What exactly is Hezbollah doing in Syria?

[Sally]

Writers appear to be paying much more attention to Hezbollah these days.


What exactly is Hezbollah doing in Syria?
By James Gavin

Hassan Nasrallah has pledged his forces' support for the Assad regime
Isis’ surprisingly rapid routing of pro-regime militias in the eastern desert city of Palmyrahas raised for the first time the serious prospect of the demise of the Assad regime, or at least its pinning back into core heartland areas where it can rely on external protagonists to lend it mission-critical support.

The most prominent of these non-Syrian props is Hezbollah, the powerful, but stretched, Lebanese Shia militia-come-political party.

Its strategists are in a quandary, as they observe the steady unravelling of the significant gains made by their Syrian ally over the last couple of years.

Hezbollah did much of the heavy lifting that helped secure Homs from rebel hands two years ago. It has also sacrificed numerous fighters in a battle that – ostensibly at least – is not of immediate relevance to a Lebanese-based group.

Continue reading at:

What exactly is Hezbollah doing in Syria? | Little Atoms?

 

[irosie91]

Hezbollah is the issue of the day. Everything the hezbos do
is for the sake of Iranian Imperialism ------the fact that hezbos
has been so underplayed is a testament to the moron feature
of USA foreign policy------like a throwback to jerk jimmy carter.
IMO---the good news is that the Hezbos cannot really win UNLESS they play a really clever political game and convince
the sunni world to join up on the Shiite cause------it is simple math---there are about nine times more sunnis than Shiites and lots of people do not like Iran. Re: Yemen-----rosie oracle at usmb will not PREDICT------sunnis in Yemen are going to go after Houthis and Hezbos in yemen-------it is going to be bloody

 

[aris2chat]

Iran's will

 

[irosie91]

Iran's will

aris----you would be surprised (well maybe not surprised) Some people actually---on this very board---have claimed that
Hezbollah "DECIDED" to "protect" Syria from USA, Turkish,
Israeli AGGRESSION ----via proxy forces bent on attacking
Saint Assad (pbuh). Hezbollah is also in Yemen to PROTECT
the Yemenis from Saudi aggression------Saudi arabia is seeking
to place Yemen under its own evil KING <gasp>

 

[waltky]

A sectarian split of Syria...

After ruinous war, Syria regions may go separate ways
Sep 29, 2015: Syria has already been shattered by more than four years of civil war, and with no solution in sight, some players on the ground and observers outside have concluded its fate will be to break up along sectarian or regional lines in a best-case scenario, tenuously held together by a less centralized state.

A true partition would risk yet more mayhem, including ethnic or sectarian cleansing and battle over every bend in the border. But so spectacular is Syria's disaster that many wonder whether its disparate groups can share a unifying national sentiment again. The sectarian dynamic was evident last week in a UN-backed truce deal in the key Zabadani region near the Lebanese border, which reportedly envisions the transfer of thousands of Shiites and Sunni fighters from one area to another. In all, half the prewar population of 23 million has been displaced and a quarter million killed, propelling a huge wave of refugees to neighboring countries and now to Europe.

The government, dominated by President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, controls Damascus, the Alawite heartland along the Mediterranean coast, other cities and connecting corridors in between. Kurds run their own affairs in the northeast. The militant Islamic State group controls much of the Sunni heartland in the east. Other Sunni rebels control pockets in the north and south. The Druze remain loyal but are starting to talk about autonomy in their southern areas as well. "What we have today is a partition that no one wants to acknowledge formally,'' said Ahmad Shami, an opposition activist from the besieged suburbs of Damascus, using his nickname to protect his identity.

The debate in the region and in international capitals has centered on Assad's fate, what might replace his government and whether he should be allowed a face-saving transitional role. But as the highly authoritarian state has disintegrated and the deaths and population transfers have mounted, sectarian hatreds have become so inflamed that the bigger question is impossible to ignore. "After the destruction and killings that took place, it is difficult for the Syrian people to coexist (in) a central state,'' said Mustafa Osso, a leader of the minority Kurds who is vice president of the Syrian National Coalition, the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group. He favors not total partition but federalization.

More After ruinous war, Syria regions may go separate ways - The Times of India

 

[montelatici]

Actually, Hezbollah, Russia, Iran, China and Iraq now are defending Syria from Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) and ISIS.

