Hezbollah originated in 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon. Iran had sent a contingent of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps there to fight the Israeli army, but it instead headed to the city of Baalbek, where it formally announced Hezbollah’s establishment in 1985. Following Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Abbas Musawi in 1992, the party’s Consultative […]
How Hezbollah Controlled Lebanese Shiites
The group is facing an existential dilemma.
