How Hizballah Went from a Lebanese Militia to a Regional Power
The managing partner for Iran’s network of proxy armies.
August 25, 2021
How Hizballah Went from a Lebanese Militia to a Regional Power
The managing partner for Iran’s network of proxy armies.
Founded as an Iran-backed Shiite political party-cum-terrorist organization in Lebanon in the early 1980s, Hizballah made its name with its devastating attack on U.S. Marines in Beirut. It then fought a fifteen-year guerrilla war against Israel, which eventually succeeded in driving the IDF from southern Lebanon, while at the same time carrying out deadly terrorist attacks on Jews wherever they could be found. Since 2006, it has also become, in Matthew Levitt’s words, the “managing partner for Iran’s network of militant proxies” throughout the Middle East. Levitt explains this transition, and provides an in-depth history of the group that now has one of the world’s largest missile arsenals pointed at Israel:
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