In 2005, it became a legal party, and in the 2010s it developed close connections with Liwa Fatemiyoun, an Afghan paramilitary force organized by Iran.

One of these, the "Hezb'ollahi", was characterized by the Time as a far-right religious fundamentalist movement that gave Ruhollah Khomeini "unquestioning obedience".

[9] This Afghan Hezbollah was led by Qari Ahmad Ali, a cleric who hoped to become the "spiritual leader of the Shiites of Afghanistan".

Its armed wing reportedly fielded 4,000 militants who fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) in the provinces of Herat, Farah, Nimruz, Ghor, Bamyan, Uruzgan, and Kandahar.

[4] According to researcher Phillip Smyth, Hezbollah Afghanistan "incorporated" with Liwa Fatemiyoun, an Afghan Shia paramilitary group fielded by Iran, at some point before 2014.