"This threat will not make us accept surrender," Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his supporters in the ...

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said in speech broadcast Sunday to mark Ashoura’s last day that his group will “continue the resistance” and “will not be part of legitimizing occupation in Lebanon.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.