A popular Lebanese website has published an exclusive, eye-opening interview with Hezbollah Lebanon fighters who participated in battles inside Syria.[1] The Lebanon Debate article summarising the interview focuses on the deteriorating relationship between Hezbollah and the Syrian army, but it raises important questions about Hezbollah’s role in […]
Read more →It depends on who is reporting. If it’s Fars News and other Iranian state-controlled media, then it’s obviously “the terrorists”. No need to check or verify. We all know it, don’t we? Well, let’s have a proper look. As part of a truce agreed on at the […]
Read more →European fascists and neo-Nazis have been pouring into Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime forces, which are also supported by Sepah Qods and Hezbollah Lebanon fighters. Where does that leave the latter two, who are supposedly the ‘defenders of Islam and Palestine’ against ‘Western imperialism’ and […]
Read more →In January 2014, Orient TV released a four-part documentary about “Bashar’s Secret Life”.[1] Based on al-Assad’s hacked emails [2] and high-profile interviews with former Syrian officials and politicians from Assad’s inner circle, the documentary paints a picture of the Syrian president as an irrational, irresponsible dictator who […]
Read more →A Syrian opposition website has published hundreds of names and profile pictures of men it claims were Hezbollah Lebanon fighters who died in battle in Syria.[1] To double-check the authenticity of the photos, Naame Shaam chose a random sample from the pictures and tried to verify them […]
Read more →In an interview with the Lebanese Future TV on 5 February 2014, the leader of the main Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmad Jarba, said Hezbollah Lebanon was no different from the criminal extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS). “Hezbollah, ISIS and the Syrian regime […]
Read more →Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was asked during a recent interview with the Swiss daily Neue Zuericher Zeitung about Iran’s support for Hezbollah Lebanon and the latter’s “assistance” to the Syrian government in its military campaign against the opposition militants. His answer was: “Tehran is fully […]
Read more →Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denied on Friday that Iran had any role in sending Hezbollah Lebanon militants to fight in Syria. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: “We are not sending people. Hezbollah has made its own decision.” Mr Zarif […]
Read more →Iranian President Hassan Rohani said on Thursday that “the best solution [in Syria] is organising free and democratic elections.” Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he added: “Nobody can decide the future of Syria from outside… everybody will work together to defeat terrorism.” There […]
Read more →Are Sepah Pasdaran and Hezbollah Lebanon complicit in these crimes? New evidence has surfaced of “systematic torture and mass killing” of Syrian dissidents “on an industrial scale” by Syrian regime forces. A man who used to work as a photographer with the Syrian military police and was […]
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