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A Damascus funeral: ‘He died defending the nation’
Mourners wept in the Catholic church in Tabala, near the old city of Damascus, as a priest performed funeral rites for Major General Joseph Fadlallah Dakhlallah, “the best in the Syrian army at fixing tanks”.