(Zaman Al Wasl- Nahar Net)- A senior Hezbollah military commander was killed in the ongoing battles in northern Aleppo province, activists and media outlets said Friday.
Ali Fayyad, (dubbed: Alaa of Bosnia), has been killed by rebels near newly regime-captured town of Khanasser.
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, according to the reports.
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 Sayyida Zeinab shrine southern Damascus, reports said.
Fayyad was the mastermind of al-Otaiba ambush east of Damascus on February 26 February 2014 that left 175 rebel fighters dead.
According to the detonation video which published by Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station, Fayyad was the commander who detonated the landmines.
Al-Manar TV reported that the fighters were trying to break out of Eastern Ghouta to join battles in either the town of Daraa or the Qalamoun mountains. The militant group Jaish al-Islam claimed the dead were civilians, trying to escape a siege, and said it had not lost any fighters, however images of the casualties later surfaced via social media confirming all of the dead as militants.
His military tactics also played an important role in “halting the Syrian rebels' advance towards the Syrian coast.”
Hezbollah has deployed at least 6,000 militants to fight alongside Bashar Assad's forces against Islamist-led rebels and jihadists and around 1,000
Hezbollah members have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict.
The party argues that its intervention, which is controversial in Lebanon, was necessary to protect the country from extremist groups and to prevent the fall of Syria into the hands of hostile forces.
Ali Fayyad, (dubbed: Alaa of Bosnia), has been killed by rebels near newly regime-captured town of Khanasser.
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, according to the reports.
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 Sayyida Zeinab shrine southern Damascus, reports said.
Fayyad was the mastermind of al-Otaiba ambush east of Damascus on February 26 February 2014 that left 175 rebel fighters dead.
According to the detonation video which published by Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station, Fayyad was the commander who detonated the landmines.
Al-Manar TV reported that the fighters were trying to break out of Eastern Ghouta to join battles in either the town of Daraa or the Qalamoun mountains. The militant group Jaish al-Islam claimed the dead were civilians, trying to escape a siege, and said it had not lost any fighters, however images of the casualties later surfaced via social media confirming all of the dead as militants.
His military tactics also played an important role in “halting the Syrian rebels' advance towards the Syrian coast.”
Hezbollah has deployed at least 6,000 militants to fight alongside Bashar Assad's forces against Islamist-led rebels and jihadists and around 1,000
Hezbollah members have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict.
The party argues that its intervention, which is controversial in Lebanon, was necessary to protect the country from extremist groups and to prevent the fall of Syria into the hands of hostile forces.
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