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Syrian pro-regime militia says slain man from their ranks
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Syrian National Defense Force, a pro-regime militia set up in 2012, claims the man killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in southern Syria on Sunday is from among their ranks.
They name the man as Yasser Hussien Assayed.
“The national defense force mourns with pride and sorrow the news of the martyrdom of the heroic fighter Yasser Hussien Assayed,” the group says in a Facebook post.
The group publishes four pictures it says are from the scene of the alleged airstrike.
https://www.facebook.com/National.Defence.Forces.NDF/posts/1310248712363824
The group said it was an Israeli drone that had carried out the strike.
— Dov Lieber
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