A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on February 12, 2015 shows Syria’s General Fahd Jassem al-Freij (R) shaking hands with a soldier as he visits a military unit at an undisclosed location in southern Syria. Regime troops shelled rebel-held villages in southern Syria, as a snowstorm slowed an advance led by Lebanon’s Hezbollah near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a monitor said. The portrait on the left show Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA
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