Hizbullah Clashes with Syrian Gunmen in Brital Outskirts
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربيةThe outskirts of the Bekaa border town of Brital on Wednesday witnessed an exchange of gunfire between Syrian gunmen and Hizbullah fighters, state-run National News Agency reported.
“The Ijr al-Harf area on the Lebanese-Syrian border has witnessed an exchange of gunfire between Syrian gunmen and a Hizbullah post,” NNA said.
It did not elaborate or report any casualties.
The development comes after the Lebanese army repelled an overnight infiltration by gunmen who tried to progress into the northeastern border area of Wadi Rafeq.
The area lies between al-Qaa and Ras Baalbek.
LBCI reported that Hizbullah fighters cooperated with the army in repelling the attack.
Jihadists from al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State group are entrenched on the outskirts of Arsal on the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.
They engaged in a bloody fighting with the Lebanese army in August and took with them hostages from the military and police.
At least 11 Hizbullah fighters were killed last week in clashes with al-Nusra Front in Brital's outskirts and along the entire Eastern Mountain Range on the border between Lebanon and Syria.
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Brital should be wiped out by all means. It is a hub for terrorism, theft, and crime.
don't tell me what I am and who I am. I believe your hizballah and ISIS are as bad as each other. If you want my honest opinion: I think your terrorists are no match for the ISIL war machine. The world super powers are bombing them nonstop and they are still advancing. If I were you I would be careful
you and your hizballah are not defending me and I refuse they defend me or defend any Christian. They went to Syria to defend their own, just ask your sayyid. You people have no shame! Manipulation is your game but people know you for who you really are: sectarians and terrorists. End of debate.
You claim I'm sick ya da3ish, you are the one that just praised Ahmad Al Assir, the murderer of LAF soldiers. More proof of Saudi "wisdom" can't be proven, well maybe the Naharnet authors surpasses you.
you don't decide my CHRISTIANITY! That's what is wrong with you people. Even people's faith becomes an issue if they do not agree with your agenda. A Christian according to you must be allied with hizballah to pass as a Christian, otherwise he is FAKE and ISIS supporter. How can we live with people like you?!
a shia from hizballah is telling me he cares more about the Christians than I do. My mistake I engaged with you. Enough of this useless debate..
"When did Nusra and ISIS ever fire at Israel? "
never just like assad " the resistant" in 40 years... LOL
and assad never tried to liberate his land, he prefered Lebanon to take all the bombings so syria could florish while Lebanon gets destroyed.. that is the kind of regime hezbollah is defending and pretending to love Lebanon! LOL biggest joke ever....
73? oh! but that is 40 years ago... LOL it is the only thing you can say while asasd never tried to get back his land as i said!
oh! and israel far prefers assad to stay in power because assad is not dangerous to israel as he never harmed them in 40 years!
and why didn't israel attack isis? very simple: they just Watch their two enemies isis and hezbollah fight each other! LOL
so keep on with your war dating 40 years back and forget that Lebanon suffered while the regime you defend were comfortable at home cautious not to disturb israel...
fact mystic, facts, speak louder than your propaganda....
oh! and sure bashar will help hezbollah so that the war stays in Lebanon... not in syria. and you pretend to love Lebanon? a joke you are...
supporting the regime that let your country get destroyed, carefully avoiding it to Spill in syria, you should be ashamed of yourself!
Aha. So how come Israel fires at the Syrian army and not Al Nusra, if they want him to stay in power?
"So how come Israel fires at the Syrian army and not Al Nusra, if they want him to stay in power?"
just a warning to assad not to push things too far as the bombings did never harmed the regime....
and assad NEVER fired back as he "promised" LOL just a promise for hezbi lovers to think he "resists"! but action against israel? no NEVER! lol
That is the worst come back i've heard in months here on Naharnet peace. You must come up with something better than "pushing things too far" You have just admitted that Israel works with Al Nusra.
Your excuse, was a little more convincing than peace's, but then again you are as wrong as he is. The Syrian jet was flying well over their own airspace, and what about the numerous artillery fired from the Israeli side of the border, unto Syrian armed forces positions? Was that also on Israels so called territory?
Aha, so because Hezbollah and Syrian army has more firepower, in your opinion, that gives Israel the right to shelt Al Nusra in the Quneitra region? Al Nusra are very close to the Israeli border texas, how come these two groupies never fire at each other? Tactical and strategic alliance too no?
"I judge people out of their actions and words ..."
Nobody assigned you a judge and nobody assigned your leader a judge ! Who are you to judge people? I will not tell you what I judged you and he are....
That's their arrogance @liberty! That's why they are hated. They think they were given a divine mandate to assess people. They will define for you what patriotic means, what a good Muslim is, what a good Christian is, and who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. Notice when @lubnani.masi7i disagreed with him, his faith came into question. Some have a jihadi duty in the battlefield, others online.
