-status=dead}}
• {{flagdeco|SYR}} Baqir Brigade{{cite web |url=http://trendsinstitution.org/liwa-al-baqir-the-baqir-brigade-in-syria/ |title=Liwa al-Baqir (The Baqir Brigade) in Syria | TRENDS |access-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829175249/http://trendsinstitution.org/liwa-al-baqir-the-baqir-brigade-in-syria/ |archive-date=29 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}
• {{flagicon|SADR}} Polisario Front (Alleged) (Denied by Hezbollah){{cite web|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180529-hezbollah-denies-moroccos-claims-of-its-ties-with-polisario-front/|title=Hezbollah denies Morocco's claims of its ties with Polisario Front|website=The Middle East Monitor|date=29 May 2018}}
• {{flagicon image|ASPRET Symbol.svg}} Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo Reservists{{Cite web |last=Scholem Heller |first=Melissa |date=November 2016 |title=Peru, Abancay & Hezbollah: the Party of God in the City Where the Gods Speak |url=https://www.ict.org.il/UserFiles/ICT-peru-abancay-hezbollah-nov-16.pdf |website=International Institute for Counter-Terrorism}}
• 22px Wagner Group{{cite web | url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1831422/wagner-group-hezbollah-weapons-syria-assad | title=Wagner Group 'tasked to deliver Russian weapons to Hezbollah' – US intelligence | date=4 November 2023 }}

In July 2013, the European Union designated the armed wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The foreign ministers of all 28 EU countries agreed to the decision which was based on concerns over Hezbollah's role in the 2012 Burgas bus bombing and the organizations involvement in Syrian civil war supporting the Ba'ath government.{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/22/european-union-designates-hezbollahs-armed-wing-te/ |title=European Union designates Hezbollah's armed wing as terrorist group |newspaper=The Washington Times |date=22 July 2013 |author=Ashish Kumar Sen |access-date=18 September 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031051642/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/22/european-union-designates-hezbollahs-armed-wing-te/ |archive-date=31 October 2013 }}

A few of the EU member states have imposed partial or complete prohibitions on Hezbollah. The Netherlands proscribed the organisation fully,{{cite web|url=http://www.minbuza.nl/nl/actueel/brievenparlement,2003/12/beantwoording_toezegging_inzake_de_positie_van_hezbollah.html |title=beantwoording_toezegging_inzake_de_positie_van_hezbollah |publisher=The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=11 October 2006 |page=1 |format=website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706211812/http://www.minbuza.nl/nl/actueel/brievenparlement%2C2003/12/beantwoording_toezegging_inzake_de_positie_van_hezbollah.html |archive-date=6 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/world/netherlands/aivd2004-eng.pdf|title=Annual Report 2004|publisher=Netherlands General intelligence and security service|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060723035437/http://www.fas.org/irp/world/netherlands/aivd2004-eng.pdf|archive-date=23 July 2006}} while the United Kingdom has proscribed Hezbollah's paramilitary External Security Organization, but not the organisation's political wing.{{cite web|url=http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/terrorism-and-the-law/terrorism-act/proscribed-groups?version=1 |title=List of proscribed terrorist groups |publisher=United Kingdom Home Office |access-date=2 April 2007 |page=1 |format=website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301141741/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/terrorism-and-the-law/terrorism-act/proscribed-groups?version=1 |archive-date=1 March 2007 }} On 25 February 2019 the UK parliament announced that it would introduce new rules to classify Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organisation as "UK authorities say they are no longer able to distinguish between the group's military and political wings."{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47359502|title=UK to ban Hezbollah as terrorist organisation|date=25 February 2019|access-date=27 February 2019|language=en-GB}} A 2018 [https://janus-initiative.com/about/ research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616125503/https://janus-initiative.com/about/ |date=16 June 2019 }} initiative found strong links between Hezbollah and illegal activity in Germany and this garnered a substantial response from the German public, asking to condemn Hezbollah's political wing as well. Germany banned Hezbollah entirely 30 April 2020.{{cite news|title=Germany bans Lebanese militant group Hezbollah|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/europe/germany-bans-hezbollah-grm-intl/index.html|author=Ivana Kottasová |author2=Frederik Pleitgen |author3=Nadine Schmidt|website=CNN|date=30 April 2020 |access-date=1 May 2020}}

