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Source: http://www.thetower.org/new-study-exposes-hezbollah-role-in-syria/
New Study Exposes Hizbullah Role in Syria
(The Tower) Yossi Melman - A new study by the Israeli Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center estimates that at least one hundred Hizbullah fighters have been killed in the battles in Syria. The study draws its information from open sources, mainly the Arab media. It provides a list of 96 names of Hizbullah fighters who died in action in defense of the Bashar Assad regime and had their bodies transported for burial in their home villages and town in Lebanon. Hizbullah has rendered other important services as part of its combat efforts to defend the regime. They include the training of the shabiha, the armed militias and gangs of the Assad regime. Israel military intelligence estimates that the size of this "popular army" is 50,000 armed members.