...
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...
mobilized hundreds of fighters in Syria during the past few days, al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
newspaper reported on Sunday.
The daily said that "hundreds of Hizbullah fighters were transported into Syria in small vehicles."
The development prompted observers to express fear from the eruption of fierce battles along the border with Syria as the weather improves.
Media reports said recently that fighters linked to 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Syrian al-Qalamoun are mobilizing and moving closer to the border with Leb ahead of a battle along the country's eastern border.
| ISIL fighters are reportedly moving "from eastern al-Qalamoun to its west" in preparation for a battle in the area in the spring after the snow melts. |
The Lebanese army frequently festivities with the holy warriors in their hideouts near the Syria border.
When the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, the Lebanese eastern border town of Arsal served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria, but the Lebanese army stepped up it's security measures in the village to stop infiltrations.
It was overran in August by gunnies belonging to the two 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 and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL), who withdrew from the town by taking several soldiers and coppers hostage. Four have been so far executed.
The IS, which controls several areas in Syria and Iraq, aims to spread to Leb as its fighters position in the outskirts of Bekaa towns bordering Syria and the Lebanese army is in adamant efforts to stop their efforts to infiltrate the country.
ISIL and 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 are battling in Qalamoun the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
and Hizbullah forces alongside each other, with support from some smaller Islamist rebel groups.