Mustafa Badreddine (Arabic: مصطفى بدر الدين; 6 April 1961 – c. 13 May 2016), also known as Mustafa Badr Al Din, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Mustafa Youssef Badreddine, Sami Issa, and Elias Fouad Saab, was a military leader of Hezbollah and both the cousin and brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyah. He was nicknamed Dhu al-Fiqar referring to the legendary sword of Imam Ali. Badreddine was assassinated in 2016 by order of Nasrallah and Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. His death is seen as one of the biggest blows in the Hezbollah leadership.
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6 April 1961 Ghobeiry, Lebanon
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Died |
10 May 2016 (aged 55) Damascus, Syria
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