A senior Lebanese-Canadian
commander in the Shi'ite Muslim militant group
Hezbollah has been
killed in Syria where he was
fighting alongside Syrian government troops against rebels, security
sources and a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Fawzi Ayoub, who is on the FBI's "most wanted" list for attempting to bomb Israel, was
killed on Monday by the predominantly Sunni Muslim rebel forces who have been waging war on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for more than three years.
Hezbollah has joined the Syrian government in a increasingly sectarian conflict that is pulling in fighters from across the region and destabilizing Syria's neighbors. Sunni Muslim Islamist groups, some of them linked to al Qaeda, have joined mostly Sunni Syrian
rebels against the Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
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