Selama perang melawan terorisme, kebanyakan difokuskan pada jaringan Al-Qaeda yang telah mengakibatkan peristiwa 11 September 2001, serangan terorris, tetapi semakin menguatnya Hizbullah di Lebanon mendatangkan perhatian yang lebih mengenai kelompok Syiah.
During the war on terrorism, most of the focus has been on the Sunni oriented al-Qaeda network that carried out the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks, but Hezbollah's stronghold on Lebanon has prompted greater concerns about Shiite terrorism.