(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Nusra Front and Free Syrian Army have made rapid advances in Qalamoun region, inflicting humiliating defeats on Regime army and Hezbollah Militia during the last two days with death toll rise to dozens.
Activists said rebels have taken control of regime bastions in Assal al-Ward, the strategic town on the Syrian-Lebanese border, as well one of Hezbollah militants held captive, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
The last twenty-four hours after the Brital Mountains attack, the Al-Nusra Front – Al-Qaeda in Syria – published a video showing the various stages of a military operation that targeted a Hezbollah position outside Brital, not far from the city of Baalbek, Lebanese website NOW reported.
On October 5, clashes broke out on the Bekaa side of the Anti-Lebanon Mountain Range, and involved at least four positions. This time, the clashes were relatively distant from Arsal. The fighters came from Syria’s Assal al-Ward area, crossed the supposed border and penetrated several kilometers into Lebanese territory before setting up artillery. Their foot soldiers then proceeded to infiltrate a Hezbollah position, supposed to function as a monitoring and early-warning post, where they carried out a classic guerrilla attack. The fighters eventually took control of the position, killed those in it, and then seized the ammunition and withdrew to the mountains once again as the wounded fled, according to NOW.
Hezbollah later announced that of eight of its members had been killed; most of them from Bekaa areas near the scene of the clash, while Nusra said it had killed 11 Hezbollah members and announced the death of one of its own. The losses to each side are no longer very different, with the former attacker now occupying a defensive position. Salafist fighters have become adept at guerrilla warfare and begun to confront the former master with its own tactics, NOW said.
For a long time Hezbollah trained its fighters for surprise guerilla warfare and defense in small groups. Its activities in resisting Israel were made legend, and the image of fighters taking part in that resistance was romanticized. This attracted young volunteers and earned the reverence of the masses.
NOW says that Hezbollah is living the nightmare it once
inflicted on the Israeli occupation by using small groups of fighters and swift
withdrawals. It is being attacked by small groups, no bigger than two platoons,
or 50 members. They kill, wound and plunder as much as they like before
withdrawing. Worse than that, they film the insides of positions and the TOW
missiles being taken away; something the party was never able to accomplish
against its Israeli enemy,
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