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Breaking: Prominent Syrian general Issam Zahreddine killed in Deir Ezzor

Leith Aboufadel by Leith Aboufadel
2017-10-18
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:10 P.M.) – The prominent Syrian Arab Army (SAA) officer, Major General Issam Zahreddine, was killed today in Deir Ezzor after his convoy struck a land mine planted by the Islamic State (ISIS).

According to a military source, General Zahreddine was conducting a special operation at Saqr Island in Deir Ezzor, when his vehicle struck the land mine.

General Zahreddine was the commander of the elite 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard that heroically fought off the Islamic State (ISIS) for several years, while under siege and under supplied.

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The General was born in rural Sweida village of Tarba and was 56 years old at the time of his death.

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