Evidence mounts of foreigners fighting to help Assad regime
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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