Hezbollah: Sunnis killed chief

- The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Sunni extremists designated Syria as a chief perpetrators of the militia movement, Mustafa Badreddine have slain. That reported to Hezbollah affiliated television broadcasting al-Manar Saturday in Beirut.

The death of Badreddine was reported Friday. He would have been an explosion in Syria killed. Many observers immediately thought of an Israeli air attack, but Hezbollah did not blame this time Israel.

Saturday, al-Manar reported that Badreddine by artillery fire from 'takfiris' was slain near the Damascus airport. He was buried Friday. With 'takfiris' mean Hezbollah figures being wrongly claiming Muslim. The term is for Sunni extremists.

Badreddine has spent much of his life dedicated to military action against Israel, that the piece of southern Lebanon dominated between 1982 and 2000. But Badreddine had many enemies in the region, such as in modern Syria or Kuwait where he in the eighties, was sentenced to death.

Badreddine was since 2012 the commander of the fighters of Hezbollah in Syria. Shiite combatants along with Iran and Russia, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The strongest foes of Assad are Sunni extremists. Assad belongs to the Alawite minority in Syria. Hanging a belief that roots in Shiite Islam.