By Evgenia Filimianova A U.S.-owned crude oil tanker came under attack near Iraq’s southern coast on March 11, killing one crew member, the Indian embassy in Baghdad said on March 12. Regional government bodies and maritime security centers also reported March 11 strikes on multiple commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of […]
Tag: Hezbollah
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah’s paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multibillion-dollar money-laundering and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that cleans organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through multiple waypoints in the Western hemisphere. They are a well funded terrorist organization.
