Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been killed, the Iran-backed group said on Saturday, confirming his death after the Israeli military said it had "eliminated" him in an airstrike in Beirut the day before.

Nasrallah was killed in a massive Israeli bombing in southern Beirut on Friday. He led the most powerful of Iran’s Middle East proxies for decades and his death is a potentially crippling setback for Hezbollah as well as a major blow to Iran’s control in the region.

Hezbollah confirmed Saturday that its leader of more than three decades was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut.

Bellicose Israeli leader tells UN ‘we are winning’ the battle against Hezbollah ahead of the airstrike – which ‘targeted’ the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah

Iran announces retaliation against Israel for the killing of Abbas Nilforushan, Deputy Commander of the Revolutionary Guard. "[Israel] will not go unanswered," declared the foreign minister of the Shia nation,

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran's Ayatollah regime and asserted that those who target Israel will face “consequences”.