Hizbullah Denies Reports of Heavy Losses in Qalamoun
Hizbullah denied Thursday media reports about heavy losses for the group in the Syrian border region of Qalamoun near Lebanon's frontier.
“The armed groups' claims about the death and capture of resistance fighters in Qalamoun are totally baseless,” a Hizbullah military commander told al-Mayadeen television.
Since 2013, the Lebanese, Iran-backed party has sent thousands of combatants -- between 5,000 and 6,000, according to the expert on Hizbullah Waddah Sharara -- to help the regime fight both rebels and jihadists. They send 2,000 fighters at a time in rotation, Sharara says.
Experts say Hizbullah has lost 1,000 to 2,000 fighters in the conflict, including senior commanders.
Excerpted from:
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/212735-hizbullah-denies-reports-of-heavy-losses-in-qalamoun (often interesting comments by what look like locals at that website, news from Lebanon)