 

[irosie91]

Actually, Hezbollah, Russia, Iran, China and Iraq now are defending Syria from Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) and ISIS.

 

[irosie91]

Actually, Hezbollah, Russia, Iran, China and Iraq now are defending Syria from Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) and ISIS.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization which supports Iran's Imperialist ambitions. China and Russia have no interest in the filth of Al Qaeda

 

[waltky]

UN not gonna settle for a stalemate...

UN Official: Partition of Syria Possible if No Improvement
October 12, 2015 — A senior United Nations official warns the partition of Syria is possible if the situation in the conflict-ridden country continues to deteriorate or is left in its current chaotic state.

Staffan de Mistura said he considers the possible partition of Syria as one of the worst-case scenarios, and he said the major powers and Syria's warring factions do not want this scenario to occur. De Mistura, the secretary-general's special envoy for Syria, however, said he has noted a de facto partitioning already occurring. “At the same time, the situation could move into a toxic type of cocktail and of a combination of a creeping Afghanistan with shades of Libya and Somalia," he said. "Hence the need of an urgent political process to start now.”

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, addresses a news conference on the latest developments in Syria at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland​

Dangerous dynamic

De Mistura said Russia’s military intervention in Syria has introduced a new and more dangerous dynamic, and he warned that accelerating the militarization of the conflict could lead to, what he called, an "incident" between the United States and Russia. De Mistura said some things can and must be done to ease the suffering of Syria's people. He said there must be a de-escalation in violence and the Syrian forces must stop using barrel bombs, which kill and maim thousands indiscriminately. Of particular and immediate importance, he said, is the evacuation of 46 severely wounded people and their family members from the rebel stronghold of Zadani on the border with Lebanon. He said another 92 wounded, along with their family members in the government-held villages of Kafraya and Fuaa in the northwest, also must be allowed to leave.

The U.N. official said aid agencies are prepared to evacuate them and that the operation could proceed right away as a cease-fire announced September 29 continues to hold. De Mistura said he is headed to Moscow to discuss the medical evacuation, and a number of other urgent issues related to the conflict and its escalation since the stepped-up military action in Syria. He said he will leave for Washington immediately after that to confer with officials about the crisis and ways to get peace negotiations back on track.

UN Official: Partition of Syria Possible if No Improvement

 

[shadow355]

Writers appear to be paying much more attention to Hezbollah these days.


What exactly is Hezbollah doing in Syria?
By James Gavin

Hassan Nasrallah has pledged his forces' support for the Assad regime
Isis’ surprisingly rapid routing of pro-regime militias in the eastern desert city of Palmyrahas raised for the first time the serious prospect of the demise of the Assad regime, or at least its pinning back into core heartland areas where it can rely on external protagonists to lend it mission-critical support.

The most prominent of these non-Syrian props is Hezbollah, the powerful, but stretched, Lebanese Shia militia-come-political party.

Its strategists are in a quandary, as they observe the steady unravelling of the significant gains made by their Syrian ally over the last couple of years.

Hezbollah did much of the heavy lifting that helped secure Homs from rebel hands two years ago. It has also sacrificed numerous fighters in a battle that – ostensibly at least – is not of immediate relevance to a Lebanese-based group.

Continue reading at:

What exactly is Hezbollah doing in Syria? | Little Atoms?

QUOTE = "Today the Treasury Department designated the terrorist group Hezbollah for providing support to the Government of Syria. This action highlights Hezbollah’s activities within Syria as well as its integral role in the continued violence being carried out by the Assad regime against the Syrian population."

---------- August 10, 2012


Briefing On the Designation of Hezbollah for Supporting the Syrian Regime




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Hasan Nasrallah = Leader of Hezbollah

QUOTE :
Nasrallah publicly indicated in May 2013 that Hizballah was supporting Bashar al-Asad’s regime by sending fighters to Syria. The European Union designated Hizballah’s military wing as a terrorist organization on 22 July 2013, following the March conviction of a Hizballah member in Cyprus, the July 2012 bus bombing in Bulgaria, and the group’s intervention in Syria."

National Counterterrorism Center | Groups


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Hezbollah has backing from Iran.

