Reports: Hizbullah Kills, Wounds Several Nusra Militants in Arsal Outskirts

W460

Hizbullah on Wednesday targeted a group of militants from al-Nusra Front in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, media reports said.

Hizbullah's al-Manar TV said several jihadists from the Qaida-linked group were killed and many others were wounded when Hizbullah fighters bombed them in the Dahr al-Hawa area in Arsal's outskirts.

On Monday, Hizbullah fighters launched an attack against a post for the extremist Islamic State groups in the outskirts of the town of Ras Baalbek, near Arsal, killing and wounding several militants.

Militants from the al-Nusra and the IS are entrenched in mountainous regions along the porous Lebanese-Syrian border.

The Lebanese army regularly shells their positions and Hizbullah fighters have engaged in clashes with them on the Syrian side of the border.

In August 2014, the IS and al-Nusra waged a major attack and overran the northeastern border town of Arsal in the wake of the arrest of a senior militant.

The two groups withdrew after deadly battles with the army but took with them around 30 hostages from the Lebanese army and police of whom four were eventually executed.

Y.R.

Comments 6
Thumb liberty 07 April 2016, 04:03

Al Manar lies were banned from being broadcast to the world, but naharnet is broadcasting on its behalf now.

Thumb ice-man 07 April 2016, 06:33

At last some good news!!!

I am tired and fed up with being sad and depressed. I am fed up reading how our iranian resistance is getting slaughtered daily by terrorists in Aleppo, Idlib, and many parts of our beloved Syria. I am tired of seeing photos of our heroes in the resistance blown to pieces, without limbs, and their bodies riddled with bullets. A human being can only take so much!

I am honored to learn that our iranian resistance is not only fighting to protect us in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria among other places but also in and around Arsal in Lebanon. I cannot imagine what life would be like without our resistance.

Thumb justin 07 April 2016, 07:18

'I cannot imagine what life would be like without our resistance.'

I can...lol.

Thumb justin 07 April 2016, 07:17

إشكالاً وقع بين عناصر من “حزب الله” وشخص من آل يحيا في الدورة، حيث ترجّل إثنا عشر عنصراً من الحزب عُرف منهم الحاج عصام قطايا، آتين من منطقة الرويسات، بسيارات ذات زجاج داكن، وعمدوا إلى تهديد يحيا ليسارع الجيش اللبناني إلى التدخل وفض الإشكال. وقد توجه عناصر الحزب إلى الجيش بالقول: “نحن اللجنة الأمنية في “حزب الله””.

وفي التفاصيل، أن سائقاً سورياً يعمل لدى يحيا وهو صاحب شركة نقل عام، تعرّض لحادث سير ولحقت أضرار بالباص التابع له ما دفع بيحيا إلى مراجعته ليسدد له تكلفة الأضرار المُلحقة بالباص، وقد حجز له تذكرة هويته كضمانة، الأمر الذي استفز السائق السوري ليلجأ إلى عناصر من “حزب الله” في الرويسات، الذين بدورهم تعرضوا ليحيا، بالتهديد والوعيد، ليسارع الجيش إلى التدخل فوراً وفض الإشكال.

Thumb EagleDawn 07 April 2016, 08:20

Hizbullah's al-Manar TV said .....

lol !!! Manar is as credible as when mowaten of iran says he is Lebanese, secular and has only one account.

Thumb lubnani.masi7i 07 April 2016, 09:18

untold heroics.... season 4 episode 15