One of the most powerful forces in the Middle East - set up to oppose Israel and designated a terrorist group by the US and EU. But over the last year, Lebanon's Shi-ite Hezbollah militia - heavily backed by Iran - has begun to change the military balance in the SYRIAN civil war in favour of the Assad regime.
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