5,000 Hizbullah Troops in Syria, with 5,000 More to Join Them

(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Lebanon's Hizbullah has 5,000 troops fighting alongside President Assad's forces in Syria, and another 5,000 are getting ready to join them, Salman Shaikh, director of the Doha Center of the Brookings Institution, told the World Economic Forum on Sunday. There were also 1,500-2,000 fighters from Iraq in the battlegrounds of Syria, he said.


2013-05-27 00:00:00

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