Twenty militants of Hezbollah, Iran proxy, were killed in an army ambush free Sayyida Zeinab south of Damascus, according SANA al-Thawra.
Two day ago, A
military commander of Hezbollah was killed in fighting near the Syrian capital
and has been buried in his southern Lebanese hometown of Kfar Sir, residents
said Monday.
"Hezbollah
military commander Hossam Ali Nisr, aged 33, was buried on Saturday. He was
defending Sayyida Zeinab," which houses a Shiite shrine southeast of
Damascus, "when his group was attacked and he was killed," one
resident told AFP, without giving a date.
Hizbullah is a
key Damascus backer and has sent fighters into Syria to support President
Bashar Assad in his regime's bid to crush a 29-month rebellion.
Fighters of
Hizbullah played a key role in the government's recapture in June of the rebel
bastion of Qusayr, near the Lebanese border.
The report of
Nisr's killing comes after Hizbullah chief sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said he was
ready to go to Syria to fight extremists he accused of staging a deadly car
bomb attack last Thursday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a bastion of his
movement.
According to a
final count, 27 people were killed in the attack.
"I will go myself to Syria if it is so necessary in the
battle against the takfiris (radical Sunni Muslims), Hizbullah and I will go to
Syria" to fight rebels trying to oust the Damascus regime, Nasrallah said
in an angry reaction to the car bombing.
Tensions have
soared in fragile Lebanon over the conflict in neighboring Syria. Though
Lebanon is officially neutral, the country is deeply divided between those
backing Assad's regime and those who oppose it.
(with AFP)
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