syrian bodyguard killed
© Fars NewsAlaa Makhlouf, the bodyguard in charge of protecting Asma al-Assad, wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was killed in a terrorist attack on a road between Damascus and Sweida provinces.
Makhlouf was killed near the city of Shahba in a shooting and explosion of his car on Damascus-Sweida road on Wednesday, the Arabic-language media outlets announced.

Alaa Makhlouf was from the village of Marj Moirban in al-Qardaheh region in Lattakia. He was an activist of Asma al-Assad humanitarian group.

Since the start of the Syrian crisis in March 2011, the western countries, including the US, have delivered state-of-the-art weapons to the terrorists in Syria.