Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — After a week that included a suspected Israeli assassination in Beirut and a U.S. airstrike in central Baghdad — sparking fears of a wider regional war — many had been apprehensive about Hasan Nasrallah’s speech on Friday. But the leader of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese … Read more
In an incendiary speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, while falling short of announcing a full-scale war against Israel. In the run-up to the speech, many in Lebanon and neighboring Israel feared that Nasrallah, one of the most key figures in the network of … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — The leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah warned Friday that all options were “on the table” in his group’s battles with Israel but stopped short of announcing an all-out escalation in his first public comments since the start of the Gaza war. The speech … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Hasan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group with widespread political influence in Lebanon, gave his first address Friday since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. If Hezbollah were to escalate attacks along Israel’s northern border in response to Israel’s military offensive in the … Read more