Hezbollah picks longtime Nasrallah deputy as new leader

Sheikh Naim Kassem is one of Hezbollah's founding members but is widely seen by supporters as lacking his predecessor’s oratory skills

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month, the terror group said Tuesday.

The group said in a statement that Hezbollah’s decision-making Shura Council elected Kassem, 71, as its new secretary-general and vowed to continue “until victory is achieved.”