BEIRUT — A senior Hezbollah commander was gunned down outside his home, the Lebanese Shiite group reported Wednesday, marking a further escalation in a shadowy series of attacks and bombings ...

Laqees was the highest level figure killed since the February 2008 car bombing that killed senior commander Imad Mughniyeh in the Syrian capital of Damascus. "We haven't seen a killing of a Hezbollah ...

The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan al-Laqees on Tuesday night is believed to be a sign of growing tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Lebanon over the ongoing Syrian civil war. Via ...

Hezbollah accuses Israel for the killing, noting that the self-proclaimed Jewish state had made several previous unsuccessful attempts to kill al-Laqees. - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan al-Laqees on Tuesday night is believed to be a sign of growing tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Lebanon over the ongoing Syrian civil war. Via ...

Outside a school in Ibl al-Saqi, a town in the Marjayoun district in southern Lebanon, three youth voted for oppositional candidates. Elias Assi, Roy Bshara and Tareq Laqees grew up in the same ...