Wahhab's Arab Tawhid Party Closes its Syria Offices

The Arab Tawhid Party announced on Wednesday that it was closing all of its offices in Syria in light of the emerging reports of a spike in clashes in predominantly Druze region of Swieda in the neighboring country, said the National News Agency.

The media office of party leader, former minister Wiam Wahhab, added that the Arab Tawhid Party will no longer carry out any activity in Syria.

It said that it will halt its operations until “Syria comes out of its plight.”

Wahhab told al-Jadeed television in the evening that he "still stands by Syria."

"But I don't accept any attacks against my dignity and the dignity of those who work with me. Dignity for me comes before politics," he assured.

On August 16, the party mourned a Syrian member who died “while resisting to an armed attack” in the neighboring country's town of Dama.

"With pride, we mourn our dear martyr Naji Abou Shaqra who hails from Dama in Syria,” the party announced in a statement.

The party also mourned other “martyrs who are Adham Faraj, Adham al-Jaramani and Nawraj al-Safadi who died defending their village,” without indicating which town they hailed from.

In November 2013, the Arab Tawhid Party announced for the first time the death of members involved in the Syrian war, noting that they died in Aran village of Mount Hermon.

Many Lebanese have taken part in the ongoing civil war in neighboring Syria, particularly Hizbullah members and party chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly assured that he will not withdraw fighters before “exterminating the takfiri threat.”