Editing Hezbollah (section)

===United States operations===
Ali Kourani, the first Hezbollah operative to be convicted and sentenced in the United States, was under investigation since 2013 and worked to provide targeting and terrorist recruiting information to Hezbollah's [[Islamic Jihad Organization]].<ref>Al Arabiya News. (4 December 2019. Updated 20 May 2020). "Hezbollah operative in US sentenced to 40 years in spying case shows no remorse". [https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2019/12/04/Hezbollah-operative-in-US-sentenced-to-40-years-in-spying-case-shows-no-remorse Al Arabiya English website] Retrieved 23 June 2021.</ref> The organization had recruited a former resident of Minnesota and a military linguist, Mariam Tala Thompson, who disclosed "identities of at least eight clandestine human assets; at least 10 U.S. targets; and multiple tactics, techniques and procedures" before she was discovered and successfully prosecuted in a U.S. court.<ref>{{cite news |first=Spencer C. |last=Hsu |date=23 June 2021 |title=Pentagon linguist sentenced to 23 years for exposing U.S. sources in Iraq to Hezbollah in rare terrorism espionage case |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/pentagon-linguist-sentenced-espionage/2021/06/23/71805bb0-d436-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=24 June 2021 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>