In April 2025 a multinational investigation has uncovered a Hezbollah logistics network operating across Europe, involving Spain, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. This network facilitated the procurement of drone components, enabling the assembly of potentially hundreds of explosive-laden drones. Authorities in Spain and Germany have arrested four individuals linked to this operation, with a suspect in France indicted for terrorist conspiracy. The components seized match those found in drones used by Hezbollah against Israel, highlighting the group's extensive international supply chain. The investigation underscores the challenges European security services face in disrupting such clandestine networks.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-11 |title=Quand le Hezbollah achète en Europe le matériel pour fabriquer ses drones tueurs |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/quand-le-hezbollah-achete-en-europe-le-materiel-pour-fabriquer-ses-drones-tueurs-20250411 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}{{Cite web |date=2025-04-12 |title=Hezbollah logistics support network dismantled in Europe, according to Le Figaro |url=https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1455817/hezbollah-logistics-support-network-dismantled-in-europe-according-to-le-figaro.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=L'Orient Today |language=en}}

Citing Swiss neutrality, Switzerland does not regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Its government only uses the Sanctions List provided by the United Nations.{{cite news | url=https://www.jpost.com/International/Switzerland-nominates-Hezbollah-advocate-for-UN-Human-Rights-Council-322971 | title=Switzerland nominates Hezbollah advocate for UN Human Rights Council | date=14 August 2013 | newspaper=The Jerusalem Post | first=Benjamin | last=Weinthal | access-date=9 March 2019 }}

In December 2024, the Swiss Federal Assembly voted to ban Hezbollah.{{Cite web |date=2024-12-17 |title=Swiss parliament votes to ban Hezbollah |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-parliament-votes-ban-hezbollah-2024-12-17/ |url-status=live |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Reuters}} Swiss government opposed the move and the motion to ban is still to be implemented by the government.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-12-17 |title=Parliament votes to ban Shia militia Hezbollah in Switzerland |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/parliament-wants-to-ban-shia-militia-hezbollah-in-switzerland/88603506 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Swissinfo.ch |language=en}}

In a televised interview in June 2024, Nasrallah threatened to attack Cyprus if it allowed Israeli military access to Cypriot airports and bases.{{Cite news |last=Beaumont |first=Peter |date=2024-06-19 |title=Hezbollah leader: Cyprus will be target if it lets Israel use its territory in conflict |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/hezbollah-leader-cyprus-will-be-target-if-it-lets-israel-use-its-territory-in-conflict |access-date=2024-06-19 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

Dan Gillerman, the Israeli representative at UN, referred to Hezbollah as a "cancerous growth" that must be removed.{{cite web|url=http://www.studentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/20/lt.02.html|title=Transcripts|work=CNN.com|access-date=17 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123120515/http://www.studentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/20/lt.02.html|archive-date=23 November 2018|url-status=dead}}

The Israeli Government considers the use of military force in Lebanon as a legitimate means of isolating Hezbollah.[http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=429 Norman Finkelste] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225145/http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=429 |date=26 September 2007 }} Reuters, 2 August 2006 "Reuters interview with Israeli PM Olmert", by Matthew Tostevin, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "All the population which is the power base of the Hezbollah in Lebanon was displaced. They lost their properties, they lost their possessions, they are bitter, they are angry at Hezbollah and the power structure of Lebanon itself has been divided and Hezbollah is now entirely isolated in Lebanon"

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Hezbollah has been accused of training Iraqi insurgents to attack U.S. troops during the Iraq War.[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30860190 "Hezbollah's growing regional role worries Arabs."] NBC News. 21 May 2009. 21 May 2009.

The British government has claimed that the Provisional Irish Republican Army had relations with Hezbollah and that the IRA provided the group with technology that was used against British forces in Iraq.{{cite web|url=https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/IRA-PLO-cooperation-A-long-cozy-relationship/amp|title=IRA-PLO cooperation: A long, cozy relationship|website=The Jerusalem Post|date=4 July 2009}}

Morocco cut ties with Iran for supporting and giving aid to the Polisario Front through Hezbollah, via the Iranian embassy in Algeria.{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/morocco-cuts-diplomatic-ties-iran-western-sahara-feud-180501173229190.html |title=Morocco cuts diplomatic ties with Iran over Western Sahara feud |access-date=4 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504114454/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/morocco-cuts-diplomatic-ties-iran-western-sahara-feud-180501173229190.html |archive-date=4 May 2018 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/morocco-cuts-ties-with-iran-over-sahara-weapons-dispute |title=Morocco cuts ties with Iran over Sahara weapons dispute |website=Fox News |date=May 2018 |access-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504090053/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/01/morocco-cuts-ties-with-iran-over-sahara-weapons-dispute.html |archive-date=4 May 2018 }}{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/3aebb7da756940c99434b420a45aa84b |title=Morocco cuts ties with Iran over Sahara weapons dispute |website=Associated Press |date=May 2018 |access-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504090537/https://apnews.com/3aebb7da756940c99434b420a45aa84b |archive-date=4 May 2018 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-iran/morocco-severs-ties-with-iran-over-support-for-west-sahara-polisario-front-official-idUSKBN1I23VF |title=Morocco severs ties with Iran, accusing it of backing Polisario Front |newspaper=Reuters |date=May 2018 |access-date=3 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503051642/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-iran/morocco-severs-ties-with-iran-over-support-for-west-sahara-polisario-front-official-idUSKBN1I23VF |archive-date=3 May 2018 }}

