Mustafa Badreddine was a Lebanese militant leader of Hezbollah and both the cousin and brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyeh.
18 Facts About Mustafa Badreddine
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Mustafa Badreddine was nicknamed Dhu al-Fiqar referring to the legendary sword of Ali.
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Mustafa Badreddine's death was seen as one of the biggest blows in the Hezbollah leadership.
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Mustafa Badreddine's parents were Amine Badreddine and Fatima Jezeini, both natives of South Lebanon.
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Mustafa Badreddine was a member of the Shura council for Hezbollah and the head of the unit for overseas operations, Hezbollah's external operations branch.
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Mustafa Badreddine was fighting with opposition groups in Aleppo's countryside.
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Mustafa Badreddine entered Kuwait in 1983 on a fake Lebanese passport under the name of Elias Al Saab.
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Mustafa Badreddine was a member of the militant group Islamic Dawa Party.
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Mustafa Badreddine was arrested in Kuwait together with 17 suspects one month after seven blasts in the country on 13 December 1983, including the truck bombings of the US and French embassies in Kuwait City.
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In 1985, Mustafa Badreddine allegedly ordered the assassination of Kuwait emir, but the attempt failed.
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Mustafa Badreddine escaped from the prison in 1990 during the invasion of Kuwait or the Iraqis released the imprisoned Mustafa Badreddine and the others.
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Naharnet argues that after that event Mustafa Badreddine managed to flee to Iran.
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Mustafa Badreddine was specifically accused of planning and supervising the assassination by the tribunal.
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On 13 May 2016, it was reported that Mustafa Badreddine had been killed by an explosion near the Damascus International Airport, the cause and timing of which remained unclear.
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Later aerial images of the site where Mustafa Badreddine was killed were released that showed that the site did not show any artillery damage.
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The killing of Mustafa Badreddine has not been claimed by any of the various jihadist and rebel groups in and around Damascus.
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The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya reported that Mustafa Badreddine was killed by his former bodyguard, a man he trusted completely and one of Hezbollah's top operatives, Ibrahim Hussein Jazini and bodyguard of Hassan Nasrallah, by order of Nasrallah and Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
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On 21 March 2017 the head of the Israel Defense Forces, Gadi Eizenkot, stated that Mustafa Badreddine was killed by his own men due to internal rivalries, and the order to kill Mustafa Badreddine was given by Hassan Nasrallah.