Hezbollah

Hezbollah appears in roughly 114 monitored articles per day as of August 19, 2026. Mentions are up 89.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -3.36 — negative.

Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing whose military and security activities have been prohibited by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebanon. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016.

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Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
114
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+89.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-3.36
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Hezbollah mentions per day: 88 days, latest 114.00 on 2026-08-190.005001000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 8Jul 23Aug 7Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Hezbollah coverage tone: 88 days, latest tone -3.36 on 2026-08-19+100-10May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 8Jul 23Aug 7Aug 19

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Hezbollah: 89 days, latest 2100.00 on 2026-08-180.001000020000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).