The latest news from Yabroud confirms that the town has fallen in the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s army and Hezbollah Lebanon forces, following a month of fierce resistance by opposition fighters. Naame Shaam’s correspondent near Yabroud has sent the following dispatches explaining how and why that happened. […]
Read more →A short video showing the destruction caused by a Syrian regime air strike on the main market in Yabroud. ) See also this short video showing a barrel bomb being dropped by a regime helicopter on a residential are in Yabroud: ) COMMENT FROM NAAME SHAAM’S CORRESPONDENT […]
Read more →Hezbollah Lebanon’s leader Hasan Nasrallah made a televised speech on 16 February 2014, in which he elaborated on the supposed reasons for the group’s involvement in the Syria war. But what he had to say can only be described as scare-mongering and justifying one crime with another. […]
Read more →As Hezbollah Lebanon started its military campaign in Yabroud, Syria, the group’s official TV channel, Al-Manar, surprised its audience with a war-mongering song entitled “The Victory of Yabroud”. Ali Barakat’s song was broadcast by Al-Manar TV on 16 February 2014, three days after the little-known Lebanese Shia […]
Read more →Hezbollah Lebanon seems to have found a justification for its new military campaign against the Syrian town of Yabroud, and the wider Qalamon region on the Lebanese border. “Yabroud is the main source of the explosive-rigged cars” that have targeted civilian areas in Lebanon (mainly Hezbollah strongholds) […]
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