Blast kills Hezbollah military chief in Syria

Lebanon's Hezbollah announced Friday that its top military commander had been killed in an attack in Syria where the Shiite militant group has deployed thousands of fighters backing the Damascus regime. Hezbollah said it was still investigating the cause of the blast near Damascus airport but it did not immediately point the finger at Israel as it did when the commander's predecessor was assassinated in the Syrian capital in 2008. The death of Mustafa Badreddine, who had led Hezbollah's interven