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro considered designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, following Argentina and Paraguay as part of the Triple Frontier.{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-20/brazil-s-bolsonaro-says-he-plans-to-label-hezbollah-terrorists|title=Brazil's Bolsonaro Says He Plans to Label Hezbollah Terrorists|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=20 August 2019}} In the region, members of the Hezbollah's Barakat clan maintain commercial relations with the criminal syndicate Primeiro Comando da Capital.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ft.com/content/20fb5c77-baf1-45ab-a886-51cac68cfd4e/ |title=Financial Times: How Brazil's largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire |access-date=2023-05-03 |archive-date=2023-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508053348/https://www.ft.com/content/20fb5c77-baf1-45ab-a886-51cac68cfd4e |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/brasil/2017/07/23/interna-brasil,611759/pcc-brasileiro-tem-parceria-com-o-hezbollah.shtml |title=Correio Braziliense: the PCC signs commercial partnership with Hezbollah, expands financial power |date=23 July 2017 |access-date=2023-05-03 |archive-date=2022-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804194139/https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/brasil/2017/07/23/interna-brasil,611759/pcc-brasileiro-tem-parceria-com-o-hezbollah.shtml |url-status=live }}

The United States has accused members of the Venezuelan government of providing financial aid to Hezbollah.{{cite web |title=Treasury Targets Hizballah in Venezuela |url=http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/pages/hp1036.aspx |access-date=5 March 2014 |work=Press Release |publisher=United States Department of Treasury}}{{cite web | url=https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/key-revelations-venezuela-intelligence-chief-maduro/ | title=Key Criminal Revelations from Former Venezuela Intelligence Chief | date=25 February 2019 }}

The United States has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation and sanctioned it. In December 2019, the US Treasury sanctioned individuals it claimed were Hezbollah financiers,{{cite web|url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm856|title=Treasury Designates Prominent Lebanon and DRC-Based Hizballah Money Launderers|website=U.S. Department of the Treasury|date=13 December 2019}} and again, in May 2022, it announced sanctions on Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah, a Lebanese businessman and the Iranian-backed group's financial facilitator, as well as his companies.{{cite news |title=U.S. sanctions Lebanese businessman, his companies over Hezbollah links |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us-sanctions-lebanese-businessman-his-companies-over-hezbollah-links-2022-05-19/ |access-date=22 May 2022 |work=Reuters |agency=Reuters |date=19 May 2022}}

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On 11 March 2016, the Arab League designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization during a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers at the organization's headquarters in Egypt's capital Cairo. Nearly all 22 Arab League members supported the decision, except Lebanon, Syria, Algeria and Iraq which expressed "reservations" about the decision.{{cite web|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/algeria-risks-isolation-arab-league-over-hezbollah-stance-1870366475|title=Algeria's Hezbollah stance 'reflects view on resistance, not terrorism'|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910102038/http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/algeria-risks-isolation-arab-league-over-hezbollah-stance-1870366475|archive-date=10 September 2017}} In June 2024, the Arab League's Deputy Secretary General Gossam Zaki announced they have ceased referring to Hezbollah as a 'terrorist organization'.{{Cite web |date=June 29, 2024 |title=Arab League ceases labeling Hezbollah ‘terrorist organization’ |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240629-arab-league-ceases-labeling-hezbollah-terrorist-organization/}} He later added that his words were "interpreted out of context",{{Cite news |date=2 July 2024 |title=Arab League denies softening stance on Hezbollah terror label |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/arab-league-denies-softening-stance-hezbollah-terror-label?amp |access-date=2 July 2024 |work=The New Arab}}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-02 |title=Arab League denies softening stance on Hezbollah terror label - analysis |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-808600 |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}} while noting that the league "does not resort to labeling entities as terrorist organizations and does not adopt such lists."[https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1419032/the-arab-league-clarifies-its-stance-on-hezbollah.html The Arab League clarifies its stance on Hezbollah]

The following entities have listed the entire organization Hezbollah as a terror group:

The following entities have listed only certain parts of Hezbollah as a terror group:

The following entities that do not consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization:

• Ideology of Hezbollah
• Hezbollah political activities
• Hezbollah military activities

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