Members of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah carry a portrait of Mustafa Badreddine, a top Hezbollah commander who was killed in an attack in Syria, during his funeral in the Ghobeiry neighbourhood of southern Beirut on May 13, 2016.
Hezbollah announced that Badreddine had been killed in an attack in Syria where the Shiite militant group has deployed thousands of fighters in support of the Damascus regime. The group said it was still investigating the cause of the blast near Damascus airport but it did not immediately point the finger at Israel as it did when the commander’s predecessor was assassinated in the Syrian capital in 2008.
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