Hezbollah announces funeral for slain longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah set for Feb 23

The Lebanese Hezbollah group has announced that the funeral of its longtime leader will take place on Feb. 23. That's months after he was assassinated in a series of Israeli airstrikes in a southern Beirut suburb. Secretary-General Naim Kassem made the announcement regarding his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah during a pre-recorded speech on Sunday. It comes days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the war between the Lebanese militant group and Israel was extended until Feb 18. Israeli troops are still present in parts of southern Lebanon, where under the ceasefire agreement they are supposed to gradually withdraw while Hezbollah’s militants withdraw north of the Litani River as Lebanese army soldiers disperse.