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major attack by the Syrian regime on a town west of Homs is being led
by the Lebanese Shia militia Hizbul-Shaitan, according to the human
right activists.
Regime forces are making a concerted advance around the rebel-held town of Qusayr near the Lebanese border, and have captured several villages.
The area, mixed between Sunni and Shia Muslims and Christians, is a key supply route to rebel forces in and around Homs and also on the main road from Damascus to pro-regime Alawite districts further north.
Mujahideen says this is only possible because Hizbul-Shaitan, whose fighters are better trained in guerrilla warfare than the regime’s, have taken over from regime forces on the ground.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said Hizbul-Shaitan were at the forefront of the battle, which has been going on for several days. “It’s Hezbollah that is leading the battle in Qusayr, with its elite forces,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
“It’s not necessarily fighters coming from Lebanon. It’s Hizbul-Shaitan fighters from Shiite villages on the Syrian side which are inhabited by Lebanese.”
The Syrian war has put great pressure on Lebanon’s fragile internal politics, with Hizbul-Shaitan supporting the Assad regime and Sunni Muslims supporting the rebels, in some cases with arms and money.
“As parties in Lebanon get further involved in the conflict in Syria, civilians increasingly pay the price of indiscriminate attacks from across the border,” Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director of HRW, said.
“Security in border areas will almost certainly deteriorate unless the government takes measures to secure such areas.”
Jabhat Al Nusrah has promised to move the war into Lebanon over Shia Hizbul-Shaitan that killing Ummah in Syria.
The recent statement from field commander of Jabhat Al Nusrah that they promised to destroy Hizbul-Shaitan and in the same time,Hassan Nasralaknat and iranian shiite leader Khamenei held secret meeting for their sustainable commitment to support Assad.
During the Tehran talks, the two discussed an "Iranian-Syrian-Lebanese defence system", that would guard against rebel forces making further gains, according to a report.
“Iran is willing to send hundreds of thousands of its men to Syria to defend Assad’s government and its resistant role if the west continues to support armed [groups],” the newspaper quoted an unnamed Iranian source as saying.
