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| Hizbullah, Syrian Army Seize Control of Strategic Tallet Moussa Hill |
| 2015-05-14 |
| [AnNahar] Hizbullah ... 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... and the Syrian army seized control Wednesday of the strategic Tallet Moussa hill in Syria's Qalamoun, as they pressed on with a major offensive against hard boy groups in the border region. "The Syrian army and the fighters of the resistance (Hizbullah) have taken the strategic Tallet Moussa hill in Qalamoun," Hizbullah's al-Manar television reported. The peak provides a line of sight over the border area. Al-Manar said the allies have also made "major advances in their pursuit of takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups in the mountains of Qalamoun, east of the Lebanese border." Syrian forces and Hizbullah fighters are now in control of "more than 50 percent of the outskirts of Ras al-Maara," al-Manar added. It said the advancing forces continued their onslaught Wednesday on the heights of the strategic Mount al-Barouh, where "tents belonging to the gunnies were torched and two military vehicles were destroyed, which left several of them dead or maimed." Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? said "army forces in cooperation with the Lebanese resistance (Hizbullah) pursued the remnants of terrorist forces in the Tallet Moussa area." Hizbullah and the Syrian army also seized control of "strategic" Southern Aqabat al-Faskh hill west of Ras al-Maara, the Tallet al-Harf and Dahr al-Hawa hills, and "the entire al-Khashaat heights which lie in Lebanese territory on the border with Syria," al-Manar said. It noted that the al-Khashaat area lies east of the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Nahle and "overlooks several border crossings and a large chunk of Arsal's outskirts." Sky News television meanwhile said five Hizbullah fighters were killed in Wednesday's festivities in Qalamoun. According to LBCI TV, Hizbullah is now in control of "40 square kilometers of Lebanese territory east of Nahle's outskirts, from Aqabet al-Bayda in the south to Qornet Abdul Haq in the north." Last week, Hizbullah and Syrian forces controlled the strategic heights of Assal al-Ward in Qalamoun. Some 3,000 Islamist-led gunnies are in the Qalamoun region, a Hizbullah commander recently said. He said Hizbullah and Syrian troops surround the Qalamoun from the north, the east and the south, as well as part of the west, squeezing the gunnies who remain there. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that 18 Hizbullah fighters, 31 pro-regime troops and 36 rebels had died since battles restarted in Qalamun on May 4. In April 2014, regime and Hizbullah fighters took control of most of Qalamun, but hundreds of rebel fighters remain entrenched in the mountainous region. Jihadists have also launched attacks inside Leb from bases in the area, and Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said last week that the situation there required "radical treatment." Hizbullah cites fear of gunnies sweeping through Shiite and Christian villages in Leb's Bekaa as one of the main reasons for its involvement in Syria. The group's critics, however, argue that the group's intervention has acted as a magnet for the Lion of Islam groups that have launched deadly kabooms inside Leb. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Hilltops are great for recon, but aren't always the best places to hold in-force. Especially if the enemy has good artillery. Don't believe that's the case here though. Perhaps, in this case, it will work just fine (or not). |
| Posted by: Mullar Richard 2015-05-14 12:22 |
| #3 Halalburger Hill... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-05-14 07:37 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: 2015-05-14 03:00 |
| #1 I've, initially, read this as "Strategic Toilet". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-14 02:01 |