Illustrative image. (Syrian Interior Ministry)
The Syrian Ministry of Defense has ordered new recruits to immediately join training courses as it sent more experienced units, including those with foreign jihadists, to the border with Lebanon, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 18.
The deployment, which was first reported by the United Kingdom-based monitoring group last week, is focused in the western Homs countryside, particularly in the city of Qusayr and areas to the south of it, which border the Lebanese governorates of Baalbek-Hermel and Beqaa.
According to the monitoring group, the units were deployed fully-equipped and have since been placed on “unprecedented alert.”
“The nature of the missions and objectives associated with these movements remains officially undisclosed,” SOHR said in a report from June 10.
United States President Donald Trump on June 16 suggested to Israel to let Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa “take care of Hezbollah” in Lebanon.
“I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you, I think they’d do a better job of doing it,” Trump told reporters in France.
“If Israel can’t do the job [against Hezbollah] without killing everyone else, then [Sharaa] will do the job. Syria will do the job,” he added.
This was not even the first time Trump indicated that the U.S. was open to the idea of a Syrian intervention against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In an interview with NBC earlier this month, Trump praised Sharaa and said he is willing and capable of helping deal with the group. Nevertheless, the Syrian president later outright denied that Syria is planning to take military action against the group.
Hezbollah was a close ally to Assad, who was overthrown more than a year ago by a coalition of rebels led by none other than Sharaa himself.
Despite Sharaa’s denial, there have been increasing reports of Syrian military buildup along the border with Lebanon, and not just by the SOHR. Some rumors on social networks even claimed that salaries to up to $1,500 were being offered for mercenaries willing to fight against Hezbollah, and that the money would come from the U.S.
Hezbollah and its main ally Iran have so far remained silent over Trump’s latest remarks and recent reports of Syrian military buildup along the border with Lebanon.
While the allies will likely attempt to avoid a confrontation with Syria at all costs, any military move from the country is certain to meet a strong response.
Fighting could easily spread from Syria’s border with Lebanon to its border with Iraq, where Iran’s allies will not sit idly. Direct strikes from the Islamic Republic against Syria can’t be also ruled out. Sharaa is certainly aware of the risk, but it’s highly unlikely that he could refuse a demand from Trump who helped legitimize his rule.
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taking their orders directly from tel aviv. israel is the only country in the region not to have been attacked by isis.
who would fund them if not the west and gulf arabs. everything connected to al quaida has been a western asset since the crack down on the top leaders was done. and of course until some time in the 90s as well. they just lost control of them somewhat for a couple years.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/143009 i hope they burn down the traitorous latakia and tartus.
just as the alawites were able to throw away everything that soleimani, nasralah and utkin built for them, so now let erdogan’s gangs burn down their houses and them.
may such traitors never be born again. let nato (the biggest psychopaths from krakow and imotski) go to moscow to get their bosses.
common ukranian lad. i know you hate everyone who dares to do business or wants to be friends with russia and want them dead. but it was assad not the alevites. as if normal people anywhere have any say in anything. the west should approach the alevites and persuade them their can protect them better then russia so the eu gets the bases there. so russia is gone from there and alevites dont need to be killed.
ok so the usa signs a deal to no longer attack lebanon that includes isreal and then instead sends syria to continue to fight. you either submit fully to the west or you fight them without holding back. negotiations are pointless. im pretty sure is syria and other arabs attack lebanon, trump will eben brag about how he fooled the iranians cause he is so smart. the entire worst deal ever talk from the pro israelis was just to distract.
sohr = one man living in a council house in coventry, uk who has not been to syria for 20 years. he is just an mi6 mouthpiece they use to peddle disinformation through.
this sharaa should try that he will see the hell. iran n resistance should kill him n send him to hell
asap…in not sooner.
do you mean al jolani?
amazing how quickly syria became a kowtowing vassal of uncle sam.
all the so called rebells were the whole time. every single rebell faction from the original fsa who were a rogue faction of the syrian military up to hts who became the current government.
corporation and bankers are always behind all this. oil and natural gas exploitation is a fundamental principle of modern piracy. the rockefeller family once owned america. the robber barons never left and are too big to rule.
americas al qaeda army, the lebanese christians should support and fight alongside hezbollah if they really care about their country, but if the past is anything to go by they won’t.
they should try to get trump and the us christians interested in preserving their country so isreal wont be able to kill them off. hezbollah and the whole resistance axis chose to follow hamas into death.
hamas attack on isreal is probably one of the most stupid ideas in history.
the syrian islamises think hezbollah will be a walkover, they’ll be in for a surprise, especially if other pro iran syrian militias start hitting their rear sectors and iran joins in with missile’s and drones.
if fake israel couldn’t capture and hold ground with merkava tanks and air support, what the hell makes them think “islamic state” and the like will be able to do it?
cannon fodder.
i hope that the traitorous alawite scoundrels of both sexes will pay for their betrayal of the memory of leith abou fadel, nasrallah, utkin, and soleimani.
https://hawarnews.com/ar/143008
this article gives me hope that maybe they will.
so next time there’s an isis terrorist attack in the west, people should go complain to trump and that prick who runs israel… sorry i cant say his name.
a síria fará o trabalho? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
e o irã bombardeará a síria e matará sharaa!!! ha ha ha ha ha
o hezbollah já lutou contra sharaa e contra os hts no passado e venceu os hts! não temos medo do governo terrorista da síria, que será eliminado pelo irã!
a síria voltará para as mãos do grande e eterno irã!
interesting to see iranian strikes on these guys if they do that, and iraqi involvement against them as well
this is all putins doing, remember he interfered in syria, abandoned it, shook hands with isis, thanks a bunch you idiot.
putin is at fault for much thing but in shaking hands with hts he is in good company with the rest of the planet.
hmmm. what is the plan now ? if israel has to withdraw from the south. will syrian puppets be used to attack lebanon from the north ? yet, syrians do not reclaim stolen land from israel. curious
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