[ABNA.IR] Syrian government troops backed by Hezbollah resistance forces have ambushed a convoy belonging to the al-Qaeda-backed al-Nusra Front terrorist group, killing the commander believed responsible for kidnapping of Syrian Christian nuns in 2013.The convoy was headed by Malek al-Tall, an al-Nusra Front commander, who was killed in the ambush in Syria's Qalamoun, a mountainous region bordering Leb, The Daily Star reported Wednesday citing a Lebanese security source.
Al-Tall was allegedly responsible for the abduction of thirteen nuns last year, when the radical terrorist group took over the historic Christian town of Maaloula, located on the edge of the rugged Qalamoun region about 60 kilometers northeast of the capital.