BRITAL, Lebanon—Hezbollah has expanded its regional clout by recruiting thousands of young men from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley to fight in Syria. But the war next door is producing a tide of discontent at home for the Lebanese militia and political group ahead of elections on Sunday.
Critics point to Hezbollah’s failures to produce much-needed economic progress in its Shiite heartland and complain about the dominant influence Iran wields through it in Lebanon.
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