BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem says the Syrian people have the right to choose their government and constitution. Qassem said in a televised speech that “the regime in Syria has fallen at the hands of new forces that we cannot judge until they stabilize, take clear positions, and establish order.” “We h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah is expected to be announced within two days, according to Israeli media. The public broadcaster KAN, citing an Israeli source, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been consistently obstructing a cease-fire with Hamas, has in this...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem has vowed to force Israel to halt its air and ground attacks on Lebanon. “There is no place within Israel that is off-limits to missiles and drones launched from Lebanon,” Qassem said in a recorded speech. He emphasized that the basis for any cease-fire negotiations “is the complete [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The new chief of Hezbollah has said that his group is not fighting on behalf of Iran, but to protect and liberate Lebanese territory. “We in Lebanon are not fighting on behalf of Iran or to implement its project, but to protect and liberate our land,” Naim Qassem said in a recorded […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that it has elected Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem as its new leader. “Hezbollah’s Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary-general of the group,” it said in a statement. Qassem, 71, succeeds Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed i...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem has said that a Gaza cease-fire is the key to ending the current crisis. “We have the right to target any point in Israel after its violations in Lebanon,” Qassem said in a televised speech. “Rocket fire will continue.” “The solution is a cease-fire based on an […]...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem has said that the group will elect a new leader “as soon as possible.” “We will choose a secretary-general as soon as possible according to the party’s structure,” Qassem said in a televised speech. “The choices will be easy,” he added. Hezbollah Secretary-General H...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah’s second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace “hundreds of thousands” more. Naim Qassem, number two in the Lebanese group, was speaking after Defence Minister ...
