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Evidence mounts of foreigners fighting to help Assad regime


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Free Syrian Army rebels shelter as a missile explodes in a suburb of Damascus Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
  • A fighter from the Sadik unit of Free Syrian Army’s Tahrir al Sham brigade reacts after a missile fired by Syrian air force jet exploded near by during heavy fighting in Mleha suburb of Damascus January 22, 2013
    Free Syrian Army rebels shelter as a missile explodes in a suburb of Damascus Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
Nicholas Blanford Bekaa valley
Last updated at 12:01AM, January 23 2013
Armed with AK47s, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the fighters in the video crouch and open fire as they patrol a war-damaged and abandoned Damascus district. In their camouflage uniforms, there seems to be little at first glance to distinguish them from the regime troops pounding rebel forces in the bloody fight for Syria.
But these men are said to be members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah organisation and Iraqi Shias. In new video footage that underlines the increasingly sectarian nature of the war in Syria, the foreign fighters are shown fighting to defend a prominent Shia shrine

 

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