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Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

FILE - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center, escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 17, 2012. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) FILE - People look at a replica drone in a war museum operated by Hezbollah in Mlita Village, southern Lebanon, Feb. 19, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File) FILE - Thousands of Muslim mourners crowd as the coffins of 64 Hezbollah guerrillas are carried to a cemetery in a suburb of Beirut, July 23, 1996. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Ali Mohamed, File) FILE - Members of the Hezbollah guerrilla group carry Hezbollah flags as they parade during the annual rally to mark Al-Quds Day, Jerusalem Day, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 28, 2005. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) FILE - Two fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah stand near Katyusha rockets in the southern village of Ein Qana, Lebanon, April 1996. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File) FILE - Waving their flags, Hezbollah guerrillas sit on a top of an Israeli allied South Lebanon Army tank while touring in the streets near the village of Kfar Kila, May 24, 2000. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mohamed Zatari, File) FILE - Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, left, talks with Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, during an official ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, May 25, 2001. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil, File) FILE - Shiite Muslim Sheikhs address supporters of Hezbollah, or party of God, in a demonstration outside the bombed U.S. Embassy in West Beirut, Lebanon, April 16, 1986. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Two Lebanese Shiite women, right, look at war booty captured by Hezbollah from Israeli troops and and their Lebanese militia allies, during the inauguration of a Hezbollah war museum, in Mlita Village, southern Lebanon, May 21, 2010. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: "40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad's grand son)," during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies