(Daily Star-Lebanon) Marlin Dick - The Iranian news agency ABNA said Iranian General Hadi Kajbaf was killed Sunday in Deraa. It identified him as an adviser with Syrian forces, and acknowledged that his body was being held by the rebels. After Syrian regime forces and paramilitary allies sought on Monday to attack rebel positions in the Lajat region, rebel groups repulsed the attack, destroying half a dozen tanks and capturing a number of prisoners, mainly Afghan nationals. One source said the Afghan fighters are used mainly as cannon fodder, as they are ordered to lead attacks with little in the way of backup. An anti-regime civilian activist group based in Deraa accused regime forces of summarily executing 26 men, mostly civilians, in the wake of the defeat.
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