Hezbollah leader Nasrallah killed by Israel in major escalation – POLITICO

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed on Friday in a series of blasts that destroyed an underground command center in southern Beirut, Israel and Hezbollah said on Saturday.

"The Israel Defense Forces confirm that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated yesterday," the Israeli government said in a statement posted online. Hezbollah confirmed his death.

Nasrallah was one of the most prominent figures in the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance." The Lebanese cleric had headed the militant group since 1992, after his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike.