I posted an article about that earlier. Hizb Allah's full blown intervention is a huge boost for Assad. While this town is located at an important crossroads, it's also tiny. 20 to 30 thousand people live there. It took the Assad forces and thousands of Hizb Allah fighters 3 weeks to take this town with air strike support (at much higher casualty rates than Hizb Allah expected).
I think in the short time that HA has been involved on a grand scale in Syria they've lost more of their fighters than the whole 2006 Israeli-Hizb Allah war. Two Hizb Allah ministers' sons have been injured in the fighting, one of them severely. The casualty numbers for Hizb Allah were upwards of 140 a week or two ago.
Since HA's larger scale involvement, the FSA has started launching rockets and mortars into Lebanon, specifically into areas that Hizb Allah controls (like Hermel and Baalbeck). When Hizb Allah first joined the war it was denied by their leadership (until enough coffins returned and funerals were held, Funerals were being held for members with no explanation where they were dying since there is no current war with Israel). Then it was justified under the guise of protecting Shia Lebanese living in Syria from extremist Sunnis then it was to defend Shia holy sites.
Since their involvement in taking over Qusayr (a majority Sunni town) their new explanation is much more honest and now they claim to be fighting to save Assad because he is an ally and is a funnel for arms to the terrorist organization. Of course they blame everything happening in Syria on Israel and America (as usual).
So now you have Shia terrorist jihadists versus Sunni terrorist jihadists from Lebanon killing each other in Syria and in Tripoli (in the north of Lebanon). The last delusional facade that Hizb Allah maintained of being a national resistance movement to defend Lebanon from attack by Israel was shattered years ago for the Lebanese when they decided to use their weapons to take over Beirut to enforce their politics on the rest of the country, but now maybe the whole Arab world can see this illusion destroyed as well as they are spending their time killing other Arabs and Muslims.
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