Terrorist ur a total idiot I'm sorry. HA cannot be compared to IS. When did u see HA forcefully converting ppl, or taking taxes from minorities, or beheading "enemies of Islam"???
Anyone asking for da3sh to come here deserves just that. But plz take ur family and go to ur khalafa, we don't want an Islamic state here, neither Sunni nor Shia!
get off your high horse. Nobody wants or is asking ISIS to come here. Hizballah actions brought them here. And now hizballah tells me I should be thankful for they are protecting me from ISIL. What kind of logic is that?!
I pay taxes, TVA, etc etc for my government. We have an army that should shoulder its responsibility to protect me. WE have people who will join the army. Nobody authorized this hizballah to defend me or the borders. Enough with this manipulation and playing on people's fears.
U don't think terrorist is asking and rooting for da3sh to enter Lebanon? Do u think da3sh would've stopped at the Lebanese border? Their ideology doesn't recognize borders, or other religions. HA needs a political solution from Saudi and Iran, but these guys only want to die. They pray for martyrdom. I hope they all receive it.
You say"their ideology does not recognize any borders".
Neither does HA ideology.They are in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain..
HA recognizes it's crossing the border into Syria, it didn't demolish the border and join the two in one religious state. Da3sh considers at least 80% of Lebanese kufar. If we r ever gonna unite over something, this should b it.
@beirutbas... keep defending HA and you say you live in Hamra? Last time I visited Hamra, it was filled with SSNP offices, Amal and HA thugs roaming on scooters, intimidation rampant... enjoy Hamra.
It's time we separate our internal disputes from the regional conflicts. Our dispute with HA is political. Don't be blinded, an enemy of my enemy is not always a friend... HA are the only ones willing to confront this threat. Allah yi7miyon.
I did not see you say the LAF are confronting ISIL. Just your hizballah?! You don't even acknowledge the LAF when you say "HA are the only ones willing to confront this threat.". Amazing!
The army is forced to defend against this. HA brought this fight to Lebanon earlier than it would have come otherwise, cause it can't fight da3sh if Syria falls. But it's here now, and I don't want to wait till it's too late, they have to be eradicated. HA needs an Iranian Saudi agreement first.
So u propose a Sunni army to fight the Shia army. And who is this Sunni army? Da3sh.
The only problem is that da3sh has killed more Sunnis than anyone else... U know the phrase "be careful what u wish for"?
Looooool at Karim the Alawi and Mystic aka Mughniyeh. It's hilarious how Karim puts all these Sunnis into one group when in fact they all fight against each other.
Mughniyeh, your views are disgusting. A normal Christian does not accept Islamic extremists, whether it's al-Qaeda, Daesh, Hamas, Ikhwan, or Hezbollah. The term Islamic extremist applies to all Muslim fanatics, which includes Sunnis and Shia. All these groups use God's name to advance sectarian agendas with complete disregard for the countries they reside in.
A Christian who accepts any extremist group is an idiot, whether it's a M14 Christian cheering on Daesh to defeat Hezbollah, or if it's a M8 Christian cheering on Hezbollah while it fights along a mass murderer. Daesh, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Nusra, Hamas, Ikhwan and all the other groups are equally as radical.
So you mean, that Lebanese Forces wasen't extremists in their time during the Lebanese Civil war? You really are a hypocrit nickjames, not only muslims can be fanatics, and in my book, fanatics are the ones killing innocents, and forcing their religion on others.
Hezbollah doesn't do that, and you will find no proof of that, whats so ever.
Mystic, the Lebanese Forces came into being because of the stupid Palestinians who took over half the country (you should know this, the PLO took over all the Shia lands in the south). Also remember, at the beginning of the civil war, all the Sunnis abandoned the LAF. The LF under Gemayel were the true defenders of Lebanese Christians, who were being attacked by Palestinians and other Leftist radicals. After Gemayel is a different story. And the LF are not an active militia right now, which negates your whole argument.
Hezbollah participated in the civil war, even fought against Amal and the Syrian army. They then were allowed to keep their weapons to fight Israel in the south. Then when Israel withdrew Hezbollah said Israel withdrawal was not completed (Shebaa Farms were Syrian territory when Israel took it). Until this day Israel controls the farms, and Hezbollah has done nothing to "liberate it." Instead they go to Syria on Iran's orders to defend the mass murderer.
