Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The group’s Senior Council elected Qassem as ...

Hezbollah’s new secretary-general is Naim Qassem, the longtime number two to the late Hassan Nasrallah who was assassinated by Israel on September 27. Hezbollah announced the appointment on ...

Considered by many in Lebanon to be the voice of Hezbollah, Qassem was elected as the party’s deputy secretary general on May 22, 1991. He served under Secretary General Abbas al-Mousaoui until ...

Iran used a newly developed ballistic missile in its latest barrage of airstrikes against Israel Saturday that is named after General Qassem Soleimani who was killed on orders from President Trump … ...

Hezbollah said Naim Qassem — the former deputy of Hasan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel last month — would helm the militant and political group.

Mr. Qassem was born in 1953 in Beirut and has been involved with Hezbollah since its formation, with Iran’s support, in the early 1980s. In 1991, under a previous secretary general, ...

Iran-backed Hezbollah wants to avoid a regional war but will respond in kind to any Israeli escalation, Naim Qassem told NBC News in an exclusive interview.

Following a series of targeted Israeli assassinations that eliminated its prominent leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah, Hashem Safieddine, and Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah appointed Naim Qassem as its ...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has said the group “will not allow anyone to disarm” it and that no dialogue over a broader defence strategy in Lebanon will take place until Israel withdraws from ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said that the resistance movement will now allow anyone to go ahead with their disarmament conspiracy, warning that the plot only ...

Hezbollah has named Shiite cleric Naim Qassem as leader, over a month after his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The group’s Senior Council elected Qassem as ...