"Eight soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army have ascended alongside IRGC Brigadier General Kiyomarspour Hashemi (R.A.) in the defense of Aleppo against the Turkish-backed, Zionist-run Takfiri terrorist escalation.
Photos 1 and 2: First Lieutenant Saqr Salameh (R.A.), from the village of Ain al-Krum on Al-Ghab Plain in the Suqaylabiyah District of Hama. He just got married two months ago to a woman he described as the "joy of his life". She now has to go on without him.
Photo 3: Captain Ali Mamoun Nasser (R.A.), from the Jableh countryside village of Al-Baram in Lattakia.
Photo 4: Captain Hamza Hassan Makna (R.A.), from the Jableh countryside village of Ghanery in Lattakia. He is being called one of the central heroes of today's operations.
Photo 5: Major Ali Muhammad Shana'a (R.A.), a son of Aleppo.
Photo 6: Major Ali Khalil Khalil (R.A.), from Homs. He was on the front line against the initial Takfiri invasion, and he led his company for nearly half a day before succumbing to his wounds in combat. A soldier's soldier.
Photo 7: Captain Ali Mohsen Abboud (R.A.), from the Tartous city of Safita.
Photo 8: Lieutenant Khader Mihob (R.A.), from the Baniyas town of Al-Qadmus in Tartous.
Photo 9: Captain Ghaith Najemuddine Othman (R.A.), from the Tartous village of Sarjis.
Because Syria is the backbone and the strategic depth of the Resistance Axis, its preservation isn't merely vital or even imperative, but utterly, undeniably obligatory for the final battle to free every inch of Palestine. Not to mention, of no less importance, if the government of Syrian President Dr. Bashar al-Assad (H.A.) were to fall, the human suffering for every non-Takfiri Syrian - which is roughly 99.9% percent of the population - would be catastrophic.
These scenarios are what the warriors saluted above gave their lives to prevent. They are sanctified martyrs on the road to Al-Quds. Don't you dare refer to them as anything else."