BEIRUT, Lebanon — A military leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah movement was assassinated in front of his home south of Beirut, Hezbollah said in a statement on Wednesday.
The killing, which came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, accused Saudi Arabia of responsibility for last month’s deadly bombing at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, fueled fears of an escalation of tit-for-tat violence inside Lebanon related to the conflict in neighboring Syria.