Talal Husni Hamiyah

Talal Hamiyah (; born between 1952 and 1960) is a Lebanese militant leader. A senior military commander in Hezbollah since its founding in the early 1980s. He heads Hezbollah's External Security Organization (ESO), also known as Unit 910, which is responsible for planning and executing terrorist activities outside Lebanon. He is associated with terror attacks such as the 1994 AMIA bombing and 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. In 2017, the U.S. added Hamiyah to its Rewards for Justice Program, offering $7 million for information leading to his arrest. Since 2008 he is a senior member of the Jihad Council, and the leader of Unit 121 since 2016.

Biography Talal Hussein Hamiyah was born between 1952 and 1960 in Brital in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in the Bekka Valley. He joined Hezbollah in the early 1980s, shortly after the arrival of Iranian trainers to the region. After the assassination of Abbas al-Musawi, Hamiyah became a close associate of Imad Mughniyeh. He became known to intelligence officials after he was caught on an intercepted communication celebrating the AMIA bombing, in which 85 people were killed, in Argentina. For many years he was Mugniyeh's deputy, directing the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, in which 19 U.S. soldiers were killed, and attacks against the IDF during the Second Lebanon War.

He is a veteran figure in Hezbollah's foreign military operations, working alongside Hezbollah military commanders Mustafa Badreddine and Imad Mughniyeh and IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaee. Following Mughniyeh's death in 2008, Hamiyah replaced him as Hezbollah's Chief of Staff, and he joined the Jihad Council alongside his responsibilities leading Hezbollah's foreign operations arm the External Security Organization (Unit 910). The basis for their designation was E.O. 13224 for providing support to Hezbollah's terrorist activities in the Middle East and around the world.

The U.S. State Department added him to its Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ) on October 10, 2017, offering $7 million for information leading to his arrest. Hamiyah was added to the RFJ program alongside Hezbollah senior military commander Fuad Shukr as part of the first rewards for Hezbollah figures in a decade.