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Hezbollah's top military leader assassinated in Syria

Thousands took to the streets of Beirut Friday to mourn the killing of Mustafa Badreddine, the commander of Hezbollah’s military forces in Syria and a key supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in that nation’s civil war. An enemy of the U.S., Israel and ISIS, it is not yet clear who is responsible for Badreddine’s death. Special correspondent Jane Ferguson reports.