...
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...
members have been reportedly killed in an ambush by the 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 in Syria's Qalamun region near the border with Leb.
The pan-Arab Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
television said Wednesday the six men were killed when al-Nusra targeted Hizbullah "supply vehicles" in Qalamun.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
the UAE-based Orient News TV, which opposes the Assad regime, said al-Nusra carried out a "major operation" against a Hizbullah "supply convoy" in the Syrian region.
"Activists reported a huge kaboom against a Hizbullah supply convoy in Qalamun and the loud blast was heard across the region," the TV network said.
In early January, five Hizbullah members and six Nusra turbans were reportedly killed when the al-Qaeda-affiliated group attacked posts controlled by the Lebanese party and the Syrian army in the Qalamun town of Flita.
Al-Nusra announced on Twitter at the time that its fighters had planted landmines near posts controlled by Hizbullah and the Lebanese army in the border region.
Flita is just across the Lebanese border from Arsal and is a crossing point which rebels and refugees have used regularly.
Hizbullah has sent fighters across the border to aid Syrian regime troops in Qalamun and in several regions across Syria.
Its involvement helped the Syrian army recapture most of Qalamun from rebel hands.
The Lebanese army for its part has been battling Syria-based turbans from al-Nusra and the 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....
group who are entrenched on the mostly non-existent border between Leb and Syria.
In August, jihadists from the two groups overran the Lebanese border town of Arsal and engaged in deadly fighting with the army. Around 20 troops were killed while at least 35 soldiers and coppers were taken hostage by the retreating krazed killers.