A senior Hezbollah commander has reportedly been killed battling Syrian rebels in the Qalamoun mountains on the border with Lebanon.Syrian opposition-affiliated sources are claiming Marwan Mughniyeh was killed along with seven other Hezbollah terrorists during fierce fighting with the Army of Conquest - a rebel alliance led in great part by Al Qaeda's Nusra Front.
He was a cousin of Jihad Mughniyeh - himself a senior Hezbollah commanders killed in an Israeli airstrike in January - and Jihad's father Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah terrorist mastermind killed in 2008 in what is also suspected to have been an Israeli assassination. (READ MORE)