Hezbollah (disambiguation)
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"Hezbollah" means "party of God" in Arabic. Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militia which played a major role in forcing Israel out of Lebanon.
A variety of other Islamist organizations that use the name includes:
- Kurdish Hizbollah, a Kurdish Sunni Islamist separatist group in Turkey.
- Kata'ib Hezbollah (also known as the Hezbollah Brigades), a Shi'a Islamist insurgent group in Iraq.
- Hezbollah Movement in Iraq, a Shi'a Islamist political party in Iraq aligned with the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq.
- Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah, a Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group led by Adham Barzani (cousin of Massoud Barzani) that was founded in 1983 and disbanded in 2004.
- Hezbollah of Iran, a movement of mosque-based groups founded to enforce the authority of the Islamic revolution in Iran
- Ansar-e Hezbollah, an offshoot of Iranian Hezbollah
- Hezbollah Al-Hejaz, a Shi'a militant organization operating in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait and Bahrain
- Mauritian Solidarity Front, a Muslim political party in Mauritius formerly known as Hizbullah
- Hizbullah, a militant Indonesian youth organisation (with local cadres), founded by the Japanese in December 1944 to reinforce the Pembela Tanah Air.
See also
- "Hizbollah" is also a track on Ministry's 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey
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