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BBC Syria Producer | Esteemed Colleague of Mister @sommervilletv | All tweets & views are my own

Feb 29, 2020, 10 tweets

@zamanalwsl recordings reveal direct confrontations between #Hezbollah & #TSK in S. #Idlib and #Saraqeb. Hezb fighters talk about 10+ KIA and inflicting heavy damage vs #Turkish forces (90+) when they pinned down their convoy. #TSK artillery managed to break Hezbollah's attacks.

On the #Saraqeb front, #Hezbollah fighters are suffering from #TSK artillery and drone attacks, according to the recordings. The fighter says #Russia has 'sat this fight out'. The death toll, initially set at 10, isn't final as many of their men 'are still under the rubble'.

The recordings are likely to be true. On 14 Feb, a Beirut contact mentioned that #Hezbollah will deploy 1000+ men of its Special #Radwan Forces with armour to the fighting in N. #Syria. (not including the ones already fighting since the beginning of the W. #Aleppo offensive)

He stopped short of discussing where the Radwan Forces were going to be deployed but the mention of Unit 1300 & Unit 500 in #Saraqeb in the @zamanalwsl recordings provide tons of credibility.

#Iran media mourning the death of #IRGC commander Ali Zenjani killed 'last night following #Turkey airstrike vs resistance [ likely #Hezbollah] positions in S. #Idlib'. Zenjani has been previously injured fighting in #Syria.

** Zanjani

#Hezbollah social media mourns the death of Talal Shamas, in Idlib.
'The Islamic Resistance proudly mourns a Knight who died while performing his Jihadi duty in #Idlib'.
Talal, pictured below, is seen sharing a position with what looks like regular #Russia Special Forces.

Ambulances carrying bodies of #Hezbollah fighters who died in #Syria on S. #Idlib and #Saraqeb following confrontations with #TSK, crossing over to #Lebanon through their Homs's border bastion of #Qusayr.

#Iran #IRGC fighters and Shi'a militants carrying body of IRGC commander Zanjani to be mourned inside the Sayyidah Zaynab Shrine in #Damascus before his burial in #Iran

Ambulances carrying bodies of #Hezbollah fighters killed in S. #Idlib and #Saraqeb during confrontations with the #TSK passing through #Lebanon towns amidst scenes of jubilation celebrating their 'martyrdom in the line of Jihadi duty'

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