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2015-12-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

A third of Hezbollah’s fighters said killed or injured in Syria

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-16 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 Syrias civil war keeps getting better an better to me.

Posted by chris 2015-12-16 00:17|| 2015-12-16 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Hezbollah also has to keep in mind that they need fighters to counter a presence of ISIS in Lebanon. So far ISIS has been able to do some damage in Lebanon (e.g., a big suicide bomb attack that killed 40+ on Nov 13 this year) but not to take actual territory.

Russia may be Hezbollah's partner in Syria but won't be so in Lebanon.

Posted by lord garth 2015-12-16 08:48|| 2015-12-16 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet Nasrallah cowers fights bravely from ~~under his daughter's bed in~~ a secure bunker

Posted by Frank G 2015-12-16 09:02|| 2015-12-16 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 For you from An Nahar, lord garth:

A senior official of the jihadist Islamic State group was killed Tuesday in a Hizbullah operation on the Lebanese-Syrian border, the party's TV channel reported.

âIS religious judge in Qalamoun, Abu Abdullah Amer, has been killed in a special operation by the mujahideen of the resistance in Ras Baalbek's outskirts,â al-Manar television said.

Al-Manar said a roadside bomb was detonated as Amer's convoy was passing in Ras Baalbek's outskirts to inspect some IS military posts.

Hizbullah fighters then blew up a second bomb in another location against IS militants who moved to recover Amer's body. A top official was critically wounded as several militants were injured, al-Manar said.

On Thursday, several IS militants were killed as Hizbullah shelled their movements as they tried to infiltrate the outskirts of the Bekaa border town of al-Qaa.

A day earlier, Hizbullah killed a senior commander of the Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front and eight of his men in an attack on their convoy in the outskirts of the Lebanese border town fo Arsal.

Militants from the IS and al-Nusra are entrenched in mountainous regions along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-16 11:05|| 2015-12-16 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 This exactal what Hez fear, they are bogged down. Jumping thru rings of fire and parading thru the streets proudly, doesn't work except in peace. I suspect Hezbollah are pretty darn good light infantry, but they didn't sign on for a war of years. Not at understanding of how they are supplied (ISIS gets all the wymens). Bottom, line attrition is setting in with combat fatigue leading to lack of aggressive movement.

Tl; Hez morale sucks

Posted by Shipman 2015-12-16 16:27|| 2015-12-16 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6 "A third of Hezbollah’s fighters said killed or injured in Syria"

It's a start . . . .

Posted by Barbara 2015-12-16 22:07|| 2015-12-16 22:07|| Front Page Top

#7 OTOH a Kurdish Leader repor is claiming that the ISIS may actually number up to 200,000 fighters, + is far more largers-n-stronger than Western INTEL believes.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-16 23:10|| 2015-12-16 23:10|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd normally think the same as Barbara, but DANG a third is a GOOD start. Two thirds to go. Pray for sepsis.

Posted by Whiskeymike 2015-12-16 23:32|| 2015-12-16 23:32|| Front Page Top

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