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Hezbollah  

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  • Hezbollah (lit. “Party of God”), is a Shi'a Islamist group that emerged in Lebanon in 1982 and gained the status of a cohesive organization when it formally stated its goals in 1985. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Hezbollah]

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