#Syria—The🇷🇺Russian media has published new photos showing the commander of the Al-Nimr militia in the Syrian army, Brigadier General. Suhail #alHassan along with a number of Russian special forces personnel. 3 photos of "Al Hassan" were posted on March 18, and last Sunday. 1/10 
🇸🇾Al-Hassan is considered one of the most prominent officers in the #Assad regime, and has a long history of carrying out massacres against the Syrian people, prompting the🇺🇸United States of America to place him on the list of sanctions. 2/10
#AlHassan commanded many military operations in #Syria, the last of which was in Idlib, and adopted the scorched earth strategy before any military offensive. 3/10
The Russian special forces seen in the photo near Brigadier Gen. al-Hassan are in fact bodyguards appointed by Russian President #Putin to protect him from assassination. (i.e. At his home in southern Syria by Maj. Gen. Maher al-Assad's men, he wasn’t home at the time. 4/10
The roots of the #Assad regime's hatred against Brigadier General AlHassan begin on one of #Putin's recent visits to Syria at the Khamim base when he decided to give the Syrian officer a high Russian medal in recognition of his uncompromising fighting against Syrian rebels. 5/10
Quite a few Arab sources insist that the 🇷🇺Russians see the man as one of the candidates to screw around at the top of the #Syrian regime who will replace the Assad family in an attempt to achieve internal peace in #Syria and end the civil war. 6/10
In the new reorganization carried out by the Russians in the Syrian army, they set up a 5 corps consisting of Syrian soldiers, but the corps command receives its orders directly from the #Russian High Command, which operates on Syrian soil at the air base in the northwest. 7/10
The 25th Division of the 5th Corps (Alnimar militia) commander is Brigadier Gen. Alhassan.
The Brigade was brought to the south according to Russian instruction, in the Daraa & Quneitra in an attempt to push #Iranian militias, including #Hezbollah near the Israeli border. 8/10
The Brigade was brought to the south according to Russian instruction, in the Daraa & Quneitra in an attempt to push #Iranian militias, including #Hezbollah near the Israeli border. 8/10
The brigade was received in hostilities against it by Iranian forces and units from the #Syrian Division 4 loyal to #Iran as well, but it continues its operations in southern Syria, so far not with much success. 9/10
Recently, sources reported a change in 🇷🇺Russia's position on President #Assad's status in 🇸🇾Syria, and a senior Hezbollah delegation even rushed to Moscow, on #Iranian orders, to find out Russia's position on Assad's continued rule in Syria. 10/10
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