Alwaght- The foreign-backed terrorist and militant groups in Syrian city of Aleppo slaughtered a professional Lebanese soccer player.
The player identified as Kassem Shamkha, was killed when he was fighting terrorists in eastern Aleppo as part of the forces of Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement who are helping Syrian national army in its war against terrorists.
The 19-year-old soccer player was killed as he and fellow fighters were repelling a militant assault on the western flank of Aleppo, located some 355 kilometers north of the capital Damascus, an unnamed Hezbollah source told Iranian Press TV.
The late midfielder used to play for al-Ahed Sport Club, which competes in Lebanon's top soccer division – the Lebanese Premier League. Al-Ahed, which is strongly supported by the Lebanese Shiite Muslims and affiliated to Hezbollah movement, has won the Lebanese Premier League crown four times.
“He will go down in history in the club's records, because he was a hero on the football field just like on the battlefield in defense of the homeland,” al-Ahed Secretary General Mohammad Assi said.
Hezbollah has regularly reiterated that its military presence in Syria is meant to stop the spillover of the deadly Syrian conflict into Lebanon.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, according to an estimate by the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.
