Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim resorted to verbal escalation days before U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s return to Beirut in order to “obtain needed guarantees to reassure his popular base about Hezbollah’s ...

He notes that Israel is also negotiating under fire. “When the enemy does not achieve its goals, it means we have won,” he asserts. Addressing Lebanon’s political stalemate, Qassem says the ...

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassem, elected head of the Lebanese armed group on Tuesday, has been a senior figure in the Iran-backed movement for more than 30 years.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has said that his group senses the presence of an “existential threat,” citing Israel’s ...

Hezbollah’s leader has said again his group will not bow to pressures to disarm, while revealing some details about September’s pager blasts ...

Demonstrating this victory, claimed Qassem, was Israel’s eagerness to sign a ceasefire agreement despite Hezbollah altering its terms. “[US envoy Amos] Hochstein brought a ceasefire agreement agreed ...

The group transformed into the Amal movement, one of the main armed groups in Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war and now a powerful political party led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. Qassem then ...

For now, however, Hezbollah seems to have settled on Nasrallah’s deputy, the soft-spoken philosopher-idealogue Naim Qassem. An intellectual, Qassem lacks any of the charisma or presence around which ...

Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said Tuesday the militant group supported Lebanese efforts for a ceasefire with Israel, after two weeks of heavy Israeli strikes that killed its leader."We support ...

Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem said in comments broadcast on Tuesday that his movement supports efforts to reach a ceasefire for Lebanon, but for the first time omitted any mention of a Gaza ...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a televised speech aired on Wednesday that his group had reviewed and given feedback on a U.S.-drafted ceasefire proposal to end fighting with Israel, and that ...

Mr. Qassem was born in 1953 in Beirut and has been involved with Hezbollah since its formation, with Iran’s support, in the early 1980s. In 1991, under a previous secretary general, ...