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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah fighters clear area near Arsal of militants
2015-06-08
[Iran Press TV] Fighters belonging to Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, have taken full control of a strategic hilltop on the outskirts of Leb's northeastern border town of Arsal.

The elite forces of the resistance movement managed to drive 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 bully boyz out of Qarnat al-Tannour Heights on the outskirts of the town, the Lebanese al-Manar TV quoted informed sources as saying on Sunday.

According to the sources, a large number of the bully boyz were killed and injured in the operation by the resistance movement and many others fled the area.

High significance is attached to the recaptured area as it overlooks the three key valleys of Uwaiss, Atneen and al-Khayl in Arsal barrens, the sources added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
the Lebanese army shelled the positions of Death Eaters on the outskirts of the town, which lies about 124 kilometers (77 miles) northeast of the capital, Beirut.

On Friday, Lebanese security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said Hezbollah fighters regained full control of the al-Rahwah crossing on the outskirts of Arsal. The Hezbollah fighters had managed to take back the strategic border crossing of al-Darb, located southwest of Arsal, from al-Nusra Front bully boyz a day before.

The resistance fighters, who have been battling Death Eaters in the Lebanese border areas over the past weeks, also managed to clear the border heights of Majr al-Hamra and Shamis al-Hamra of the Death Eaters on June 3.

Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army units are fighting the Death Eaters in the Lebanese-Syrian border region of Qalamoun as well.

In the latest development in the mountainous region, the joint forces of the Syrian army, Syria's National Defense Forces and Hezbollah fighters tightened the noose around the Death Eaters near the Syrian town of Flitah and retook control of a number of hilltops overlooking the border between Syria and Leb.
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