(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 pro-Iran Shiite fighters, including senior commanders, have been killed by Syrian rebels in Aleppo province as regime forces backed by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias press to seize last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, sources said.
The regime forces have been on the offensive for more than a month in northwestern Idlib province and parts of Aleppo. But in recent days, the regime captured more than a dozen villages in the area as the insurgents' defenses began to crumble. Al-Qaida linked rebels control much of Idlib province and small parts of the adjacent area in Aleppo.
Last Friday, a funeral ceremony held in southern Lebanon for Jaafar al-Sadek Harb, a Hezbollah field commander killed in Idlib region, the Iran-backed group announced.
Lebanese Hezbollah militia claims that all slain fighters were killed while carrying out his holy duty.'
All of the Shiite militias are working under the command of the Quds Force, which are responsible for the extraterritorial operations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
Rebels and jihadists have killed more than 131,000 regime forces and allied Shiite militants since the armed conflict erupted eight years ago with the brutal repression of protests against Assad, according to local monitoring groups.
Nearly half a million people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria's long-running civil war, which erupted in 2011 in the form of anti-government protests amid Arab Spring uprisings and eventually turned into an armed insurgency.
Zaman Al Wasl
Comments About This Article
Please fill the fields below.