Hezbollah has denied providing military support to the Syrian government A senior military figure in the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah is reported to have died in Syria. Hezbollah said Ali Hussein Nassif was buried in the Bekaa valley on Monday, external and had been killed "performing his jihadist duty", but did not say where. Rebels said Nassif and several of his men had been killed in
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