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Hezbollah
Question: What is the best English translation for the name Hezbollah?
Answer: The phrase comes from the Quran (5:56).
Question: Which confessional community in Lebanon is Hezbollah most closely associated with?
Answer: Most of Hezbollah’s support comes from Shiite Muslims, who were marginalized by Lebanon’s confessional system of political representation for most of the country’s history.
Question: Ture or False: Hezbollah was the only militia not to disarm after the Lebanese civil war.
Answer: Hezbollah argued that it must retain its weapons to defend Lebanon against attacks by Israel.
Question: Who was Imad Mughniyeh?
Answer: Mughniyeh, who was responsible for many of Hezbollah’s deadliest attacks, was assassinated in Damascus in 2008.
Question: Hezbollah was formed in the 1980s with support from which foreign country?
Answer: In the early 1980s a force of more than 1,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards deployed to Lebanon, where they funded and equipped Shiite forces that eventually converged under the name Hezbollah.
Question: True or False: In 2000 Hezbollah entered a Lebanese national election for the first time.
Answer: Hezbollah first entered a national election in 1992, winning eight seats in parliament. Since then it has operated as both a conventional political party and an armed resistance group.
Question: True or False: Hezbollah’s 1985 manifesto called for the destruction of Israel.
Answer: The manifesto also called the United States and the Soviet Union the main enemies of Islam worldwide.
Question: True or False: In the Syrian Civil War, Hezbollah sided with the rebels against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Answer: Hezbollah is closely aligned with the Assad regime. After the civil war began, it deployed soldiers to Syria to fight against the rebels.
Question: As of 2016, who is the secretary-general of Hezbollah?
Answer: Nasrallah has led Hezbollah since 1992, when his predecessor Abbas al-Musawi was killed in an Israeli air strike.
Question: What country’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was a key reason for the formation of Hezbollah?
Answer: Hezbollah’s guerrilla attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon played a part in causing Israel to withdraw from the country in 2000.
Question: Which of the following attacks has not been linked to Hezbollah?
Answer: Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombing of the USS Cole.
Question: What is the name of the Arabic-language satellite television station operated by Hezbollah?
Answer: Al-Manar began broadcasting in 1991 and was first transmitted by satellite in 2000.
Question: What are the colors of the Hezbollah flag?
Answer: The images on the flag are Hezbollah’s name written in Arabic script and an outstretched arm holding a rifle.