Syrians ‘accidentally’ kill dozens of Hezbollah gunmen in chemical attack

Dozens of Hezbollah fighters were killed in Aleppo in an “accidental” chemical attack carried out by the Syrian military last week, diplomatic sources told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

Syrian fighter jets struck gunmen from the Shi’ite terrorist group when the regime aircraft mistakenly attacked the town of Al-Eis, south of Aleppo, in their efforts to retake the region, according to the report.

The corpses of the Hezbollah men had burns that are typical of chemical explosives.

A diplomatic source said, “It is not the first time that coordination problems have arisen between the military police and the Russian military, Hezbollah and Iran. Incidents like this have happened repeatedly since the Russian forces entered into the conflict.”

The source added, “What happened in Aleppo demonstrates an impending problem in regards to cooperation on the ground and the incident again brings up the issue of attacks on innocent people with nonconventional weapons.”

The source continued to say, “The lack of coordination between the supporting forces and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces is troubling to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was not updated about the incident.”

This lack of coordination is particularly troublesome because it caused Putin to recently announce the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria, the source said.