Amal

…south from Beirut, Nasrallah joined Amal, a Lebanese Shiʿi paramilitary group with ties to Iran and Syria. Soon afterward he left for Najaf, Iraq, to study at the Shiʿi seminary there. Following the expulsion of hundreds of Lebanese students from Iraq in 1978, he returned to Lebanon and fought with…

…and in 1975 he formed Amal, an armed wing of his Ḥarakat al-Maḥrūmīn (“Movement of the Deprived”), a Shiʿi social reform movement, in order to defend the Shiʿi community in the Lebanese Civil War. He and a small entourage disappeared while on an official trip in Libya. The Libyan government…