Hassan Nasrallah (Arabic: حسن نصر الله, romanized: Ḥasan Naṣr-Allāh, pronounced [ˈħasan nasˤraˈɫːaːh]; 31 August 1960 – 27 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024.. Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut in ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Hassan Nasrallah (born August 31, 1960, Beirut, Lebanon—died September 27, 2024, Dahieh) was a Lebanese militia and political leader who served as leader (secretary-general) of Hezbollah (Arabic: “Party of God”) from 1992. Under his leadership, Hezbollah grew beyond its civil war roots as a militia and built up an elaborate network of social welfare programs as well as a political program.

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who transformed the Lebanese militant group into a potent paramilitary and political force in the Middle East, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the group said. He was 64. Nasrallah, who spearheaded Hezbollah’s war against Israel in 2006 and got the group heavily involved in neighboring …

22 hours ago · The funeral of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will be held on February 23, the group has said, months after he was killed in an Israeli air attack in Lebanon’s capital.. Nasrallah ...

Sep 29, 2024 · BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founding members, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a southern suburb of Beirut. The killing of the powerful militant group’s longtime leader sent shockwaves throughout Lebanon and the Middle East, where he has been a dominant political and military figure for more than ...

1 day ago · Nasrallah was killed on Sept. 27 after a series of Israeli airstrikes struck several buildings in a southern Beirut suburb. A top security aide said Nasrallah was inside the militant group’s war operations room when the strikes took place. Israeli troops are still present in parts of southern Lebanon, where under the ceasefire agreement they ...

Sep 27, 2024 · Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israel in air strikes on Beirut, was praised for driving the Israeli army out of Lebanon but criticised for threatening Lebanese sovereignty with close links to Syria ...

Sep 28, 2024 · Nasrallah, pictured on March 11, 1999, addresses guerrillas battling Israeli forces in Lebanon's occupied south. Hezbollah was formed more than a decade earlier, by Lebanese fighters resisting ...

Sep 28, 2024 · Hezbollah (Party of God in Arabic) is an Iran-backed group formed in 1982 to fight Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon. It finds most of its support among Shia Muslims. Nasrallah reached the ...

Sep 29, 2024 · After Lebanon's civil war came to an end in 1990, Nasrallah gradually turned the organization into a "state within a state," according to the AFP, with an elaborate social welfare network that ...