The January 2015 Mazraat Amal incident was an airstrike against a two-car convoy that killed six Hezbollah fighters, including two prominent commanders, and a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Mohammad Ali Allahdadi,[2][3][4][5] at al-Amal Farms (Mazraat Amal) in the Quneitra District of Syria, in the Eastern Golan Heights, on 18 January 2015, during the Syrian Civil War.

[7] On 19 January 2015, Al-Nusra Front member Abu Azzam al-Idlibi claimed that Jihad Mughniyeh and the other Hezbollah fighters were killed in an Al-Nusra Front ambush at Jaroud in the Qalamoun Mountains in the Al-Qutayfah District northeast of Damascus, claiming that it "will be the end of the Persian project, God willing.

"[8] Ten days later, Hezbollah launched an ambush against an Israeli military convoy in Shebaa Farms,[9] which was seen by many sources as a retaliatory action.

Since the beginning of 2013, Hezbollah fighters have operated openly and in significant numbers across the border alongside their Syrian and Iraqi counterparts.

They have enabled the Syrian government to regain control of rebel-held areas in central Syria and have improved the effectiveness of pro-government forces.

[6] A United Nations spokesman reported that the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) observed two unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) flying from Israeli-occupied Western Golan and crossing the Area of Separation buffer zone towards UN position 30 on the Syrian controlled edge of the zone, where they lost track of them.

[18] He joined Hezbollah by the age of 15,[19] and rose through the ranks and took a leadership in many battles with Israel, including the 2006 Lebanon War.

[18] On 27 January, at least two rockets from Syria hit the Israeli-controlled Western Golan Heights, and Israel responded with artillery fire.

On 28 January, Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli military convoy in the Israeli-controlled Shebaa farms near the Lebanon border, killing two soldiers and wounding seven.