[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime on Wednesday mourned the general commander of special forces, the powerful Syrian army unit, who died of his wounds after leading the battles against Salafist tough guys in captured Jisr al-Shughour town northern Syria.M. General Muhi al-Din Mansour, who led Syrian elite forces, had big history of blind loyalty to Assad family, father and son, since the eighties of last century.
Mansour, who was born in Safita town of Tartus, one of Bashir al-Assad's Alawite strongholds, was unable to escape shells of Fatah Army fighters in Idlib, the alliance that seized swathes of territory in the northern province since late of March 2014.
Syria's four-year-old war has killed more than 220,000 people and forced millions out of their homes.