Report: Hizbullah Denies Downsizing Fighters in Syria
Hizbullah sources have denied that the party is mulling to limit the number of its fighters in Syria, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Sunday.
The denial came after official sources told the newspaper that Hizbullah was planning to downsize its members who are fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops against the rebels.
The sources said the party would make such a move away from the media spotlight.
The official sources' remarks came after President Michel Suleiman said that it was “in the interest of all sides to implement the Baabda Declaration.”
He told al-Hayat that the agreement among the rival March 8 and 14 camps to keep Lebanon at a distance from the region's crises “would be implemented sooner or later.”
“We are on the verge of retracting the intervention in Syria,” Suleiman said without giving further details.
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