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Post by sevenofnine on May 10, 2015 12:25:10 GMT -5
Al Jazeera embedded reporters all action is on their site
The Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah has sent its fighters on an offensive along Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, fighting alongside government forces to dislodge opposition fighters from strongholds in the mountainous area.
Battles erupted between Hezbollah fighters and Syrian troops on one side and the opposition fighters on another in the strategic town of Qalamoun on Sunday.
Qalamoun is a key supply route for both Hezbollah and the Syrian government.
It is also important for the government because it wants to secure a key northwestern road which connects the capital Damascus to Homs, and then on to President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold of Latakia on the western coast.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/150510132901453.html
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Post by Daniel on May 14, 2015 9:30:09 GMT -5
Some 250 Hizballah dead in Qalamoun battle. Nasrallah pushes Lebanese army to enter Syrian war
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 13, 2015
Amid Hizballah’s rising war losses, its leader Hassan Nasrallah strongly urged the Lebanese chief of staff Gen. Jean Kahwagi to send his troops into battle over the strategic Qalamoun Mountain, alongside Hizballah and the Syrian army, debkafile’s military sources disclose. Nasrallah argued that the time had come for the Lebanese army to take a hand in the fighting, since the Syrian rebels led by Al Qaeda’s Syrian arm, the Nusra Front, were shelling the eastern Beqaa Valley of Lebanon from their Syrian strongholds on the mountain that sits athwart the Syrian-Lebanese border. Thousands of jihadis, he said, were seizing land around the northeastern Lebanese villages of Arsal and Nahleh.
Another of Nasrallah’s demands was for Gen. Kahwagi to bring out the Lebanese army’s heavy artillery to shell rebel Qalamoun concentrations, positions and moving vehicles, because they endangered Lebanese national security.
The Lebanese general gave the Hizballsah chief a flat no. He declared the Lebanese army would not “slip” into any war inside the Syrian area of Qalamoun where Hizballah and the Syrian army are currently fighting jihadis, but added: “The army is ready to confront any assault on Lebanese sovereignty and push back any infiltration by militants.”
Tuesday, May 12, in Beirut, US Ambassador David Hale interceded in the argument: “I would say that ISIS posed no threat to Lebanon until Hizballah went into the war in Syria and that provided the magnet that drew these terrorists here.”
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www.debka.com/article/24595/Some-250-Hizballah-dead-in-Qalamoun-battle-Nasrallah-pushes-Lebanese-army-to-enter-Syrian-war-
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Post by sevenofnine on May 14, 2015 15:10:01 GMT -5
Yeah getting crazy I got another crazy story that AL Jazeera America had their faultline program beside this
BTW I not surprise I Think who win this battle would take Israel on in Super Bowl of Middle east right LOL!
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