(Times of Israel) Mustafa Badreddine, the head of Hizbullah's military wing and the successor and brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyeh, was killed last May in a mysterious explosion near Damascus International Airport. Last month, Al Arabiya claimed that Hizbullah leader Nasrallah and Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, were behind the assassination. Badreddine was known to have strongly opposed the fact that Hizbullah had become Iran's cannon fodder in Syria. He would not allow his men to fight on the battlefield without Iran's active cooperation in the battles.
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