Lattakia Province:

The major- general Mehsen Makhlouf’s funeral held yesterday in Lattkia – his birthplace. He was the leader of the 11th tank division and relative for the mother of Bashar al- Assad, and who was in charge of retaking the city of Palmyra and its vicinity. He was murdered by IS yesterday when he was returning from inspection tour of his soldiers in the battlefronts in Palmyra area, also IS could kill 4 other generals and colonels as well as 12 soldiers. The major- general Mehsen Makhlouf is considered the most senior officer killed since murdering the general Mehyi al- Din Mansour, the leader of Special Forces in Syria in early May, 2015, where he was within 11 Brigadier, 11 colonels, 3 lieutenant colonels, 10 majors, 25 captains and 29 first lieutenants. All those officers killed when Jabhat al- Nusra, Ahrar al- Sham, Jabhat Ansar al- Din, Jaysh al- Islam, Ajnad al- Sham, Ansar al- Sham, al- Forqan Brigades and the Turkestan Islamic Party seized the city of Jeser al- Shagour in April 25, during the clashes around the national hospital in Jeser al- Shagour and village of al- Kfeir as well as in the clashes erupted from in April 22, when the regime forces were trying to advance in the area to lift the siege imposed on the hospital. In addition to, there are 300 missing and detainees of the regime forces and allied militiamen who were arrested in the period from April 22 until May 22.