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Hizbullah Reports New Progress against IS along Lebanon Border
...such as it is. But they keep on slugging away, all of them.
[AnNahar] Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
's mouthpiece al-Manar TV station reported on Tuesday new achievements by the Syrian army and the party's fighters along the rugged Syrian-Lebanese border.

Al-Manar said that Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters controlled Ras al-Kosh and Qornet Ras al-Saabeh on the outskirts of al-Jarajeer in the Syrian area of Qalamoun.

Several Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group hard boyz were killed in the fighting, the TV station claimed.

Last week, Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
announced that his group had begun to fight the IS.

The fighting in Qalamoun had been previously between Hizbullah and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front.

Hizbullah has intervened militarily in Syria on behalf of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
, saying it is protecting Leb from the threat of jihadists in the neighboring country.

The joint Hizbullah-Syrian army offensive to clear the border area of rebel militias began more than a month ago, and Nasrallah has included updates on the assault in numerous televised speeches since then.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
media reports said Tuesday that an IS leader identified as Abou al-Walid al-Maqdesi was killed overnight in fighting between his group and al-Nusra Front snuffies in the area of Wadi Hmeid on the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal.

Al-Maqdesi was in his car along with his wife when he died, they said.

The woman was taken to hospital for being injured in the attack, they added.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-06-17
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