• November 7, 2014: The United Arab Emirates proscribed Hezbollah al-Hejaz and Hezbollah in its entirety.
• March 2, 2016: The Gulf Cooperation Council designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
• March 11, 2016: The Arab League designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

The United Arab Emirates proscribed Hezbollah al-Hejaz and Hezbollah in the Gulf Cooperation Council in its entirety on November 7, 2014, pursuant to the passage of Abu Dhabi’s Federal Law No 7 for 2014 on combating terrorist crimes. Presumably, Hezbollah’s military involvement in the Syrian Civil War, threats against fellow Gulf States, and terrorist activities within the Gulf led to the designation. The Emirates would go on to ban Lebanese Hezbollah in its entirety on March 2, 2016, pursuant to a decision adopted by the Gulf Cooperation Council.

On March 2, 2016, the Gulf Cooperation Council – consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates – designated Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization. In 2013, the GCC had already sanctioned the group’s members for their intervention in Syria’s Civil War in support of Bashar al-Assad. The GCC decision, led by Saudi Arabia, came one day after a speech by Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claiming that Riyadh had pushed Lebanon into a new phase of political conflict by suspending aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces, and accusing the Kingdom of directing car-bombings in Lebanon.

The GCC Secretary-General, Abdullatif al-Zayani, in a statement issued in Riyadh, said that the GCC had now taken a collective decision on the group. "As the militia continues its terrorist practices, the GCC states have decided to label it a terrorist organization and will take the necessary measures to implement its decision in this regard based on anti-terrorism laws applied in the GCC and similar international laws," he said. Zayani accused Hezbollah of committing hostile acts against GCC states, including recruiting young men to carry out "terrorist attacks, smuggling weapons and explosives, stirring up sedition and incitement to chaos and violence."

On March 11, 2016, the Arab League formally labeled Hezbollah, in its entirety, as a terrorist group. The vote was not unanimous, as Lebanon and Iraq voted against the decision. Algeria and Tunisia also didn’t join the decision. Syria, which had been suspended from the Arab League in 2011, was also not part of the decision. The League’s decision was led by Saudi Arabia, whose stance towards Hezbollah had become much more hawkish as a result of the group’s involvement in the Syrian Civil War, and direct tensions between the Kingdom and the Shiite organization and its patron Iran.