Israel lured out elusive Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr with a mysterious phone call moments before launching the deadly airstrike that would kill him.

Top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr lived a life so secretive that few knew his name or face before an Israeli airstrike killed him—and helped put the region on the brink of war.

Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah commander who served as a senior adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday in Beirut, Lebanon, the IDF announced.

Shukr was a senior military adviser to the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and would be the most high-ranking Hezbollah official to have been assassinated since 2008.

Shukr was Nasrallah’s ‘right-hand man’ The IDF says Shukr, who joined Hezbollah in 1985, rose up the ranks of the terrorist group to obtain a position close to its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel eliminated one of the primary perpetrators of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, which took the lives of 241 U.S. service personnel.

Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander and target of an Israeli strike on Beirut, was said to be a close adviser to the group’s leader and someone wanted by the U.S. government for his role in ...

Shukr was a senior military adviser to the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and would be the most high-ranking Hezbollah official to have been assassinated since 2008.