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On May 17, a military commander of Lebanon’s Hezbollah survived an assassination attempt near the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to several Syrian pro-opposition news sources.
The commander, who is reportedly called “Mohsen,” was about to board his car in the town of Qatana, a few kilometers to the east of Damascus, when his guards uncovered an explosive device that was planted under it. The explosive device was successfully removed, pro-opposition news sources reported. Later, a large security force was deployed in Qatana and several checkpoints were set on the entrances of the town.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency is yet to confirm reports on the assassination attempt. Hezbollah is also still silent over the reports.
Hezbollah, a key ally of the Syrian government, maintains a covert presence inside and around Damascus. The group entered the country after the outbreak of the war to support government forces against rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. It has since been accused by Israel of smuggling advanced weapons from its other key ally, Iran, into Lebanon through Syria.
In 2020, two operatives of Hezbollah survived an Israeli drone strike that targeted their car on the Syrian side of Jdaidit Yabws border crossing, which is located to the northeast of Damascus. Back then, it was reported that one of the operatives was Mustafa Mughniyah, the elder son of senior Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh who was assassinated in Damascus with an explosive device in 2008.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned on several occasions in the past that the group will respond to any attack on its personnel inside or outside Lebanon.
When Israeli strikes killed the youngest son of Imad Mughniyeh, Jihad, in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Qunitra in 2015, Hezbollah responded days later by attacking an Israeli military patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms, killing two soldiers.
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in other news several articles in the us media are already acknowledging what was obvious to the rest of the world. bashar hafez al-assad, russia and iran won the so called “syrian civil war” and israel and its zionist enslaved us puppets lost. alabado sea el señor.
same tactics as ukrainian nazis, naked terrorism, that need to be a two way street.
so what if hezbollah have a covert presence inside and around damascus? so what if hezbollah are smuggling advanced weapons from iran, into lebanon then into syria? this is not smuggling, as the assad gov’t know all about it. this is helping a friend deal with a crazed neighbour who just won’t quit. the isreali apartheid regime is done. it has out stayed its welcome with the people and gov’ts of the world
except sweetheart, these israelis cause lebanon no harm why should the people suffer for some fanatic war a mafia terrorist entiry like hezbollah is imposing on them foe their own benefeit and the benefit of their brainwashed masses. two choices either no life and be a slave of these wahabi and iranian fuks or life and make compromises and peace. choose one. israel os no longer occupying any lebanese lands its over for twenty years now.
it is constantly harming syria and was active in libya too, in fact mossad works against christians by supporting terrorists 3who hate christians. izrael likes like the devil and makes claims about other nations, while having nuclear arms galore themselves they dont want to allow nuclear power stations on others lands. btw, iran does not even want nuclear weapons.
there is always the next time.