Beirut | Hezbollah announced on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) that it has chosen cleric Naim Qassem to lead the Lebanese militant group after the killing of its longtime leader in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb in late September.
The group said in a statement that Hezbollah’s decision-making council elected Qassem, 71, as its new secretary-general and vowed to continue slain leader Hassan Nasrallah’s policies “until victory is achieved”.
