Hezbollah foreign relations fashion of bin Laden, we do not endorse them. And many of the operations that they have carried out, we condemned them very clearly." Michel Samaha, Lebanon's former minister of information, has said that Hezbollah has been an important ally of the government in the war against terrorist groups, and described the "American attempt to link Hezbollah to al-Qaeda" to be "astonishing". As part of a surge of intersectarian support for Hezbollah during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, called for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Zionists and join the fighting in Lebanon.
Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War Syrian Civil War in favour of the Government. After the organization role in Qusayr, Homs and Aleppo the armed wing of the Lebanese Party gained political and military experience fighting in urban environments, and enlarged his alliance with Syria and Iran. Hezbollah role have become critical in defeating Syrian rebels in behalf of the Syrian government and have grown as a stronger in the region. Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War has been substantial since the beginning of armed insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War, and turned into active support and