On 12 February 2008, Imad Mughniyeh, a senior commander of Hezbollah, the political party and armed militia in Lebanon, was assassinated in a car bomb explosion in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of Damascus. Mughniyeh had a long history of fighting the Israel Defense Forces and was a top target for Tel Aviv. Mughniyeh actively participated in the 2006 Lebanon War. Mughniyeh, who was on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list, was killed instantly when the explosive device detonated in a Mitsubishi Pajero. In 2024, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert publicly acknowledged for the first time that Israel was responsible for assassinating Mughniyeh.