Lebanon's Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday it elected its deputy secretary general Naim Qassem to succeed head Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in a targeted Israeli strike in south Beirut last month.
"Hezbollah's (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect... Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general of Hezbollah," the Lebanese group said in a statement, more than a month after Nasrallah's killing.