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Slovenia designates Hezbollah as terrorist organization

Slovenia has followed other European states in designating Hezbollah as a terror group, including both its political and its military wings.
Members of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah take part in a Martyr's Day parade in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on November 11, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Slovenia has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

The Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs now considers the Lebanese military and political organization in its entirety a “criminal and terrorist organization posing a global threat to peace and security,” the US State Department said in a Friday press release. The United States praised the Balkan state for making the designation.

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