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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hizbullah Brings Back Corpses of Fighters Including Ali Fayyad's
2016-03-01
[An Nahar] Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
was able to bring back the bodies of four of its fighters including that of a senior military commander who was killed in battles in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo last week, reports said on Monday.

Hizbullah recovered the bodies of four of its fighters including that of Ali Fayyad in a special operation carried out in collaboration with the Syrian army in the town of Tal-Hmam, LBCI said.

Ali Fayyad, aka "Alaa of Bosnia", was killed last week in the ongoing festivities with Syrian rebels on the Athrayya-Khanasser road in rural Aleppo, according to reports.

Fayyad was known to have "planned, overseen and led" a key part of the siege that is imposed on the rebels in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta region, they added.

He also played a key role in the capture of the strategic Syrian town of Shebaa that lies on the road to the Damascus international airport.

"Fayyad also led a military operation to besiege the Syrian rebel groups and isolate them in the south of the Syrian capital after having pushed them away from the area of the Sayyida Zeinab (Shiite) shrine," the reports said.

His military tactics also played an important role in "halting the Syrian rebels' advance towards the Syrian coast."

Hizbullah has deployed at least 6,000 gunnies to fight alongside Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's forces against Islamist-led rebels and jihadists and around 1,000 Hizbullah members have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict.

The party argues that its intervention, which is controversial in Leb, was necessary to protect the country from murderous Moslem groups and to prevent the fall of Syria into the hands of hostile forces.
Posted by:Fred

#1  1000 fatalities is the official Hizbollah count but this probably includes only those with family that needed to be contacted because there was some sort of contractual arrangment

the actual total is probably closer to 2000
Posted by: lord garth   2016-03-01 06:54  

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