First of all I don't "follow" Geagea, or any of today's politicians. He's just as corrupt as the others, he doesn't represent what the Ouwwet originally stood for. Yes, Christians fought each other. Ouwwet killed Franjieh because he was a Syrian puppet, then went after Chamoun because he was an impediment to Christian unity (note that even Camille Chamoun didn't mind Gemayel going after the Tigers). As for the Aoun-Geagea conflict. Everyone but Aoun agreed to Ta'ef just to end the war. But then Aoun starts this War of Liberation
I did mention Israeli withdrawal from the south. May I add that the SLA under Antoine Lahd fled to Israel or else be captured by Hezbollah. Lahd was sentenced to death for treachery.
nickjames, So you justify the killing of Franjieh, because he was in your opinion a so called "Syrian Puppet" while your American/Israeli puppets massacred him and his family members. That's how I puzzle it, so what is the difference, when SSNP assassinated your Israeli/American puppet Bachir Gemayel in 1982? I see no difference at all, if we are having the "puppet" conversation now.
Mughniyeh, there's a difference between Franjieh being a Syrian puppet, and the LF taking weapons from Israel or else be slaughtered by Palestinians. I already said the LF needed Israel's weapons and Syrian intervention (at the beginning anyway). Gemayel even said in English in 1982 "all the foreigners, out: Syrians, Palestinians, and the Israelis, and even the UNIFIL; we don't need any foreign armed presence in this country." And that's why he was killed. Israel and Syria had the common interest to occupy Lebanon, they're both responsible for Gemayel's death.
Ofcourse nickjames, in your opinion Lebanese Forces are the rightous protectors of Lebanon, they had every right to do their massacres and slaughter women and children daily, and take weapons from Israel and USA with a good nodding.
That may sound very good for you, but in every sane persons mind, that sounds very opposite.
The LF also fought side by side with IDF on several occasions, also with a good nodding. What happend to you guys? Israel abandoned you, and now we have to hear you, whine about Hezbollahs arms every morning.
Mughniyeh, at one point LF were righteous. And every Lebanese should be against the large Palestinian presence instead of using it for political gains. So if being against Palestinian means collaborating with the Zionists, then so be it. Israel abandoning the LF has nothing to do with Hezbollah's arms. LF's arms were never the issue dividing Lebanon, because everyone had arms. Hezbollah is the only militia from the civil war that still has weapons, not to mention they're the only Lebanese militia to fight on foreign soil.
Mughniyeh, since the takfiri were gonna come to Lebanon sooner or later like you say, why couldn't Hezbollah wait for them to come to Lebanon? If they were a resistance, they would resist instead of deploy forces in Halab which is near Turkey.
Didn't you notice that all the bombs in Dahye didn't start until AFTER Nasrallah announced that he had fighters in Syria?? That's no coincidence
They are resisting now, by not letting it go further into Lebanese soil. You really are naive aren't you james?
You would rather sit and wait, while da3ish comes to murder your family and Lebanese people, or go fight the terrorists were they have their bases.
Hezbollah just took orders from Iran to help Assad. It had nothing to do with protecting Lebanon especially since the security deteriorated after Nasrallah's announcement
So the Takfiris wouldn't attack Lebanon, if Hezbollah stayed on the side lines yes? That is your story right.
Now how does that explain the murders on innocent Yazidis in Iraq? Or the Christians for instance? The takfiris are masters at killing unarmed civilians, such as the LF was.
But when the takfiris feel the slightest resistance, they go crazy and start blowing up car bombs in civilian areas.
"So the Takfiris wouldn't attack Lebanon, if Hezbollah stayed on the side lines yes? That is your story right."
I never said the takfiri wouldn't attack Lebanon. What I am saying is since they were going to attack Lebanon sooner or later, why couldn't Hezbollah just deploy on Lebanese border areas? Hezbollah would be operating in its legal capacity, which is called "resistance" like you guys always boast about.
You keep asking the same questions nickjames, now I will repeat myself for the last time, the resistance would rather suppress the takfiris away from Lebanese soil, so we do not have to deal with them here.
Your M14 politicians seems eager to defend these takfiris plots, since they are holding an umbrella over their takfiri heads.
But maybe that is what you want all along, you want the takfiris to enter Lebanon, and take it all over yes?
"the resistance would rather suppress the takfiris away from Lebanese soil, so we do not have to deal with them here."
See this is where you're twisted: they are not resisting if they are fighting in another country. Resisting means fighting someone who is occupying YOUR country, not someone else's country. Hezbollah was allowed to keep its weapons on grounds of "resistance." Fighting in another country (for whatever reason) is violating the agreement.
suppress the takfiris "away from Lebanese soil"???? So why is it that Hezbollah first admitted they were defending border villages, then Shia shrines, then justifying their outright participation. Hezbollah is fighting in Halab, is that not far away from Lebanese soil??
Naharnet, you might aswell suspend all M8 commentators on this site, instead of removing our comments, and censor our words.
That would've saved us the trouble, of wasting our time here.
Then we can leave all the M14 supporters to comment and discuss among themselves.