Iran supporter of 'terrorist related activity', finds US State Department



Shadow 355

 

[aris2chat]

Iran's will

aris----you would be surprised (well maybe not surprised) Some people actually---on this very board---have claimed that
Hezbollah "DECIDED" to "protect" Syria from USA, Turkish,
Israeli AGGRESSION ----via proxy forces bent on attacking
Saint Assad (pbuh). Hezbollah is also in Yemen to PROTECT
the Yemenis from Saudi aggression------Saudi arabia is seeking
to place Yemen under its own evil KING <gasp>

puppets of Iran.
Hezbullah was involved before America or others stepped forward. If anything their involvement brought the foreign forces into play.

 

[montelatici]

Hezbollah is there to prevent a massacre of all non-Sunnis still in Syria, by the murderous Sunni Islamists supported by the nutcases like Aris on this forum.

 

[irosie91]

Hezbollah is there to prevent a massacre of all non-Sunnis still in Syria, by the murderous Sunni Islamists supported by the nutcases like Aris on this forum.

bullshit, monte Hezbollah is there for the same reason Russia is there-----IMPERIALISM

 

[montelatici]

No, Hezbollah are there to defend fellow non-Sunnis. Without them Alawites and Christians in Syria would have been wiped out by now.

 

[irosie91]

No, Hezbollah are there to defend fellow non-Sunnis. Without them Alawites and Christians in Syria would have been wiped out by now.

bullshit. Christians and Zoroastrians and Jews and even ethnic arabs and bahai persons have been
WIPED OUT under SHIITE SHIT----in Iran. For information about the glories of Baathisf FILTH---
talk to a COPT------we got lots in the USA For information on the glories of BAATHIST shit----talk
to a Syrian jew------or a Syrian Christian ------we got lots in the USA As a kid----LONG ago the only
Syrians I knew were ALL Christians----I actually thought that Syria is a Christian country------but the people
were somehow afflicted by some kind of "Nazi" characters so they fled

 

[montelatici]

Iran has nothing to do Baathism you maniac. In any case, Jews, Christians and Zoroasstrians are much safer in Iran than they are in rebel controlled areas of Iraq and Syris.

Syrian Christians overwhelmingly support the Government. Take your meds and shut up.

 

[irosie91]

Iran has nothing to do Baathism you maniac. In any case, Jews, Christians and Zoroasstrians are much safer in Iran than they are in rebel controlled areas of Iraq and Syris.

Syrian Christians overwhelmingly support the Government. Take your meds and shut up.

---so? you have said nothing-----right NOW -----the tiny remnant of jews and Christians and Zoroastrians
who have survived the filth of Shiite shit-------are a bit safer in Iran than they are in Syria------nothing new----
the varying situations for non muslims in shariah shit holes has been going on for 1400 years-----Learn some hitstory. it's a bit safer in Iran than in Syria ----in the year 2015-----HOW GLORIOUS!!!!!!!. Historically
it was a lot safer in GERMANY for jews 1000 years ago------than in the shariah shit holes of the Iberian
peninsula. When I was a kid----Syrian Christians were fleeing Syria in droves (of course----so were jews)

 

[irosie91]

PS------monte has claimed that the SYRIAN CHRISTIANS HAVE CARTE BLANC-----to find
refuge in Iran-------- into the arms of the ever loving SHIITES under the care of the ever loving
ayatoilets---------the Zoroastrians who fled to Mumbai centuries ago will be greeted with opened
arms and generous compensation

 

[aris2chat]

No, Hezbollah are there to defend fellow non-Sunnis. Without them Alawites and Christians in Syria would have been wiped out by now.

bullshit. Christians and Zoroastrians and Jews and even ethnic arabs and bahai persons have been
WIPED OUT under SHIITE SHIT----in Iran. For information about the glories of Baathisf FILTH---
talk to a COPT------we got lots in the USA For information on the glories of BAATHIST shit----talk
to a Syrian jew------or a Syrian Christian ------we got lots in the USA As a kid----LONG ago the only
Syrians I knew were ALL Christians----I actually thought that Syria is a Christian country------but the people
were somehow afflicted by some kind of "Nazi" characters so they fled

http://www.genocidewatch.org/iran.html


Kurdish Genocide


Iranian Genocide

 

[Camp]

Actually, Hezbollah, Russia, Iran, China and Iraq now are defending Syria from Al Qaeda (Al Nusra) and ISIS.

Have the Chinese shown up in Syria yet? The Chinese foreign ministry wants to know. They claim none have been sent and the Chinese are not interested in getting involved with what they call "old Cold War games".