'At Least 12' Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Aleppo since Friday

At least twelve Hizbullah fighters have been killed in clashes with al-Nusra Front-led militants in the southern countryside of the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitor said on Sunday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Hizbullah members were killed in “shelling and clashes.”

“Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaida's Syria branch, and a number of Islamist and rebel factions had waged a fierce attack on Friday, in which they managed to recapture the strategic town of al-Eis in Aleppo's southern countryside,” the Observatory said.

The attacking forces engaged in heavy fighting with the Syrian army and allied Hizbullah, Syrian, Arab and Asian militants, the monitor added.

The fighting has resulted in the death and wounding of dozens of fighters from both sides, it said.

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