DAMASCUS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Mohammad Tariq Al-Khadra, the chief commander of the Palestine Liberation Army in Syria, died on Wednesday evening, said a statement by the Palestine Liberation Army.
The statement didn't reveal the cause of Al-Khadra's death.
Born in 1941 in the Gaza Strip, Al-Khadra lived his childhood in several cities in Palestine and fled to Syria in 1948 when Israel was established and has since lived most of the rest of his life in Syria.
In 1960, he enlisted himself in the Syrian army and later joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1966.
The father of three assumed the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980. Enditem
