It’s black ops all around. Heck, it’s news that Assad’s top aide was in Tartous instead of Damascus, much less that someone knocked off that liason to Hezbollah there...
I guess it was this capture you meant:
Coalition forces capture Hezbollah Brigades operative in Baghdad (July 31)
The Tartous venue is very interesting. If a ship explodes somewhere in the Med, or goes missing, you may have the answer.