DAMASCUS: The photo (above) shows the funeral procession bearing the general’s coffin with pallbearers representing all branches of the Syrian Armed Forces. On Friday, September 14, 2018, Brig. General Yousif Raaghib Shakkoor, passed away at the Yousif Al-‘Azhma Hospital. His coffin was then carried to the Orthodox Church of the Cross where several eloquent eulogies…
He cut his teeth in battle in the October War of 1973. He was a member of Syria’s elite Special Forces. This son of the Waadi Baradaa was also seen in the Lebanon during Zionism’s festive assault on that former western flank of Syria in 1982 during the siege of Beirut helping citizens with logistics,…
AL-SHAYKH SA’EED/NAQQAAREEN: The Syrian Defense Minister and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Lt. General Fahd Jaassim Al-Furayj, inspected the troops fighting in East Aleppo today ahead of the huge campaign which will start later today to finish off the remnant rodents still clinging to their last thread in Aleppo. He visited troops in Hanaanu…
FIRST POST – JUNE 4, 2012 – BBC’S JIM MUIR, DESPERATE FOR THE BIG SCOOP, QUOTES EXILE LIARS WHO CLAIM LT. GEN. ASSEF SHAWKAT POISONED BY. INFILTRATOR This is true and you can read it on the BBC’s internet site today: Jim Muir, Lebanon-based reporter and renowned tippler, reports that Syrian Lt. General Assef Shawkat, Deputy Chief…