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Hizbullah Shells Nusra Militants in Arsal Outskirts, Inflicting Casualties
... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... fighters on Friday bombed Death Eaters from al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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 in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, inflicting casualties, Hizbullah's al-Manar TV reported. "Islamic Resistance jihadi fighters have targeted a gathering of Nusra Front gunnies in the Dahr al-Hawa area in the outskirts of the northern Bekaa town of Arsal, causing deaths and injuries in their ranks," al-Manar said. Al-Nusra has recently rebranded itself as Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... Front after announcing a severing of ties with the global jihadist network al-Qaeda. Militants from the group and the rival 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group are entrenched in areas along the undemarcated Lebanese-Syrian border and the army regularly shells their posts while Hizbullah and the Syrian forces have engaged in festivities with them on the Syrian side of the border. The two groups overran the town of Arsal in 2014 before being ousted by the army after days of deadly battles. The retreating Death Eaters kidnapped more than 30 Lebanese soldiers and coppers of whom four have been executed and nine remain in IS' captivity. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-12 |
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