War and Death

Top Hezbollah Commander Killed in Israeli Airstrike

“Great jihadi leader” Mustafa Badreddine is no more.

Hezbollah has announced that its top commander, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed this week when an Israeli airstrike hit the Lebanese-Israeli border. A statement released by the group described Badreddine as a “great jihadi leader” and noted that he’d been part of the “Islamic resistance” since 1982. He was killed Tuesday night. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, and Badreddine himself was under sanctions by the U.S. for his role supporting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. He was also indicted by the United Nations’ Special Tribunal for Lebanon for killing a Lebanese official in 2005.