While Israel succeeded in taking out the Lebanese movement’s former leader, Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, the latter’s tenure was short-lived, having been appointed as secretary general of ...

He was elected secretary-general of Hezbollah in 1992, aged just 32, after an Israeli helicopter gunship killed his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi. Hezbollah is the only group that refused to give ...

Initially appointed as Nasrallah’s deputy by Abbas al-Musawi in 1991, Qassem has been central to Hezbollah’s ideological and ...

That date was chosen to mark the killing of Sheikh Ragheb Harb, one of Hezbollah’s founders, and Abbas al Musawi, the group’s second secretary-general. The day has also come to commemorate all of ...