Back by Hezbollah fighters, the Syrian military retook strategically important areas in the Qalamoun mountains along the Lebanon border, sites they’d lost earlier this week to an al-Qaeda offensive.
Buoyed by victories in the northwest, al-Qaeda led a rebel offensive into the mountain range earlier this week, with thousands of rebel troops quickly overrunning a number of military posts, as well as key Hezbollah bases.
The losses in Qalamoun were seen as a major blow to the Assad government, as well as to Hezbollah, and the two appear to have organized this particularly quick counteroffensive to try to stem the talk of them losing the war outright.
Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah had promised such a counteroffensive only yesterday. Al-Qaeda has been keen to have sites of ingress into Lebanon to target Hezbollah interests there, and the mountains were one of the first major power bases for the rebellion years ago, though they’d long since been retaken.
These so called "rebels" target everything that is considered by Israel as threat or enemy to it colonial ambitions in that region. Never Israel itself gets targetet.
I wonder why…..
This is exactly correct. Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel are close allies. Saudi Arabia brings the shock troops.
"Hezbollah, and the two appear to have organized this particularly quick counteroffensive to try to stem the talk of them losing the war outright". Ditz.
You wish sir!
Did you watch Syria "try to stem the talk of them losing the war outright" by successfully surrounding and cutting off Jisr Al-Shughoor too? The shot down US drone on a gathering intel mission in the area last week didn´t do a good job it seems and now the US/Turkey/Saudi supported Orc´s and their western "advisors" are trapped with no rescue or supply in sight, but that´s perhaps my imagination eh? Ditz? Sorry to disappoint you. really.
It is destined to be a long, hard war. In fact it grows more complicated by the day. For readers interested in a basic discussion of why Hezbollah got involved in the Syrian conflict to begin with, please read a chapter entitled 'What about Syria?' in 'Hezbollah: an Outsider's Inside View,' details at insidehezbollah dot com.