On Wednesday, December 4, Hassan Laqees, a Lebanese Hezbollah leader who was reportedly involved in the group’s weapons procurement and development, was assassinated south of Beirut. On Sunday, another Hezbollah military commander was killed in Syria, bringing the number of Hezbollah dead in the Syrian conflict into the hundreds. We spoke with MEI scholar Randa Slim, an expert on Hezbollah, about the significance of the Laqees assassination, the security situation in Lebanon, and what kind of repercussions the incident as well as casualties in the fighting in Syria may have among Lebanon’s Shi`i community.