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Aqil was a Hezbollah leader who sat on the group’s military council. He was wanted by the U.S. government for organizing a spate of bombings in the 1980s.

Israel Defense Forces on Friday killed a Hezbollah leader who was behind a series of bombing attacks on Americans in the Middle East that killed more than 300 Americans in the 1980s, they confirmed.

Aqil was considered the second-in-command in the organization after leader Hassan Nasrallah. If indeed he was eliminated, Hezbollah once again finds itself vulnerable to Israeli intelligence.

Mohannad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center think tank who researches Hezbollah, described Aqil as an “old school” military commander who was close to the Iranians.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more ...