Syrian President Bashar al-Assad offered condolences to Hezbollah on the martyrdom of its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, stressing that "the resistance does not weaken with the martyrdom of its leader." Al-Assad sent a message to Hezbollah, saying: "My message is not to offer condolences to you on the martyrdom of the resistance leader. You have shown over the past decades the steadfastness, strength, determination and cohesion that made you stronger and more powerful than every calamity, no matter how great it is. You are from the school of struggle that will only know insistence and steadfastness on the path of truth, no matter how expensive and costly it is. The noble, pure blood is only shed for the sake of truth and its causes." He added: "The resistance does not weaken with the martyrdom of its leader, but rather remains firmly rooted in the hearts and minds, because great leaders build in their lives the doctrine of struggle, its approach and its path, and they depart leaving behind them an intellectual system and a practical approach to resistance and honor. They build for the inevitable hour of destiny that does not come by chance, but rather contains a lesson and a result, as it transfers them from a temporary presence among us to permanent immortality in our conscience and minds as a role model in the struggle, generation after generation." He said: "We are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue on the path of struggle and justice in the face of the occupation, and will remain the shoulder that supports the Palestinian people in their struggle for their just cause. Martyr Nasrallah will remain in the memory of the Syrians, out of loyalty to his standing at the head of the Lebanese national resistance alongside Syria in its war against the tools of Zionism, despite the burdens of the confrontation that he carried. At the heart of this loyalty, the name of the martyr Hassan Nasrallah will remain immortal." Source: National Iraqi News Agency