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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, January 18, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, January 18, 2015
‘Iranian officer killed in Israeli strike on Syria’
Lebanese news outlet al-Jadeed reports that an Iranian field commander named Abu Ali al-Tabtaba’i was among the five killed in the strike.
In addition to Jihad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s commander in the Syrian Golan Heights, the Lebanon Daily Star reports that an Israeli airstrike also killed Hezbollah field commander Mohammad Issa.
The Daily Star’s source confirmed Tabtaba’i death, and said that one Hezbollah vehicle was destroyed and another damaged in the bombing.
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