Qassem helped found Hezbollah in the 1980s and was first made its deputy leader in 1991 under Abbas al-Musawi. He did not take over as leader when al-Musawi was killed in 1992, and remained deputy ...

He rose to prominence within Hezbollah following Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and became its leader in 1992 after the assassination of his mentor, Abbas Musawi. Under Nasrallah’s ...

Nasrallah became Hezbollah's leader in 1992 after the assassination of his predecessor, Sayyed Abbas Musawi. Hezbollah was established by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who came to ...

Two days after its leader, 39-year-old Sayyed Abbas Musawi, was killed in an Israeli helicopter gunship raid in south Lebanon, Hezbollah chose Nasrallah as its secretary-general in February 1992.