Category
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Islamic State
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
Hezbollah
Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary group wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016.
Fatah al-Islam
Palestinian militant group
1983 United States embassy bombing
1983 suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon
1981 Iraqi embassy bombing
1981 Islamist terror attack in Beirut, Lebanon
Ahmed al-Assir
Ex-Leader of a Terrorist Sunni Muslim Militia known as "Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir Group", which attacked the Lebanese Army in 2013 in Saida