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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
A Closer Look at the Senior Hezbollah Commanders Killed in Syria
2016-07-19
[Haaretz] Here is a look at senior Hezbollah figures killed in Syria:

2016

-- Mustafa Badreddine, Hezbollah's top military commander, was killed in a blast in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hezbollah, which announced his death on May 13, says he was killed by rebel shelling near Damascus.

-- Ali Fayyadh, better known as Abu Alaa Bosna, who led some of Hezbollah's military operations in Leb, Syria, Iraq and Bosnia, was killed in February during battles with ISIS near the town of Khanaser in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.

2015

-- Samir Kantar, who spent 30 years in an Israeli prison for the 1979 killing of an Israeli man, his daughter and a policeman, was killed in December along with eight others in a suspected Israeli Arclight airstrike on a residential building in Jaramana, a Damascus suburb.

-- Hassan Hussein al-Haj, a top Hezbollah commander, was killed in October while fighting Al-Qaeda-linked turbans in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib. A week later, his replacement, Mahdi Hassan Obeid, was killed during fighting in the same province.

-- Jihad Mughniyeh, killed by an Israeli Arclight airstrike in southern Syria along with five other Hezbollah fighters in January. Mughniyeh, the son of slain Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyeh, was apparently in charge of operations in the Golan Heights. Mughniyeh senior, who was one of the world's most elusive bad boys, was killed in February 2008 when a bomb planted in his car went kaboom! in Damascus. Hezbollah blamed his killing on Israel.

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