The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts (Arabic: كشافة الإمام المهدي) are a youth movement of the Hezbollah in Lebanon, named for Muhammad al-Mahdi and established on May 5, 1985.
The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts became a member of the Lebanese Scouting Federation and thus of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1998. The organization has about 42,000 members of both sexes between the ages of 8-16 organized into 500 local groups.
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