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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Militants Incur Casualties in Hizbullah 'Ambush' in Arsal Outskirts
2015-11-20
[AnNahar] Two jihadist holy warriors were killed and five others were maimed Thursday in a "Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
ambush" in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, media reports said.

"A group of holy warriors fell into an ambush set up by the mujahideen of the resistance in the Wadi al-Kheil area in Arsal's outskirts," Hizbullah's al-Manar television said.

Quoting "the murderous Moslems' sources," the TV network said "they have admitted that two of their members were killed and five others were maimed."

Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said the holy warriors belong to 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, also saying that two were killed and five others were maimed.

Most of the Syrian regions near Leb's border were captured over the past year by Syrian regime troops and Hizbullah fighters.

Militants from al-Nusra and the Lion of Islam 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group are still however entrenched the outskirts of Arsal and other border areas.
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