The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement announces that the powerful Shiite militia had begun to fight the Islamic State jihadist group along the rugged Syrian-Lebanese border.
“The battle with Daesh in Qalamun has begun, in the eastern (mountain) chain and on the Syrian-Lebanese border,” Hassan Nasrallah says in a televised speech, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.
He says fierce clashes had left dozens of IS fighters dead, and that Hezbollah had lost men, without specifying a number.
“They (IS) began the fighting, but we will continue the battle,” Nasrallah says.
Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah speaking in southern Beirut, November 3, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
Nasrallah vows to see the fight with the jihadists through.
“I assure you that defeat will come to these men. It’s a matter of time, and we are not in a hurry,” he said.
Nasrallah says that Syria’s army and Hezbollah were in control of Qalamun’s major mountains and hills after defeating IS’s jihadist rival and Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, Al-Nusra Front.
— AFP
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