Battle with Nusra Front at Syria-Lebanon border 85% done: Hezbollah

… from Press TV,  Tehran

[ Editor’s Note:  We are watching another unsettling event for the US coalition, another successful combined operations anti-terrorism offensive against a long held terrorist base on the Lebanese-Syrian border against Al-Nusra, to which the US has been giving a free pass. Such “bases” cannot maintain their existence without logistics supplies which could only have come from the usual suspects of terrorism supporters in the area. Guess who.

Also notice in the above the very appropriate use of inexpensive artillery by Hezbolla of these truck mounted artillery guns, which from the videos I have seen, once they have an elevated position on an Al-Nursa position, they can destroy it with the luxury of no return fire.

All of these gun positions, at the correct ranges and lines of fire, were scouted out ahead of time and have contributed to the fast advance. The question that remains is where are they pushing the jihadis to now, and will they just be moving the problem around to have to fight again.

At the beginning of the operation I understood it be an encirclement to “eliminate” the Takfiris, but that does not seem to be the case now, but hopefully will be clarified. Iraq can testify to the short term benefits only of pushing the jihadis out of one town, only to have them take or reinforce another to continue fighting and prolong the war and its cost… Jim W. Dean ]

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– First published … July 25,  2017 –

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says its battle to eliminate members of the foreign-sponsored and Takfiri Jabhat Fatah al-Sham – previously known as the Nusra Front – militant group from the Syria-Lebanon border is 85 percent complete as it is continuing its campaign to take their last remaining footholds on the frontier.

Hezbollah’s media bureau announced in a statement on Tuesday that resistance fighters had regained control over Komail plains as well as Hamoudi, Baidar and Shoabat al-Nihla areas on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, located 124 kilometers (77 miles) northeast of the capital Beirut, on Tuesday.

Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Manar television network later broadcast a video footage, showing the hideout of the self-proclaimed Fatah al-Sham governor of the strategic al-Qalamoun region in Wadi al-Kheil.

Press TV correspondent in Arsal, Mariam Saleh, also said Hezbollah artillery units have been shelling terrorist positions in the area since Tuesday morning as Fatah al-Sham extremists are fleeing to save their lives.

She added that the operation has inflicted heavy losses on militant ranks, noting that Hezbollah fighters have raised the movement’s and the national Lebanese flags in the areas they have dislodged Fatah al-Sham terrorists from.

The Arabic-language al-Joumhouria (The Republic) daily newspaper, quoting an unnamed security source, reported on Monday that the Lebanese army has adopted precautionary measures along Arsal in the wake of suggestions that militants may attempt to kidnap military personnel.

Hezbollah launched a major push last Friday to clear both sides of Lebanon’s border with Syria from “armed terrorists.” In August 2014, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Daesh terrorist groups overran the eastern Lebanese town of Arsal, killing a number of Lebanese forces. They took 30 soldiers hostage, most of whom have been released.

Since then, Hezbollah and the Lebanese military have been defending Lebanon on the country’s northeastern frontier against foreign-backed terrorist groups from neighboring Syria.

Hezbollah fighters have fended off several Daesh attacks inside Lebanon. They have also been providing assistance to Syrian army forces to counter the ongoing foreign-sponsored militancy. The movement has accused Israel of supporting Takfiri terrorists operating in the Middle East.

Israel, which continues to occupy Lebanon’s Shebaa Farms and Syria’s Golan Heights, is widely reported to be offering medical help to Takfiri terrorists injured in Syria. In December 2015, British newspaper the Daily Mail said Israel had saved the lives of more than 2,000 Takfiri militants since 2013.

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