...
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 and al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front jihadists in the Syrian Qalamoun along the Lebanese border, a monitor said Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian regime troops backed by Hizbullah fighters engaged in battles with al-Qaeda affiliate 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 on the outskirts of the strategic Syrian al-Qalamoun region along the Lebanese border.
Media reports said in Saturday eve that gunbattles erupted between Hizbullah and Nusra fighters in the town of Younine in eastern Bekaa.
Hizbullah sent fighters to Syria to back
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's forces against rebels trying to remove him from power. The armed intervention in Syria earned the group the enmity of Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels. Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region along the Leb border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Hizbullah's involvement in Syria had drawn the ire of many in Leb.